About MeHonors & Awards

  • 2023  | INCOSE Pioneer Award, presented at the INCOSE Annual International Symposium, Honolulu, HI, 2023, “For his seminal work as a researcher and educator, and most successfully transitioning research to practice.
  • 2023  | Best Paper Award, Award for “I-SHARE – INCOSE Systems Heuristics Application Repository: Sharing Systems Engineering Knowhow and Experience.” presented at the INCOSE Annual International Symposium, Honolulu, HI, 2023.
  • 2021  |  Life Fellow, IEEE – Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
  • 2018  |  Best Paper Award for the paper “What do we mean by ‘system’? – System Beliefs and Worldviews in the INCOSE Community.” INCOSE 28th Annual International Symposium – IS 2018, July 7-12, 2018, Washington DC, USA
  • 2017   |  Fellow, IEEE – Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers “For contributions to model-based systems engineering and document analysis recognition
  • 2015   |  Honorary member, INCOSE IL – International Council on Systems Engineering, Israel Chapter, “For your support in advancing systems engineering infrastructures in Israel and strengthening the foundations of INCOSE IL”. March 2015
  • 2014   |  Best Paper Award for “Modeling Software Agent Awareness of Physical-Informatical Essence Duality” by Y. Mordecai, O. Orhof, and D. Dori, Proc. SwSTE’14, The Software Summit, Tel Aviv, Israel, June 2014
  • 2014   |  Member – Omega Alpha Association – International Honor Society for Systems Engineering
  • 2013   |  Harry Lebensfeld Chair in Industrial Engineering, Technion
  • 2011   |  Fellow, International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) “For innovative contributions to the theory and practice of model-based systems engineering through research and education”
  • 2011   |  Recognition by the Israeli Chamber of Systems Analysts “For Exceptional Contribution in Developing the Domain of Information Systems in the Academia in Israel”
  • 2011   |  First Prize of INCOSE_IL to a group of undergraduate students under my guidance for developing SleepBuster – a system for reducing the risk of accidents due to driver fatigue
  • 2009   |  Opossum, created jointly with Eran Toch, Iris Reinhartz Berger, and Avigdor Gal, won the 3rd International Semantic Service Selection Contest at the Third International Workshop SMR2 2009 on Service Matchmaking and Resource Retrieval in the Semantic Web as the fastest OWL-S matchmaker
  • 2007  |  Miriam and Ray Klein Research Award for Object-Process Methodology (May 27, 2007)
  • 2006  |  Senior Member, ACM
  • 2000 |  Fellow, International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) “For contributions to document analysis recognition”
  • 1999   |  Senior Member, IEEE
  • 1999   |  Dudi Ben Aharon Research Award for Document Image Understanding of Engineering Drawings
  • 1997    |  Hershel Rich Technion Innovation Award for OPCAT – Object-Process CASE (Computer-Aided Software Engineering) Tool that supports Object-Process Methodology
  • 1995  |  Dashed Line Detection Contest – First Place, IAPR International Workshop on Graphics Recognition – IWGR’95. Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania
  • 1993   |  Alexander Goldberg Academic Lectureship in Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
  • 1972  | Israel Chemical Society Prize for the essay “Measuring Sun Radiation Strength Using a Photochemical Method”