Keynote Speaker I

Prof. Gregory Levitin
NOGA - Israel Independent System Operator

Bio: Gregory Levitin received his PhD degree in Industrial Automation from Moscow Research Institute of Metalworking Machines in 1989. From 1982 to 1990 he worked as software engineer and researcher in the field of industrial automation. From 1991 to 1993 he worked at the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) as a postdoctoral fellow at the faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management. Prof. Levitin is presently a senior expert at the Reliability Department of NOGA - Israel Independent System Operator and distinguished visiting professor at Southwest Jiaotong University. His current interests are in system reliability. In this field Prof. Levitin has published more than 400 papers and five books. He served as a chair of the ESRA Technical Committee on System Reliability, as associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Reliability, area coordinator of International Journal of Performability Engineering. Now he serves as editor of Reliability Engineering & System Safety, and member of editorial boards of several other journals.

Keynote Speaker II

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