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

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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

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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