Yosi Ben-Dov

Yosi Ben-Dov (Hebrew: יוסי בן-דב‎) is an Israeli manager and university lecturer.

Yosi Ben-Dov
Born (1950-11-09) 9 November 1950
Haifa, Israel
Alma materPhD University of California, Berkeley, 1977
BSc Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1974
The Hebrew Reali School
Spouse(s)Nitza Ben-Dov
Scientific career
InstitutionsThe Hebrew University
Michigan State University
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
ThesisOptimal Testing Procedures for Coherent Systems
Academic advisorsRichard Barlow

Biography

Ben-Dov was born in Haifa, Israel in 1950. He studied at The Hebrew Reali School from 1956 to 1968,[1] and was active at the Israel Boy and Girl Scouts Federation (Tzofim) youth movement. He served the army at a "Nahal" unit, establishing kibbutz and Israeli settlement Mevo Hama at the southern part of the Golan Heights.

Academic Life

Ben-Dov did his undergraduate studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Mathematics, Statistics and Economics. He later joined the PhD program at the Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR) department of the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied from 1973–1977, receiving a Ph.D. in Operations Research in 1977. His thesis, Optimal Testing Procedures for Coherent Systems, was written under the supervision of Prof. Richard E. Barlow.[2] Later Ben-Dov taught at Michigan State University, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Professional career

In 1986 Ben-Dov started working on Wall Street at Prudential Securities as the managing director of the Financial Strategies Group. In 1991 he was the Director of the Rappaport Institute near the Rambam Hospital and in 1995 he joined Amdocs as a Senior Vice President in charge of the Haifa branch in Israel.

In 1999 Ben-Dov became the CEO of Schema, a Wireless Optimization company which was later acquired by TEOCO, and in 2008 became the CEO of Time To Know,[3][4] an education technology company that provided a holistic solution to the K–12 classroom, which included a Digital Teaching Platform together with interactive core curriculum.

Ben-Dov became the principal and managing director of The Hebrew Reali School in Haifa at the beginning of 2014.[5][6] During his tenure he has been involved in a funding dispute with the education ministry.[7][8]

Personal life

Ben-Dov is married to Prof. Nitza Ben-Dov. They have three children: Merav, Michal and Jacob. They live in Haifa, Israel.

Publications
  • Ben-Dov, Yosi (1980). "Optimal reliability design of k-out-of-n systems subject to two kinds of failure". Journal of the Operational Research Society. 31 (8): 743–748. doi:10.1057/jors.1980.137. S2CID 62526234.
  • Ben-Dov, Yosi (1981). "Optimal testing procedures for special structures of coherent systems". Management Science. 27 (12): 1410–1420. doi:10.1287/mnsc.27.12.1410.
  • Ben-Dov, Yosi (1981). "A branch and bound algorithm for minimizing the expected cost of testing coherent systems". European Journal of Operational Research. 7 (3): 284–289. doi:10.1016/0377-2217(81)90350-7.
  • Shilony, Yuval; Ben-Dov, Yosi (1981). "Power and importance in a theory of lobbying". Behavioral Science. 27 (1): 69–76. doi:10.1002/bs.3830270107.
  • Assaf, David; Ben-Dov, Yosi; Krieger, Abba M. (1986). "Optimal design of systems subject to two types of error". Operations Research. 34 (4): 550–553. doi:10.1287/opre.34.4.550.
  • Ben-Dov, Yosi; Hayre, Lakhbir; Pica, Vincent (1992). "Mortgage valuation models at Prudential Securities". Interfaces. 22 (1): 55–71. doi:10.1287/inte.22.1.55.

References
  1. רשימת בוגרי מחזור מט (1968) – לפי שם בעת סיום הלימודים. "בוגרים לפי מחזורים". Bogrim.reali.org.il. Retrieved 23 March 2014.
  2. Yosi Ben-Dov at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. "The Interviewees - Israel Inside The Movie". www.israelinsidethemovie.com.
  4. "הסטארט-אפ הסודי שרוצה לשנות את החינוך בעולם". themarker.com. 3 November 2009.
  5. "The Elite Israeli School Where 300 Graduates Have Died Fighting For The Jewish State".
  6. "דר יוסי בן דב, הוא המנכל המיועד לבית הספר הריאלי - גפן מגזין המושבות". www.magazin.org.il.
  7. "הריאלי ייסגר? מאות תלמידים מפגינים מול העליון".
  8. "שכר הלימוד בריאלי לא יעלה משמעותית". March 2017.
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