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Gregory Levitin

Ph. Doctor

 

Scientific societies

IEEE senior member,
Operations Research Society of Israel,
 

Academic degrees

1986-1989: MOSCOW RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF METALWORKING MACHINES, RUSSIA.
Ph. D. in Automation and Industrial Control Systems.

1984-1986: KHARKOV STATE UNIVERSITY, UKRAINE.
B.Sc. in Mathematics.

1976-1982: KHARKOV STATE POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY, UKRAINE.
M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (diploma with honors).
 

Professional experience

1993-present time: THE ISRAEL ELECTRIC CORPORATION LTD. PLANNING, DEVELOPMENT & TECHNOLOGY DIVISION. RELIABILITY & EQUIPMENT DEPARTMENT.
Engineer-Expert; OR and Artificial Intelligence applications in Power Engineering, Reliability.

1993-present time: TECHNION - ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY.

Adjunct senior lecturer.

1991-1993: TECHNION - ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY.
Postdoctoral researcher; Optimization algorithms for production planning.

1989-1990, 1985-1986: HYDRAULICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, KHARKOV, UKRAINE.
Senior research associate; CAD software development , multi-objective optimization of hydraulic systems.

1986-1989: MOSCOW RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF METALWORKING MACHINES.
Post-graduate student; Algorithms for computerized analysis of dynamic systems.

1982-1985: KHARKOV RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION, UKRAINE.
Software engineer; Software for metalworking CNC systems, algorithms for optimal manufacturing process planning.
 

Personal data:

Date of Birth: 19/09/1959.
Date of Aliah: 13/12/1990.
Marital Status: Married+1.
Languages: Hebrew, English, Russian.
 

Publications:
1 book, 1 chapter in a handbook, more than 80 papers, 7 patents (Russia).
 

Awards:

2000: London Electricity Innovation Challenge. Second Prize.
 

Organizational activity:

Member of editorial board of "Reliability Engineering & System Safety".
Guest editor of special issue of International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering (Vol. 10, No. 3, No. 4, 2003)
Organizer of special sessions on Multi-state reliability at MMR2002, MMR2004.

Major Publications: 

Books and chapters:

  1. Universal generating function in reliability analysis and optimization, G. Levitin, Springer-Verlag, 2005.
    Multi-state system reliability. Assessment, optimization and applications, A. Lisnianski, G. Levitin, World Scientific, 2003.

  2. Multi-state system reliability analysis and optimization (universal generating function and genetic algorithm approach), G. Levitin, A. Lisnianski, in Reliability Engineering Handbook, H. Pham (Ed.), Springer, 2003.

  3. Reliability of Multi-State Systems: A Historical Overview, G. Levitin, A. Lisnianski, I. Ushakov, in Mathematical and statistical methods in reliability, Lindqvist, Doksum (Eds.), World Scientific, 2003.

Papers in referred journals:

  1. Reliability of linear multi-state multiple sliding window systems, G. Levitin, Naval Research Logistics 52(3) pp.212-223 (2005).

  2. Estimation of the importance measures of multi-state elements by Monte Carlo simulation, E. Zio, L. Podofillini, G. Levitin, Reliability Engineering & System Safety, vol.86/3, pp.191-204 (2004)

  3. Survivability of series-parallel systems with multilevel protection, E. Korczak, G. Levitin, H. Ben Haim, Reliability Engineering & System Safety, vol.90/1, pp.45-54 (2005).

  4. Optimal structure of fault-tolerant software systems, G. Levitin, Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 89(3) pp.286-295 (2005).

  5. Weighted voting systems: reliability versus rapidity, G. Levitin, Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 89(2) pp.177-184 (2005).

  6. Optimal version sequencing in fault-tolerant programs, G. Levitin, Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research, 22(1) pp. 1-18 (2005).

  7. A Genetic algorithm for robotic assembly line balancing, G. Levitin, J. Rubinovitz, B. Shnits, to appear in European Journal of Operational Research.

  8. Reliability and performance analysis for fault-tolerant programs consisting of versions with different characteristics, G. Levitin, Reliability Engineering & System Safety, vol. 86/1 pp. 75-81 (2004).

  9. A universal generating function approach for analysis of multi-state systems with dependent elements, G. Levitin, Reliability Engineering & System Safety, vol. 84/3, pp. 285-292, (2004).

  10. Uneven allocation of elements in linear multi-state sliding window system, G. Levitin, European Journal of Operational Research, vol. 163, pp.418-433, (2004).

  11. Maximizing survivability of vulnerable weighted voting systems, G. Levitin, Reliability Engineering & System Safety, vol. 83, pp.17-26, (2003).

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