Nahum Shimkin
Professor
The Joseph & Sadie
Riesman Chair in Electrical Engineering
Viterbi Faculty of Electrical and
Computer Engineering
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Haifa 32000, ISRAEL
Coordinates:
Office: #668,
ECE/Meyer building, Tel. +972-73-378-4734
e-mail: shimkin@ee.technion.ac.il
Topics of Interest:
- Stochastic Control, Markov Decision
Processes
- Reinforcement Learning, Online Learning,
Bandit Processes
- Queueing Systems: Game Theoretic Analysis
and Control
- Trajectory Optimization and Mission
Planning
Editorial and Public Activity (recent):
·
President of ORSIS – Operations Research Society of Israel
(2024– )
·
Dean, The Viterbi Faculty of Electrical and
Computer Engineering (2018-2021)
·
Vice President of ORSIS – Operations Research Society of Israel
(2015–2017 )
·
President of IAAC - Israeli Association for Automatic
Control (2008 –2011)
·
Associate Editor for Mathematics of Operations Research
(2013–2017 )
·
Associate Editor for Dynamic
Games and Applications (2010–2017 )
·
Associate Editor for MCAP: Methodology and
Computing in Applied Probability (2012– 2016)
·
Associate Editor for SICON: Siam Journal on Control and Optimization
(2007 –2010)
·
Organizing Committee Chair: 2015 ORSIS Conference, May
10-11, Haifa.
·
General Chair: Network Games, Control and
Optimization, Trento, October 2014.
Previous Courses with Lecture Notes
- Kalman
Filtering and HMMs:
"Estimation and Identification in Dynamical Systems" (048925), Spring 2016. - Monte Carlo Methods for Computation and
Optimization (Spring 2015)
- Reinforcement
Learning:
"Learning in Complex Systems", 049004, Spring 2011 - Nonlinear Control Systems, 046196
(in Hebrew, 2005)
- Control Systems 1, 044191:
Classical Control (in Hebrew, 2016)
- Control Systems 2, 046192:
State-Space Design (in Hebrew, 2022)
Related Links
- IAAC - Israeli Association
for Automatic Control
- ORSIS – Operations Research Society of
Israel
- Tech.AI – Technion Artificial
Intelligence Hub
- TASP - Technion Autonomous Systems
Center and Graduate Program
- CRML – Technion-ECE Control,
Robotics and Machine Learning Lab