Curriculum Vitae
Name:
Reuven Cohen
Email:
cohenr@shoshi.ph.biu.ac.il
Birth:
1974, Israel
Education
2003
Ph.D. in
Physics
with highest honors, Dept.
of
Physics, Bar-Ilan
University.
Dissertation topic: "Scale free
processes: Networks and percolation".
Thesis
adviser: Prof.
Shlomo
Havlin.
1995
B.Sc. Summa
Cum Laude in Physics
and Computer Science,
Bar-Ilan University.
Academic positions and jobs
2019-
Professor,
Dept. of
Mathematics, Bar-Ilan
University.
2017-2020
Chair, Dept. of
Mathematics, Bar-Ilan
University.
2016-2017
Head,
Financial Mathematics Track, Dept.
of
Mathematics, Bar-Ilan
University.
2012-2016
Vice
Chair, Dept.
of
Mathematics, Bar-Ilan
University.
2012-2019
Associate
Professor, Dept. of
Mathematics, Bar-Ilan
University.
2007-2012
Senior
Lecturer, Dept. of
Mathematics, Bar-Ilan
University.
2007-2010
Algorithmic
research consultant Ads-Vantage.
2006-2007
Postdoctoral
fellow, Dept. of
Physics, MIT
(host: Mehran
Kardar).
2005-2006
Postdoctoral
fellow, Dept.
of Electrical
and Computer Engineering, Boston
University
(Host: David
Starobinski).
2003-2005
Postdoctoral
fellow, Dept.
of Computer
Science and Applied Mathematics, Weizmann
Institute of Science (Host: David Peleg).
2000-2003
Science
2000, consulting the development of teaching
materials and software for high school students.
1999-2003
Teaching assistant - Department of Physics,
Bar-Ilan
University. Courses taught: electricity and electronics,
waves,
thermodynamics
and statistical mechanics, nuclear physics and elementary particles,
and
graduate quantum mechanics.
1997-1999
Software engineer, Applied Materials
Israel.
Professional activity
Referee for the journals: Nature,
PNAS,
Physical Review Letters,
Physical
Review E,
Physica
A, New
Journal of Physics,
Physics
Letters A, Journal
of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical,
Theoretical
Computer Science,
Theory
of Computing Systems, Artificial
Intelligence, Applied
Mathematics Letters, Chaos,
Computer
Networks, ACM
Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC), IEEE/ACM Transactions on
Networking
(ToN), Networks,
and IEEE
Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC).
Referee for the conferences: IEEE Infocom,
IEEE
conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC), IEEE
International
Conference on Communications (ICC), International
Conference On Principles Of Distributed System (OPODIS), and International
conference on
Distributed Computing (DISC).
Fellowships and Awards
2011 Krill prize (Wolf foundation)
2005 AKSOE
Socio- and Econo-physics young scientist
award (German Physical Society meeting 2005)
2004 Fulbright postdoctoral fellowship (not used)
2004 Weizmann Institute of Science
Pacific Theatres
Foundation Fellowship
2003 Weizmann Institute of Science
postdoctoral
fellowship
2003 Ph.D. with highest distinction, Bar-Ilan
University
2002 Israel Ministry of Science - Best
popular
science
article (published in Galileo 5/01)
2001 Excellence in research prize -
Department of
Physics
2000 Best scientific paper award -
Bar-Ilan University
2000 Israel Ministry of Science - high
technology
scholarship
2000 Faculty of Natural Science - Jacobs
award
1995 B.Sc. - Summa Cum Laude, Bar-Ilan
University.
1994 Rector's prize - top 50 students in
the
university
1994 Locker award - Department of Physics
1994 Dean's list
1993 Wolfson scholarship
Conferences and talks
1. "Complex Matter: equilibrium dynamics
and
interfacial properties", Weizmann Institute and Kfar-Blum, 2000.
2. "Spectral and Transport Properties of
Random
Network Models", Max-Plank-Institut, Gottingen, Germany, 2000.
3. "International Conference on Dynamical
Networks in
Complex Systems", Kiel, Germany, 2001.
4. "Frontiers in the Physics of Complex
Systems",
Dead See, Israel, 2001.
5. Lecture given at condensed-matter
seminar,
Notre-Dame University, Indiana, USA, 2001.
6. Meeting of the Israel Physical
Society, Tel-Aviv,
2001 (Invited Talk).
7. "Statistical Mechanics of Complex
Networks" -
Sitges, Spain, June 2002.
8. Los-Alamos center for non-linear
studies -
"Networks: structure, dynamics and function", Santa-Fe, May 2003.
9. "Growing Networks and Graphs in Statistical
Physics,
Finance, Biology and Social Systems", Rome, Italy, September 2003.
10. Colloquium given at Jerusalem College
of
Engineering (JCE), May 2004.
11. Talk at Microsoft Research - Theory Group,
November
2004.
12. Networking Systems Biology meeting, Weizmann
Institute
of Science, December 2004.
13. Young Scientist Award talk, Econophysics,
German
Physical Society meeting, March 2005.
14. "Dynamics days", Berlin, 2005 (Invited Talk).
15. The eighth Israeli mini-workshop on
computational
and applied mathematics, Bar-Ilan University, December 2007 (Invited
Talk).
16. CSCAMM Workshop: Nonlinear Dynamics
of Networks,
University of Maryland, April 2010 (Invited Talk).
Publications