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Maxim Finkelstein

Doctor of Science, Professor

 

Academic qualifications:

  • Diploma at the Department of Mathematical Physics. Leningrad State University, USSR,
    1971.

  • Ph.D in OR (mathematical theory of reliability) from Leningrad Elektropribor Institute, 1979.

  • Doctor of Science (habilitation) in OR (mathematical theory of reliability) from St.-Petersburg Elektropribor Institute and the Highest Certifying Committee of Russia, 1993.

Occupational experience:

  • Professor at the Department of Mathematical Statistics, University of the Free State, Republic of South Africa since July 1998.

  • Researcher, Senior Researcher, Principle Researcher at St.-Petersburg Elektropribor Institute (1971-1998), Russia.

  • Associate Professor at the Department of Applied Mathematics, Leningrad Technological Institute, 1980-1986 (part time).

  • Visiting researcher-consultant at the Institute for Maritime Technology, Republic of South Africa, August-December 1996, October-December 1997.

  • Visiting researcher at Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, July-December 2003, July-December 2004, July-August 2005.

Recent awards:

  • The Sichel medal (2004) awarded by the South African Statistical Association for the best 2003 publication.

  • The medal for Research Excellence (2004) from the University of the Free State.

Editorial activities:

  • Associate editor of ‘The South African Statistical Journal”.

  • Member of the Editorial Board of the journal: Journal of Risk and Reliability Member of the Editorial Board of the journal: Stochastic Models in Business and Industry.

  • Member of the Editorial Board of the journal: The International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering.

  • Member of the Editorial Board (reliability and statistics) of the journal: Navigation and Gyroscopic Technique (Russia).

  • Corresponding editor of “The Institute of Mathematical Statistics Bulletin” (1994-2000).

  • Guest editor of the special issue on reliability of the journal: Stochastic Models in Business and Industry (2004)

Fields of research:

  • Reliability theory of complex systems, models of repair and maintenance, survival
    analysis, risk and safety modeling, applied stochastic processes, stochastic aging,
    stochastic ordering, stochastics in demography.

  • Employment record

Publications:
 

The list of publications in a complete form includes 142 papers and 4 books.

 

2006

  1. Asymptotic behaviour of a general class of mixture failure rates (with V. Esaulova).
    Advances in Applied Probability, 38, 244-262.

  2. On relative ordering of mean residual lifetime functions. Statistics and Probability
    Letters, 76, 939-944, doi:10.1016/j.spl.2005.10.027

  3. The relative tail of longevity and the mean remaining lifetime (with J. Vaupel). Demographic Research, 14/6, 111-138. http://www.demographic-research.org/Volumes/Vol14/7/14-7.pdf

  4. Failure rates in heterogeneous populations (with V. Esaulova) In: Handbook of Engineering Statistics, Springer.

  5. Mixture failure rate ordering (with V. Esaulova) Communications in Statistics, Theory and Methods, 35 (accepted).

  6. On statistical and information based virtual age of degrading systems. Reliability Engineering and System Safety (accepted).

  7. On various shock models. Reliability Engineering and System Safety (accepted).

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