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Yaron A. Felus
Felus in 2023
Born1968 (age 57–58)
Holon, Israel
EducationBen-Gurion University of the Negev (B.Sc.)
ITC, University of Twente (M.Sc.)
Ohio State University (Ph.D.)
AwardsTechnion outstanding lecturer (2014)
Scientific career
FieldsData science, Geoinformatics, Geodesy, Spatial statistics
WorkplacesIsrael Central Bureau of Statistics
Survey of Israel
Ariel University
Ferris State University
Thesis New Methods for Spatial Statistics in Geographic Information Systems  (2001)
Alan Saalfeld
Burkhard Schaffrin

Yaron A. Felus (born 1968) is an Israeli data scientist and geodesist who has served as national statistician of Israel and head of the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) since April 2023.[1][2] He is an associate professor at Ariel University and was chief scientist of the Survey of Israel from 2012 to 2021.[3]

Early life and education

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Felus was born in Holon in 1968.[4] He earned a B.Sc. in electrical and computer engineering at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev through the IDF academic reserve program,[4] and served in the Israel Defense Forces as an officer in the C4I Corps.[1] He completed a master's degree in geoinformation at the ITC research center of the University of Twente in the Netherlands and qualified as a licensed surveyor at the Technion.[4]

In 1998 he began doctoral studies at Ohio State University. There he worked at the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center on a National Science Foundation project to build a geospatial database of West Antarctica, and took part in a field expedition to the South Pole.[4][5] He received his Ph.D. in 2001; his dissertation was supervised by Alan Saalfeld and Burkhard Schaffrin.[6]

Career

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Felus worked as an associate professor, consultant and research project manager at Ferris State University in Michigan,[7][8] and for several years served as a senior adjunct faculty member in the geoinformation unit of the Technion's Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering.[7] He carried out a research project with the University of Mississippi for NASA on developing a course and methods for collecting and processing topographic data.[4] He was listed among the outstanding lecturers of the Technion's Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering in 2014.[9] He is a member of the Wexner Foundation Senior Leadership Network (class of 2015)[10] and completed a digital leadership program at Harvard University in 2016 and 2017.[4] Before his appointment as national statistician he was CEO of the technology incubator Visint Labs and a consultant to the Israel Land Authority.[7][11]

Survey of Israel

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From 2012 to 2021 Felus was chief scientist and head of the research and development division of the Survey of Israel.[3] The post involves guiding research, development and standardization in geodesy, cadastre and geoinformation, assisting in drafting surveyors' regulations and professional guidelines, and promoting cooperation between government bodies.[12] In 2018 Globes reported on the government's real-estate database improvement, on which the Survey worked with the Israel Tax Authority, and quoted Felus on the state of the data before 2013.[13] He described the national real-estate database project, which began with Government Decision 374 of June 2013, and the accompanying geospatial portal in a 2021 article.[14] According to the CBS, he also advanced an amendment to the Land Law (three-dimensional parcels, 2018), the Survey Regulations (Surveying and Mapping) of 2016, and more than 60 professional guideline documents.[4]

He co-authored papers describing the TopoCad system, which unified the Survey's databases into a single online platform,[15] and the regulation of geo-information,[16] and quality control for crowdsourced topographic maps.[17] He was one of the authors of a 2019 International Federation of Surveyors publication on crowdsourcing and volunteered geographic information.[18]

Ariel University

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Felus is an associate professor and head of the surveying and geoinformation track in the Department of Civil Engineering at Ariel University.[3][4][11]

National Statistician

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The post of national statistician had been without a permanent holder for over a year since the retirement of Danny Pfeffermann when Felus was selected unanimously by a search committee set up by the Prime Minister's Office in April 2023.[1] The cabinet approved the appointment later that month.[2]

In July 2024 the CBS launched an interactive dashboard for the 2022 Population and Housing Census. It was developed with Google technologies and the company Jutomate, runs on the government cloud Nimbus, and is available through the government open-data site and the national maps portal, with a map application developed together with the Survey of Israel.[19]

Research

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Felus's research covers total least squares methods for geospatial adjustment and spatial interpolation. With Burkhard Schaffrin he applied total least squares to errors-in-variables models in geomatics, addressing coordinate transformation, cadastral map enhancement and geodetic adjustment.[20] He also developed a Delaunay triangulation-structured Kriging method for spatial interpolation in geographic information systems.[21]

Selected publications

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  • Felus, Y. A. (2004). "Application of Total Least Squares for Spatial Point Process Analysis". Journal of Surveying Engineering. 130 (3): 126–133. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9453(2004)130:3(126).
  • Felus, Y. A. (2006). "On Linear Transformations of Spatial Data Using the Structured Total Least Norm Principle". Cartography and Geographic Information Science. 33 (3): 195–205. doi:10.1559/152304006779077273.
  • Felus, Y. A. (2007). "On the Positional Enhancement of Digital Cadastral Maps". Survey Review. 39 (306): 268–281. doi:10.1179/175227007X197183.
  • Schaffrin, B.; Felus, Y. A. (2009). "An Algorithmic Approach to the Total Least-Squares Problem with Linear and Quadratic Constraints". Studia Geophysica et Geodaetica. 53 (1): 1–16. doi:10.1007/s11200-009-0001-2.
  • Felus, Y. A.; Burtch, R. C. (2009). "On Symmetrical Three-Dimensional Datum Conversion". GPS Solutions. 13 (1): 65–74. doi:10.1007/s10291-008-0100-5.
  • Schaffrin, B.; Bae, T.-S.; Felus, Y. (2018). "Optimal Biased Kriging: Homeogram Tapering and Applications to Geoid Undulations in Korea". Journal of Geodetic Science. 8: 154–161. doi:10.1515/jogs-2018-2016.

References

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  1. 1 2 3 "After controversy, Yaron Felus chosen as next chief of Central Bureau of Statistics". The Times of Israel. 2023-04-18. Retrieved 2026-09-24.
  2. 1 2 "Cabinet approves appointment of new Central Bureau of Statistics head". The Times of Israel. 2023-04-30. Retrieved 2026-09-24.
  3. 1 2 3 "פרופסור ירון פלוס נבחר לתפקיד ראש הלשכה המרכזית לסטטיסטיקה" [Professor Yaron Felus chosen as head of the Central Bureau of Statistics]. Ynet (in Hebrew). 2023-04-18. Retrieved 2026-09-24.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "הסטטיסטיקן הלאומי המכהן" [The incumbent National Statistician] (in Hebrew). Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 2026-09-24.
  5. ↑ Felus, Y. A. (2000). "Multi-source DEM evaluation and integration at the Antarctica Transantarctic Mountains project" (PDF). Proceedings of the ISPRS Congress. Vol. XXXIII. p. 117.
  6. ↑ Felus, Yaron A. (2001). New methods for spatial statistics in geographic information systems (Ph.D. dissertation). Ohio State University.
  7. 1 2 3 "רשמי: פרופסור ירון פלוס נבחר לתפקיד ראש הלמ"ס" [Official: Professor Yaron Felus chosen as head of the CBS]. Israel Hayom (in Hebrew). 2023-04-18. Retrieved 2026-09-24.
  8. ↑ Felus, Y. A.; Burtch, R. C. (2009). "On symmetrical three-dimensional datum conversion". GPS Solutions. 13 (1): 65–74. doi:10.1007/s10291-008-0100-5.
  9. ↑ "פרסים" [Awards]. מגזין הטכניון [Technion Magazine] (in Hebrew). Summer 2014. p. 30. Retrieved 2026-09-24.
  10. ↑ "הבוגרים שלנו" [Our alumni] (in Hebrew). Wexner Foundation Israel. Retrieved 2026-09-24.
  11. 1 2 "Prof. Yaron Felus named head of Israel Central Bureau of Statistics". The Jerusalem Post. 2023-04-30. Retrieved 2026-09-24.
  12. ↑ "פרופ' ירון פלוס" [Prof. Yaron Felus] (in Hebrew). Survey of Israel. Retrieved 2026-09-24.
  13. ↑ Hodi, Uri (2018-04-22). ""עלינו מ-50% ל-70% אמינות" - המהפך במיפוי הנדל"ן בישראל" ["We rose from 50% to 70% reliability": the revolution in real-estate mapping in Israel]. Globes (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2026-09-24.
  14. ↑ Felus, Yaron (2021). "Creating a Smart Nation: the Geospatial Approach". GIM International (2).
  15. ↑ Felus, Y. A.; Sagi, Y.; Regev, R.; Keinan, E. (2013). "TopoCad – A unified system for geospatial data and services". The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences. XL-7/W2: 93–97. doi:10.5194/isprsarchives-XL-7-W2-93-2013.
  16. ↑ Felus, Y.; Keinan, E.; Regev, R. (2013). "Regulations in the field of Geo-Information". The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences. XL-7/W2: 87–92. doi:10.5194/isprsarchives-XL-7-W2-87-2013.
  17. ↑ Bekker, I.; Felus, Y. (2019). "Quality Control for Crowdsourcing Large-scale Topographic Maps". The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences. XLII-2/W13: 1201–1205. doi:10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-2-W13-1201-2019.
  18. ↑ Cetl, V.; Ioannidou, C.; Dalyot, S.; Doytsher, Y.; Felus, Y.; Haklay, M.; Mueller, H.; Potsiou, C.; Rispoli, E.; Siriba, D. (2019). Doytsher, Y. (ed.). New Trends in Spatial Information: The Land Surveyors Role in the Era of Crowdsourcing and VGI (PDF). FIG Publication. International Federation of Surveyors. ISBN 978-87-92853-85-1.
  19. ↑ "הפיתוח החדש של הלשכה המרכזית לסטטיסטיקה: כך תוכלו לצפות בנתונים" [The Central Bureau of Statistics' new development: how to view the data]. Ice (in Hebrew). 2024-07-15. Retrieved 2026-09-24.
  20. ↑ Schaffrin, B.; Felus, Y. A. (2008). "On the Multivariate Total Least-Squares Approach to Empirical Coordinate Transformations: Three Algorithms". Journal of Geodesy. 82 (6): 373–383. Bibcode:2008JGeod..82..373S. doi:10.1007/s00190-007-0186-5.
  21. ↑ Felus, Y. A.; Saalfeld, A.; Schaffrin, B. (2005). "Delaunay Triangulation Structured Kriging for Surface Interpolation". Surveying and Land Information Science. 65 (1): 27–36.
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