Draft:Boaz Golany

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Boaz Golany (born 1956; Hebrew: בועז גולני) is an Israeli Operations Research and Management Science (ORMS) scholar. He is a professor emeritus at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.

He served as Dean of the Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Vice President for External Relations and Resource Development, and Executive Vice President and Director General of the Technion.

Golany's research focuses on production and operations management, resource allocation, efficiency and effectiveness analysis and other related fields.

Early life and education

Golany was born in Tiberias. The family later settled in Haifa. He studied at Hareali High School and served in the IDF's Armor Corps.

Golany received a B.Sc. (Cum Laude) from the Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management of the Technion (later renamed the Faculty of Data and Decision Sciences) in 1982. He received a Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin in 1985.

Golany authored the thesis On Chance Constrained, Competitive and Cooperative Evaluational Methods in Some Problems of Dynamic Management under the supervision of Prof. Abraham Charnes.

Academic career

Golany joined the Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management of the Technion in 1986. He became a full professor in 2004 and holder of the Samuel Gorney Chair in Engineering in 2005.

Golany held several leadership positions at the Technion, including Dean of the Industrial Engineering and Management Faculty (2006-2011), Vice President for External Relations & Resource Development (2012-2019) and Executive Vice President and Director General (2019-2022).

Golany was also a Senior Research Fellow at the IC2 Institute of the University of Texas at Austin and a Senior Fellow at the Center for Management of Operations and Logistics at the same university.

In 2024, he retired as an emeritus professor. In the same year, he also became a Senior Research Fellow at the Samuel Neaman Institute at the Technion. Over the course of his career, Golany has mentored more than 40 M.Sc., Ph.D, and postdoctoral students and researchers.

Research

Golany's publications focus on Industrial Engineering, Operations Research and Management Science. His later research also addressed issues in counterterrorism and Homeland security.

Golany has published over 150 articles in scientific journals and 15 book chapters. He also co-edited a book and authored two patents. He has served as an associate editor of Operations Research, OMEGA – The International Journal of Management Science and the Journal of Productivity Analysis.

Professional experience

Golany has served as a consultant to various companies and agencies in several sectors: transportation, education, energy, finance, and defense. He has also served on the boards of several companies and institutions, including Plasan, Rafael - Advanced Defense Systems; the Technion R&D Foundation; the Jacobs Technion Cornell Institute (a joint venture between Technion and Cornell) and the Guangdong Technion Israel Institute of Technology (a joint venture between the Technion and the University of Shantou in China).

Selected scientific publications

• Charnes, A., C.T. Clark, W.W. Cooper and B. Golany, "A Developmental Study of Data Envelopment Analysis in Measuring the Efficiency of Maintenance Units in the US Air Force," Annals of Operations Research, Vol. 2, pp. 95-112, 1984.
• Charnes, A., W.W. Cooper, B. Golany, L.M. Seiford and J. Stutz, "Foundations of Data Envelopment Analysis for Pareto-Koopmans Efficient Empirical Production Functions," Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 30, pp. 91-107, 1985
• Golany, B. and Y. Roll, "An Application Procedure for DEA," OMEGA, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 237-250, 1989. Mathematical Programming for Industrial Engineers, eds. M. Avriel and B. Golany, Marcel-Dekker Inc., (637 pages), 1996.
• Adler, N. and B. Golany, "Evaluation of Deregulated Airline Networks Using Data Envelopment Analysis Combined with Principal Component Analysis with an Application to Western Europe," European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 132, No. 2, 260-273, 2001
• Ben-Tal, A., B. Golany, A. Nemirovski and J.P. Vial, "Supplier-Retailer Flexible Commitment Contracts: A Robust Optimization Approach," Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Vol. 7, No. 3, pp.248-271, 2005.
• Fine, C.H., B. Golany and H. Naseraldin, "Modeling Tradeoffs in Concurrent Product, Process and Supply Chain Design." Journal of Operations Management, Vol. 23, pp. 389-403, 2005.
• Eilat, H., B. Golany and A. Shtub, "R&D Project Evaluation: An Integrated DEA and Balanced Scorecard Approach", Omega, Vol. 36, pp. 895-912, 2008.
• Deutsch, Y. and B. Golany. "A Parcel Locker Network as a Solution to the Logistics Last Mile Problem", International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 56, No.1-2, pp. 251-261, 2018.

Honors and awards

Golany was awarded the Yigal Alon Fellowship from the Israeli Education Ministry, the Naor Prize and the Levy Award from the Israeli Operations Research Society. In 2022 he received the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers' Distinguished Achievement Award.