2024 · paper
Resource allocation in ordinal classification problems: A prescriptive framework utilizing machine learning and mathematical programming
Combines ordinal prediction with mathematical programming for resource-allocation decisions.[80]
Machine learning and stochastic decision systems
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Identity: verifiedThe BIU engineering page uses Gonen Singer and matches the roster. [79][80]
Documented foundation
Singer combines machine learning and stochastic optimal control for operational problems in healthcare, manufacturing, retail, and education.[79][80]
stochastic optimal controlprescriptive analyticscost-sensitive learningresource allocation
The BIU profile and publication list were inspected; no standalone current CV was verified.[79]
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2024 · paper
Combines ordinal prediction with mathematical programming for resource-allocation decisions.[80]
2 catalogued patent records · 2 identified families
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US11334799B2 · Published 2022-05-17
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Publication assignee: C-B4 Context Based Forecasting Ltd
Named inventor Gonen SINGER; CB4 affiliation explicitly corroborated by the university biography. Assignee is the captured publication metadata, not a current-ownership determination.[255][292]
US20190073620A1 · Published 2019-03-07
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Publication assignee: C-B4 Context Based Forecasting Ltd
Named inventor Gonen SINGER; CB4 affiliation explicitly corroborated by the university biography. Assignee is the captured publication metadata, not a current-ownership determination.[256][292]
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Scores prioritize research fit from 1–10; they are not probabilities.
Review: Reviewed with limitations
Proposed capability matches, not confirmed relationships. Scores are analyst judgments with low forecast confidence; researcher interests, capacity and feasibility need confirmation.
12 candidates
Connection 1
Original proposal
Proposal hypothesis: Izack Cohen's queueing and process models complement Singer's stochastic control and prescriptive learning for demand-dependent capacity decisions.[79][80][97][98]
Proposed first test: Build one synthetic service queue and compare fixed staffing with two adaptive policies on delay, overtime and unmet demand.
Rank 1/12; fit 10/10 (4 topic overlap + 3 complementarity + 3 feasible first test). Preserved original co-membership proposal in o03. No strictly higher-scoring candidate displaces this original. Both document operational decision methods; synthetic feasibility does not establish hospital benefit. No automatic score boost for original membership. Equal scores use existing-first, then stable researcher ID.
Analyst proposal hypothesis, not an established collaboration, commitment, evidence-confidence rating or assessment of researcher quality; confirm participation and access before work.
Connection 2
Original proposal
Proposal hypothesis: Singer's cost-sensitive prescriptive learning and Ilan Cohen's resource-constrained classification directly meet in allocating scarce decisions online.[79][80][119][120]
Proposed first test: Use a synthetic labelled demand stream and compare cost-sensitive static allocation with an online budgeted policy on cost and fairness.
Rank 2/12; fit 9/10 (4 topic overlap + 2 complementarity + 3 feasible first test). Preserved original co-membership proposal in o03. Higher-scoring Izack Cohen (10/10) precedes this original; its own rank reflects the following limitation: The methods substantially overlap, so complementarity is lower than for an operations researcher paired with a domain-measurement specialist. No automatic score boost for original membership. Equal scores use existing-first, then stable researcher ID.
Analyst proposal hypothesis, not an established collaboration, commitment, evidence-confidence rating or assessment of researcher quality; confirm participation and access before work. Original initiative conditions remain: o03 Ilan Reuven Cohen: Conditional later role: add online/fair-allocation rules if the chosen service decision requires them.
Connection 3
Proposal hypothesis: Fetaya can stress-test learned predictions while Singer measures their downstream cost in prescriptive allocation.[73][79][80]
Proposed first test: Inject covariate shifts into a synthetic demand model and compare predictive accuracy and realized allocation cost with a robust non-learning baseline.
Rank 3/12; fit 9/10 (3 topic overlap + 3 complementarity + 3 feasible first test). New pairing outside the frozen portfolio co-member graph. Better prediction may worsen decisions; downstream cost must be measured explicitly. Equal scores use existing-first, then stable researcher ID.
Analyst proposal hypothesis, not an established collaboration, commitment, evidence-confidence rating or assessment of researcher quality; confirm participation and access before work.
Connection 4
Proposal hypothesis: Goldberger's uncertainty estimates can inform Singer's cost-sensitive allocation of scarce review or service capacity.[75][76][79][80]
Proposed first test: On a public classification benchmark with synthetic service costs, compare uncertainty-based and cost-based triage on missed errors and total cost.
Rank 4/12; fit 9/10 (3 topic overlap + 3 complementarity + 3 feasible first test). New pairing outside the frozen portfolio co-member graph. Synthetic cost weights are not clinical or institutional policy values. Equal scores use existing-first, then stable researcher ID.
Analyst proposal hypothesis, not an established collaboration, commitment, evidence-confidence rating or assessment of researcher quality; confirm participation and access before work.
Connection 5
Identity check needed: Conditional proposal: confirm the researcher identity and research interests before assessing this match.
Proposal hypothesis: Conditional on confirming the roster mapping, Shtern's robust optimization can bound the uncertainty sets used by Singer's stochastic prescriptive decisions.[79][80][83][84][85]
Conditional proposed first test: After identity and affiliation confirmation, compare nominal and robust allocation on a synthetic demand benchmark, reporting cost and worst-case violations.
Rank 5/12; fit 9/10 (4 topic overlap + 3 complementarity + 2 feasible first test). New pairing outside the frozen portfolio co-member graph. The optimization expertise is documented, but Shtern's current internal affiliation remains unresolved. Equal scores use existing-first, then stable researcher ID.
Analyst proposal hypothesis, not an established collaboration, commitment, evidence-confidence rating or assessment of researcher quality; confirm participation and access before work. Conditional: confirm Shimrit Shtern identity mapping and current institutional affiliation before any internal team assignment. The BIU directory and current Technion appointment leave affiliation unresolved. Documented optimization expertise is conditional on that mapping; excluded from confirmed-team claims.
Connection 6
Original proposal
Proposal hypothesis: Somin can derive temporal coordination features and Singer can test whether those features improve a stochastic resource-allocation decision.[64][65][79][80]
Proposed first test: Inject known demand bursts into a synthetic service network and compare feature-informed allocation with a rate-only controller on unmet demand and false interventions.
Rank 6/12; fit 8/10 (2 topic overlap + 3 complementarity + 3 feasible first test). Preserved original co-membership proposal in o03. An added candidate, Ethan Fetaya (9/10), ranks above this original because its stated pair-specific roles and first test score higher; this original is limited as follows: Correlation in event timing is not a causal intervention target; retain the simpler controller if decision quality does not improve. No automatic score boost for original membership. Equal scores use existing-first, then stable researcher ID.
Analyst proposal hypothesis, not an established collaboration, commitment, evidence-confidence rating or assessment of researcher quality; confirm participation and access before work. Original initiative conditions remain: o03 Shahar Somin: Conditional later role: test temporal network signals only if approved event-network data adds value beyond the queueing baseline.
Connection 7
Proposal hypothesis: Singer can specify a decision policy and its cost tradeoffs while Ernst can link an explanatory summary to the actual policy inputs and outputs.[79][80][93][94][95]
Proposed first test: Generate synthetic allocation cases and compare source-aligned explanations with ordinary summaries on omitted constraints and incorrect cost statements.
Rank 7/12; fit 8/10 (2 topic overlap + 3 complementarity + 3 feasible first test). New pairing outside the frozen portfolio co-member graph. A faithful explanation does not prove that the underlying policy is optimal or fair. Equal scores use existing-first, then stable researcher ID.
Analyst proposal hypothesis, not an established collaboration, commitment, evidence-confidence rating or assessment of researcher quality; confirm participation and access before work.
Connection 8
Proposal hypothesis: Singer's prescriptive resource allocation could choose how Yavits's memory-centric system spends a limited compute or energy budget.[79][80][104][105]
Proposed first test: Replay a mixed synthetic kernel queue and compare fixed and adaptive placement on deadlines, traffic and energy proxies.
Rank 8/12; fit 8/10 (2 topic overlap + 3 complementarity + 3 feasible first test). New pairing outside the frozen portfolio co-member graph. A meaningful system cost model is needed; energy proxies are not measured consumption. Equal scores use existing-first, then stable researcher ID.
Analyst proposal hypothesis, not an established collaboration, commitment, evidence-confidence rating or assessment of researcher quality; confirm participation and access before work.
Connection 9
Original proposal
Proposal hypothesis: Chalutz-Ben Gal can formulate worker-facing constraints while Singer models the cost and capacity consequences of AI-assisted allocation.[22][23][79][80]
Proposed first test: Use synthetic shift preferences and demand to compare cost-only and burden-constrained policies on overtime and unmet demand.
Rank 9/12; fit 7/10 (2 topic overlap + 3 complementarity + 2 feasible first test). Preserved original co-membership proposal in o03. An added candidate, Ethan Fetaya (9/10), ranks above this original because its stated pair-specific roles and first test score higher; this original is limited as follows: The original staffing role remains conditional on an agreed definition of burden and later voluntary participant input. No automatic score boost for original membership. Equal scores use existing-first, then stable researcher ID.
Analyst proposal hypothesis, not an established collaboration, commitment, evidence-confidence rating or assessment of researcher quality; confirm participation and access before work.
Connection 10
Proposal hypothesis: Sadia's costly composition/conductivity experiments could be scheduled using Singer's stochastic control and cost-sensitive decisions.[31][32][79][80]
Proposed first test: Simulate a small candidate-composition queue and compare adaptive measurement allocation with equal replication on error and experiment count.
Rank 10/12; fit 7/10 (2 topic overlap + 3 complementarity + 2 feasible first test). New pairing outside the frozen portfolio co-member graph. A meaningful materials objective and measurement-noise model must be supplied by Sadia. Equal scores use existing-first, then stable researcher ID.
Analyst proposal hypothesis, not an established collaboration, commitment, evidence-confidence rating or assessment of researcher quality; confirm participation and access before work.
Connection 11
Proposal hypothesis: Singer can specify a resource-allocation calculation and Mor Weiss can test a protocol that executes it without revealing individual inputs.[79][80][123]
Proposed first test: Compare a toy private aggregate allocation with plaintext computation on output equality, communication and leakage assumptions.
Rank 11/12; fit 7/10 (2 topic overlap + 3 complementarity + 2 feasible first test). New pairing outside the frozen portfolio co-member graph. Privacy of execution does not validate the allocation objective or prevent inference from outputs. Equal scores use existing-first, then stable researcher ID.
Analyst proposal hypothesis, not an established collaboration, commitment, evidence-confidence rating or assessment of researcher quality; confirm participation and access before work.
Connection 12
Identity check needed: Conditional proposal: confirm the researcher identity and research interests before assessing this match.
Proposal hypothesis: Conditional on confirmation, Simonovsky could coordinate an agent-prototype event where Singer supplies a resource-allocation simulation as the challenge.[16][17][79][80]
Conditional proposed first test: After identity confirmation, package a synthetic queue and fixed cost function; pilot a submission checklist that records cost and unmet demand.
Rank 12/12; fit 4/10 (1 topic overlap + 2 complementarity + 1 feasible first test). New pairing outside the frozen portfolio co-member graph. Coordination is the only evidenced Simonovsky capability; operational research and algorithm design are not assigned to her. Equal scores use existing-first, then stable researcher ID.
Analyst proposal hypothesis, not an established collaboration, commitment, evidence-confidence rating or assessment of researcher quality; confirm participation and access before work. Conditional: confirm Alexandra Simonovsky identity and current role before any team assignment. Evidence supports AI-agent event coordination only; research appointment, teaching role and technical research expertise are not verified. Excluded from confirmed-team claims.
10 candidates
Connection 1
Princeton University
Original proposal
His sequential-decision and optimization-under-uncertainty framework could complement policy design and simulation discipline; no willingness is asserted.[79][80][81][486]
Build a discrete-event model for one bounded service line and compare three policies on delay, overtime, and unmet demand.
Rank 1/10 after semantic revision; analyst score 10 = max(1, 4+3+3): topic overlap 4/4, complementarity 3/3, feasible first test 3/3. A bounded offline comparison is specified; required datasets and domain assumptions must still be checked. Original remains first under these components; original status breaks equal-score ties only, without a prestige bonus.
Proposed fit, not an assertion of a new or active relationship. Independent review pending; forecast confidence low. Partner interest, capacity, data access and any required experimental approvals/resources are unverified.
Connection 2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Proposed capability match: Gonen Singer's stochastic optimal control, prescriptive analytics can be paired with Dimitris Bertsimas's documented optimization, machine learning for resilient laboratory and hospital operations digital twin. The specific contribution is optimization-based prescriptive decisions; this transfer is an analyst hypothesis.[79][80][86][437]
Compare a constrained optimization policy with a fixed rule using the same forecasts and capacity limits using a synthetic laboratory/hospital event-log simulator with demand spikes and capacity limits. Compare objective value, feasibility and sensitivity to misspecified inputs with the fixed scheduling and resource-allocation rule.
Rank 2/10 after semantic revision; analyst score 10 = max(1, 4+3+3): topic overlap 4/4, complementarity 3/3, feasible first test 3/3. A bounded offline comparison is specified; required datasets and domain assumptions must still be checked.
Proposed fit, not an assertion of a new or active relationship. Independent review pending; forecast confidence low. Partner interest, capacity, data access and any required experimental approvals/resources are unverified.
Connection 3
RWTH Aachen University
Proposed capability match: Gonen Singer's stochastic optimal control, prescriptive analytics can be paired with Wil van der Aalst's documented process mining, workflow conformance for resilient laboratory and hospital operations digital twin. The specific contribution is workflow discovery and conformance; this transfer is an analyst hypothesis.[79][80][99][429]
Reconstruct an event-log process and compare observed paths with the proposed process model using a synthetic laboratory/hospital event-log simulator with demand spikes and capacity limits. Compare conformance violations, bottleneck localization and replay error with the fixed scheduling and resource-allocation rule.
Rank 3/10 after semantic revision; analyst score 9 = max(1, 3+3+3): topic overlap 3/4, complementarity 3/3, feasible first test 3/3. A bounded offline comparison is specified; required datasets and domain assumptions must still be checked.
Proposed fit, not an assertion of a new or active relationship. Independent review pending; forecast confidence low. Partner interest, capacity, data access and any required experimental approvals/resources are unverified.
Connection 4
Stanford University
Proposed capability match: Gonen Singer's stochastic optimal control, prescriptive analytics can be paired with Susan Athey's documented causal inference and machine learning, adaptive experiments for resilient laboratory and hospital operations digital twin. The specific contribution is causal evaluation of a proposed decision rule; this transfer is an analyst hypothesis.[79][80][433]
Predefine a randomized or valid quasi-experimental comparison of the rule against current practice before estimating benefit using a synthetic laboratory/hospital event-log simulator with demand spikes and capacity limits. Compare heterogeneous effects, uncertainty intervals and sensitivity to confounding with the fixed scheduling and resource-allocation rule.
Rank 4/10 after semantic revision; analyst score 9 = max(1, 3+3+3): topic overlap 3/4, complementarity 3/3, feasible first test 3/3. A bounded offline comparison is specified; required datasets and domain assumptions must still be checked.
Proposed fit, not an assertion of a new or active relationship. Independent review pending; forecast confidence low. Partner interest, capacity, data access and any required experimental approvals/resources are unverified.
Connection 5
Harvard University
Proposed capability match: Gonen Singer's stochastic optimal control, prescriptive analytics can be paired with Michael Mitzenmacher's documented algorithms and theory, systems and networks for resilient laboratory and hospital operations digital twin. The specific contribution is algorithmic and systems baselines; this transfer is an analyst hypothesis.[79][80][101][478]
Compare two explicit sampling, load-balancing or scheduling algorithms under the same adversarial event trace using a synthetic laboratory/hospital event-log simulator with demand spikes and capacity limits. Compare tail latency, failure rate and sensitivity to the event distribution with the fixed scheduling and resource-allocation rule.
Rank 5/10 after semantic revision; analyst score 9 = max(1, 3+3+3): topic overlap 3/4, complementarity 3/3, feasible first test 3/3. A bounded offline comparison is specified; required datasets and domain assumptions must still be checked.
Proposed fit, not an assertion of a new or active relationship. Independent review pending; forecast confidence low. Partner interest, capacity, data access and any required experimental approvals/resources are unverified.
Connection 6
Carnegie Mellon University
Proposed capability match: Gonen Singer's stochastic optimal control, prescriptive analytics can be paired with Kathleen M. Carley's documented dynamic network analysis, social cybersecurity for resilient laboratory and hospital operations digital twin. The specific contribution is temporal network and organizational simulation; this transfer is an analyst hypothesis.[66][79][80][445]
Compare a temporal network model with a shuffled-edge null while preserving activity rates using a synthetic laboratory/hospital event-log simulator with demand spikes and capacity limits. Compare false alarms, lead time and sensitivity to network sampling with the fixed scheduling and resource-allocation rule.
Rank 6/10 after semantic revision; analyst score 8 = max(1, 2+3+3): topic overlap 2/4, complementarity 3/3, feasible first test 3/3. A bounded offline comparison is specified; required datasets and domain assumptions must still be checked.
Proposed fit, not an assertion of a new or active relationship. Independent review pending; forecast confidence low. Partner interest, capacity, data access and any required experimental approvals/resources are unverified.
Connection 7
Stanford University
Proposed capability match: Gonen Singer's stochastic optimal control, prescriptive analytics can be paired with Andrea Montanari's documented high-dimensional statistics, posterior sampling for resilient laboratory and hospital operations digital twin. The specific contribution is high-dimensional statistical baselines; this transfer is an analyst hypothesis.[79][80][479]
Compare a regularized low-complexity estimator with a flexible model while varying sample size and dimensionality using a synthetic laboratory/hospital event-log simulator with demand spikes and capacity limits. Compare generalization error, calibration and the sample-size threshold with the fixed scheduling and resource-allocation rule.
Rank 7/10 after semantic revision; analyst score 8 = max(1, 2+3+3): topic overlap 2/4, complementarity 3/3, feasible first test 3/3. A bounded offline comparison is specified; required datasets and domain assumptions must still be checked.
Proposed fit, not an assertion of a new or active relationship. Independent review pending; forecast confidence low. Partner interest, capacity, data access and any required experimental approvals/resources are unverified.
Connection 8
Stanford University
Proposed capability match: Gonen Singer's stochastic optimal control, prescriptive analytics can be paired with Alvin E. Roth's documented market design, matching for resilient laboratory and hospital operations digital twin. The specific contribution is allocation rules, incentives and matching; this transfer is an analyst hypothesis.[79][80][122][490]
Simulate two allocation mechanisms with fixed preferences and capacity, including strategic misreporting using a synthetic laboratory/hospital event-log simulator with demand spikes and capacity limits. Compare unmatched demand, stability, fairness and manipulability with the fixed scheduling and resource-allocation rule.
Rank 8/10 after semantic revision; analyst score 8 = max(1, 2+3+3): topic overlap 2/4, complementarity 3/3, feasible first test 3/3. A bounded offline comparison is specified; required datasets and domain assumptions must still be checked.
Proposed fit, not an assertion of a new or active relationship. Independent review pending; forecast confidence low. Partner interest, capacity, data access and any required experimental approvals/resources are unverified.
Connection 9
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Proposed capability match for Gonen Singer with Gregory Wornell: Task-oriented compression can reduce operational telemetry only after naming the sufficient observations and downstream allocation loss.[79][80][110][503]
Define the compressed observation as per-class queue counts and arrival-rate estimates sent once per interval. Hold the downstream capacity allocator fixed; compare full event histories with these summaries at a fixed byte budget using future-demand prediction error and resulting waiting-time cost on the same synthetic service traces.
Rank 9/10 after semantic revision; analyst score 6 = max(1, 2+2+2): topic overlap 2/4, complementarity 2/3, feasible first test 2/3. Task-oriented compression can reduce operational telemetry only after naming the sufficient observations and downstream allocation loss. A bounded offline comparison is specified; required datasets and domain assumptions must still be checked.
Proposed fit, not an assertion of a new or active relationship. Independent review pending; forecast confidence low. Partner interest, capacity, data access and any required experimental approvals/resources are unverified. Post-review scope: Task-oriented compression can reduce operational telemetry only after naming the sufficient observations and downstream allocation loss. This revised proposal awaits independent targeted re-review; simulated outcomes would establish model behavior only, not biological, clinical or deployed benefit.
Connection 10
Stony Brook University
Proposed capability match for Gonen Singer with Andrea Goldsmith: Wireless resource-allocation concepts are an indirect analogy to operations scheduling; a shared constrained-allocation model is required, and radio-specific effects do not transfer.[21][79][80][103][456]
Write a mathematical analogy between a two-class service queue and constrained resource allocation: classes correspond to request streams, service slots to capacity, and backlog to the observed state. Compare a backlog-responsive allocator with fixed shares on identical synthetic arrivals by waiting time and unmet demand. Omit RF interference, transmit power and wireless throughput claims; reject the analogy if service constraints do not map.
Rank 10/10 after semantic revision; analyst score 5 = max(1, 1+2+2): topic overlap 1/4, complementarity 2/3, feasible first test 2/3. Wireless resource-allocation concepts are an indirect analogy to operations scheduling; a shared constrained-allocation model is required, and radio-specific effects do not transfer. A bounded offline comparison is specified; required datasets and domain assumptions must still be checked.
Proposed fit, not an assertion of a new or active relationship. Independent review pending; forecast confidence low. Partner interest, capacity, data access and any required experimental approvals/resources are unverified. Post-review scope: Wireless resource-allocation concepts are an indirect analogy to operations scheduling; a shared constrained-allocation model is required, and radio-specific effects do not transfer. This revised proposal awaits independent targeted re-review; simulated outcomes would establish model behavior only, not biological, clinical or deployed benefit.
Gonen Singer has source-grounded capabilities in machine learning and stochastic decision systems, represented here by stochastic optimal control, prescriptive analytics, cost-sensitive learning. [79][80]
Moderate confidenceReview: reviewedThe sources establish public professional activity, not comparative quality, future performance, or willingness to participate.
Hypothesis for 2027–2031: Gonen Singer could explore resilient laboratory and hospital operations digital twin through the bounded first test described in this profile. [79][80][81]
Low confidenceReview: reviewedData access, model validity, and operational adoption are unresolved.