Benjamin Lev
Benjamin Lev | |
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בנימין לב | |
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| Born | December 24, 1942 |
| Citizenship | USA, Israel |
| Alma mater | Case Western Reserve University; Technion-Israel Institute of Technology |
| Known for | Former (2002-2025) Editor-In-Chief, OMEGA - The International Journal of Management Science.
Co-Editor-In-Chief, International Journal of Management Science and Engineering Management Former Book Review Editor, Journal on Applied Analytics (23 years, 700 book reviews). Former Associate Editor Journal of Operations Research; IIE Transactions; International Abstracts of Operations Research. Associate Editor Operations Research Perspective; Financial Innovation; OPSEARCH; Journal of Data; Information and management; IJAA. |
| Spouse | Dorota "Debbie" Lev (1945-2016) |
| Children | 2 |
| Awards | INFORMS Senior Fellow (2003) |
| Website | www.OmegaJournal.org |
Benjamin Lev (Hebrew: בנימין לב; born December 24, 1942)[1] is an American-Israeli professor and former University Trustee Professor of Decision Sciences and Management Information Systems Department at Drexel University.[2] He has been a prolific author and has made significant contributions in Operations Research and Management Science. He has contributed to the areas of inventory control, mathematical programming, and operations planning and scheduling. He is well known for his developments of Inventory Control Models, Transportation Problems, DEA and Fuzzy Decision Analyses.
His present editorial positions include the former (2002-2025) Editor-In-Chief of OMEGA - The International Journal of Management Science[3] and the Co-Editor-In-Chief of International Journal of Management Science and Engineering Management.[4]
Education
[edit | edit source]Lev received his PhD. in Operations Research from Case Western Reserve University. He has M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering and B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
Academic career
[edit | edit source]Lev is a professor and former Head of Decision Sciences Department at Drexel University since 2009. From 1990 to 2009 he served as the Dean of the School of Management, the Chair of Department of Management Studies, Professor and an Emeritus Professor at University of Michigan–Dearborn. From 1987 to 1990 he served as the Head of The Management Department at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester MA, and from 1970 to 1987 he served as the Chair of Management Department and a professor at Temple University.
He is holding or has held a series of short faculty appointments at several universities as visiting professor, honorary professor, or adjunct professor: Wharton School (spring 1986), Tel-Aviv University (1974–75), San Jose State University (summer 1987), Tianjin University (summer 1986), Beijing Jiaotong University (2017–20), Chengdu University (2017–20), Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (2018–20), Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (2018–), Nanjing Audit University (2018–) and Xidian University (2019-)[5]
Honors and awards
[edit | edit source]- Biographical sketch in Young Scientists in Israel, pp. 148‑156, Remba, Rubin Mass, 1971.
- Intergovernmental Professional Act (IPA), Dept. of Energy, Washington, D.C., 1978.
- Trustee Professor, Drexel University, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, USA 2014-2021.
Books
[edit | edit source]Co-author and co-editor of these books:
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References
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- Living people
- Drexel University faculty
- Case Western Reserve University alumni
- Technion – Israel Institute of Technology alumni
- 21st-century American writers
- University of Michigan–Dearborn people
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute faculty
- Temple University faculty
- American editors
- San Jose State University faculty
- Jewish educators
- Israeli emigrants to the United States
- 1942 births
- Jews from Mandatory Palestine