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Yaniv Mordecai, M.Sc.,

Ph.D. Candidate at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Product Manager at Microsoft Israel Development Center – Herzeliya, Israel

Citizenship: Israel

Date and place of birth: Dec. 7, 1980, Israel

Marital status: Married+2

Contact:

ACADEMIC DEGREES

Currently / Ph.D. Candidate, Information Management Engineering, (exp. completion 2016)
Faculty of Industrial Engineering & Management, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Advisor: Prof.
2010 / M.Sc. (cum laude), IndustrialEngineering
Faculty of Engineering,Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Advisor: Prof. Yigal
2002 / B.Sc.IndustrialEngineering, Major: Information Systems.
Faculty of Engineering Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

2013 / Teaching Assistant, Information System Analysis and Specification Course,
Faculty of Industrial Engineering & Management, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
2011 / Research Assistant, Faculty of Engineering Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Systems Engineering, Conceptual Modeling, Software Engineering, Requirements Engineering
  • Conceptual Modeling Languages: Object-Process Methodology, Unified Modeling Language (UML), Systems Modeling Language (SysML)
  • Command, Control, Communication, Computers & Intelligence (C4I), Network-Centric Operations, Interconnectivity & Interoperability, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Agent-Oriented Architecture
  • Risk Management, Risk Analysis, Model-Based Risk Analysis, Model-Based Risk-Oriented Systems Engineering
  • Decision Making, Decision Analysis, Decision Automation, Quantitative-Conceptual Modeling.

HONORS, AWARDS, GRANTS

2015 / Israel Ministry of Science and Technology: Travel Grant for leading a workshop on Model-Based Cyber-Physical Risk Analysis, Pennsylvania State University, Philadelphia PA, USA.
2014 / IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics (SMC) Society: Travel Grant,IEEE Int. Conf. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2014), San Diego CA, USA.
2014 / IEEE Computer Society Israel Chapter: Best Paper Award for “Modeling Software Agent Awareness of Physical-Informatical Essence Duality”, IEEE CS Int. Conf. on Software Science, Technology and Engineering SWSTE-2014, Ramat Gan, Israel, June-2014.
2014 / Israel Ministry of Science and Technology: Travel Grant for leading a workshop on Model-Based Risk Oriented Systems Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA, USA.
2013 / Society for Risk Analysis: Travel Grant,SRA 2013 Annual Meeting, Baltimore MA, USA.
2013 / BirminghamCity Univ.: Joint research on Conceptual Modeling in Cyber-Physical Systems, ManchesterUK
2013 / IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics (SMC) Society: Travel Grant,IEEE Int. Conf. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2013), Manchester, UK.
2013 / Technion-Cornell Innovation Institution (TCII): Workshop on Situation-Based Patient Data Privacy Management for Mobile Health Technology, Weill-Cornell Medical College, NYC, NY, USA (collaborative)
2013 / The 7th EU Program – VISIONAIR: A Model-Based Unified Project-Product Framework (collaborative)
2012 / Society for Risk Analysis (SRA): Travel Grant, 3rdWorld Congress on Risk, Sydney, Australia.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2014- / Microsoft Israel Development Center – Identity and Access Management – Product Manager.
2011-2014 / Elbit Systems – Elisra – Ballistic Missile Defense program – C4I system engineer.
2011 / Israel Aerospace Industry (IAI) – ELTA –Visual intelligence (VisInt)system spec engineer.
2009-2011 / Taldor IT – IDF SOA-based interoperability program – senior sys. eng.consultant
2002-2009 / Israel Air Force (IAF) – Technological Directorate – Airborne C4I project manager and system engineer, IS team-leader, business intelligence analyst, and Project Management CoE(Captain)

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

International Journals – Manuscript Reviewer

2012- / INCOSE Systems Engineering Journal
2012- / IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics

Seminarsand Tutorials

April, 2015 / Model-Based Risk Analysis for Cyber Physical Systems, PSU, PhiladelphiaPA, USA.
Collocated with the Council of Engineering Systems Universities – CESUN 2015 Annual Meeting.
May, 2014 / Model-Based Risk Oriented Systems Engineering, MIT, Cambridge MA, USA.

Workshops

July, 2013 / Technion-CornellJoint Workshop on Situation-Based Patient Data Privacy Management for Mobile Health Technology, Weill-Cornell Medical College, NYC, NY, USA
June, 2012 / Systems Engineering Body-of-Knowledge workshop, Philadelphia PA, USA.

PUBLICATIONS

Theses

  1. Mordecai Y. (2010), Project Risk Optimization Based On Strategy Proof Risk Assessment, M.Sc. Thesis Dissertation, Tel Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel, June-2010. Advisor: Prof. Y Gerchak.

Papers in Refereed Journals

  1. Mordecai Y & Dori D (2013), Model-Based Risk-Oriented Robust Systems Design with Object-Process Methodology, Int. J. of Strategic Engineering Asset Management IJSEAM, vol. 1, no. 4, 2013

Refereed Papers in Conference Proceedings

  1. Mordecai Y & Dori D (2015), Agile Modeling of an Evolving Ballistic Missile Defense System with Object-Process Methodology, 9th Annual IEEE International Systems Conference – SysCon 2015, Vancouver BC, Canada, April-2015 (accepted).
  2. Mordecai Y & Dori D (2014), Model-Based Protocol Engineering: Specifying Kerberos with Object-Process Methodology, 2014 IEEE 28th Convention of Electrical & Electronics Engineers in Israel (IEEEI 2014), Eilat, Israel, Dec-2014.
  3. Mordecai Y, Somekh J & Dori D (2014), Presence Awareness: A Conceptual Model-Based Systems Biology Approach, IEEE Int. Conf. on Systems, Man & Cybernetics SMC-2014, San-Diego CA, USA, Oct-2014.
  4. Mordecai Y & Dori D (2014), Conceptual Modeling of System-Based Decision-Making, 24th Int.Symp.of the International Council on Systems Engineering INCOSE IS-2014, Las-Vegas, NV, USA, June-2014.
  5. Mordecai Y, Orhof ODori D (2014), Modeling Software Agent Awareness of Physical-Informatical Essence Duality, IEEE Int. Conf. on Software Science, Technology and Engineering SWSTE-2014, Ramat Gan, Israel, June-2014.
  6. Mordecai Y, Raju P, Chapman C & Dori D (2013), Physical-Informatical Essence-Duality-Aware Generic Modeling of Threat Handling Processes,IEEE European Modeling Symp.EMS-2013, Manchester UK, Nov-2013.
  7. Mordecai Y, Chapman C Dori D (2013), Conceptual Modeling Semantics for the Physical-Informatical Essence Duality Problem,IEEE Int. Conf. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics SMC-2013, Manchester, UK, Oct-2013.
  8. Mordecai Y & Dori D (2013), I5: A Model-Based Framework for Architecting System-of-Systems Interoperability, Interconnectivity, Interfacing, Integration, and Interaction, 23rd Int.Symp.of the International Council on Systems Engineering INCOSE IS-2013, Philadelphia, PA, USA, June-2013.
  9. Mordecai Y & Dori D (2012), Risk Oriented Systems Engineering,3rd International Engineering Systems Symposium of the Council of Engineering Systems UniversitiesCESUN-2012, Delft, The Netherlands, June-2012.
  10. Mordecai Y & Dori D (2012), Streamlining Product Lifecycle Risk Management through an OPM-Based Risk Modeling Framework,17th Industrial Eng. and Management Conf.IE&M-2012, Tel-Aviv, Israel, March-2012.
  11. Mordecai Y & Gerchak Y (2011), Strategy-Proof Method for Group Assessment of Probability Distributions in Risk Analysis,2ndSymp. on Games and Decisions in Risk and Reliability GDRR-2011, Belgirate, Italy, May-2011.
  12. Mordecai Y, Focsenianu N & Elzon R (2011), Throughput Rate Control in Central Interconnectivity Systems,6th Int.Conf. on Systems Engineering INCOSE_IL-2011, Herzliyya, Israel, March-2011.
  13. Mordecai Y & Gerchak Y (2010), Risk Optimization in Project Management,16th Industrial Eng. and Management Conf.IE&M-2010, Tel-Aviv, Israel, March-2012.

Articles and Reports

  1. Mordecai Y & Dori D (2013), Integrating Supporting Aspects Into System Models,Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge SEBoK V1.2, Nov-2013.

Conference Talks

  1. Mordecai Y & Dori D (2015), Model-Based Configuration Management of Constantly Evolving Systems, INCOSE_IL 2015 - 8th International Conference for Systems Engineering of the Israeli Society for Systems Engineering, Herzeliya, Israel, March-2015 (accepted).
  2. Mordecai Y & Dori D (2014), Essence Duality Awareness in Information System Interaction with Physical and Cyber Environments,18th Industrial Eng. and Management Conf. IE&M-2014, Tel-Aviv, Israel, March-2014.
  3. Mordecai Y & Dori D (2014), Towards model-based incorporation of automated decision-making into cyber-physical information systems, 18thInd. Eng. and Management Conf. IE&M-2014, Tel-Aviv, Israel, March-2014.
  4. Mordecai Y & Dori D (2012), Migrating from Project Risk Management to Operational Risk Management,3rd World Congress on Risk of the Society for Risk Analysis SRA-2012, Sydney, Australia, July-2012
  5. Mordecai Y (2012), Interface Driven Risk Modeling,An. Conf. of the Israeli Chamber of Information Systems Analysts, Ramat-Gan, Israel, March-2012
  6. Mordecai Y & Gerchak Y (2010), Strategy-Proof Risk Assessment,An. Conf.of the Operations Research Society in Israel ORSIS-2010, Haifa, Israel, June-2010
  7. Mordecai Y (2010), Bias in Risk Assessment,An. Conf. of the Project Management Institute Israel ChapterPMI-2010, Tel-Aviv, Israel, May-2010

PENDING PUBLICATIONS

  1. Mordecai Y, Orhof Y & Dori D (2015), A Conceptual Modeling Framework for Interconnectivity and Interoperability, submitted toIEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems (under revision).

Languages

  • Hebrew – mother tongue.
  • English– mother tongue level (reading, writing, and speaking).

Hobbies

  • Diving (certified Rescue Diver with over 60 dives), trekking (e.g., Israel National Trail), long runs, ski, reading.