Gideon Weiss joined the Department of Statistics in 1994, and retired in 2012.  He studied  at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem,  the Technion, Haifa, and obtained  his Ph.D.  at Imperial College London with Professor Sir David R. Cox.  He has previously been on  the faculty of the Technion Israel, Georgia Tech Atlanta, and Tel Aviv University, and has visited Stanford, MIT,  Berkeley.  His research has been funded consecutively for the past 35 years by the NSF,  BSF (Binational US Israel Science Foundation),  GIF (German Israel Fund) and  ISF (Israel Science Foundation).  He is the author of more than 80 scientific papers, and has served on editorial boards of Operations Research, Queueing Systems,  Probability in Engineering and Information Sciences, and Journal of Scheduling.   

• optimization: continuous linear programming;
• applied probability: control of queueing networks with applications to manufacturing, traffic control, communications and supply chain management. 

• Structure of Solution for a Continuous Linear Programs with Constant Coefficients (with Evgeny Shindin), SIAM J on Optimization 25(3):1276-1297, 2015.
• Four proofs of Gittins’ multiarmed bandit theorem (with Esther Frostig), Annals of Operations Research pre publication online.
• A queue with skill based service under FCFS-ALIS: steady state, overloaded system, and behavior under abandonments (with Ivo Adan),  Stochastic Systems 4(1):250–299, 2014.
• Symmetric strong Duality for a Class of Continuous Linear Programs with Constant Coefficients (with Evgeny Shindin), SIAM J on Optimization 24(3):1102–1121, 2014.
• Exact FCFS matching rates for two infinite multi-type sequences (with I. Adan) Operations Research, 60:475–489, 2012.
• Near optimal control of queueing networks over a finite time horizon (with Y. Nazarathy), Annals of Operations Research 170:233–249, 2009.
• A simplex based algorithm to solve separated continuous linear programs, Mathematical Programming, Series A 115:151-198, 2008.
• Stability and Instability of Fluid Models for certain Re-Entrant Lines (with J. Dai), Mathematics of Operations Research 21, 115–134, 1996.
• On an index policy for restless Bandits  (with R.R. Weber), J. Appl. Probab. 27, pp. 637–648, 1990.
• Shot noise models for the generation of synthetic streamflow data, Water Resources Research, 13, pp. 101–108, 1977.
• Time reversibility of linear stochastic processes, J. Appl. Probab.,12, pp. 831–836, 1975.