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Voronezh State University,Russia, and Ph.D. degree in Operational Research and Computer Science from the Institute of Economy, Ukrainian Academy of Science, formerly USSR. He has more than 40 years of academic experience and teaching at universities and institutions in Russia and Israel. From 1988 till 1991 he worked as Department Chair and Associate Professor at the Applied Mathematics Department and the Computers Department, Volgograd Civil Engineering Institute, Russia. From 2005 he served as Chair of the Center for Reliability and Risk Management and senior lecturer at the Industrial Engineering and Management Department, SCE-Shamoon College of Engineering, Beer Sheva.



He specializes in applied statistics and reliability with application to preventive maintenance. He is an editor and a member of the editorial board of scientific and professional journals.

He published one book and more than 50 scientific articles and book chapters.









Lev Khvatskin, Ph.D., is a researcher of the Center for Reliability and Risk Management and Senior Lecturer of the Industrial Engineering and Management Department, SCE - Shamoon College of Engineering, Beer Sheva, Israel. Dr. Khvatskin obtained his M.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering and his Ph.D. degree in Reliability Engineering and Inventory Control from the University of Railway Transport, Moscow, Russia.



He specializes in statistical and probabilistic methods in reliability of power and refrigeration equipment, scheduled and unscheduled repair and service, refrigeration, heating and air-conditioning systems.



He published more than 30 scientific articles and book chapters in the fields of reliability, applied statistics and production and operation management.







Anatoly Lisnianski, Ph.D., is Expert-engineer at the Reliability Department of The Israel Electric Corporation Ltd., Israel and Scientific Supervisor of the Center for Reliability and Risk Management, SCE - Shamoon College of Engineering, Beer Sheva, Israel



He received his M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Information Technologies, Precision Mechanics and Optics, Sankt-Petersburg, Russia; and his Ph.D. degree in Reliability in 1984 from the Federal Scientific and Production Center "Aurora" in Saint Petersburg. From 1975 through 1989, he was a researcher at this center. Since 1991 he has worked as an engineering expert at the Reliability Department of the Israel Electric Corporation. He specializes in reliability assessment and optimization for complex technical systems and is the author and co-author of more than 120 journal papers, two books, a number of book chapters, and has patents in the field of reliability and applied statistics. He is a senior member of IEEE and a member of Israel Statistical Association.