Tal Raviv is a member of the Industrial Engineering department at the Iby and Aladar Fleischman Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Israel. He holds a BA from the Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University (1993), an MBA from the Recanati School of Business, Tel Aviv University (1997), and a PhD in Operations Research from the William Davidson Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa (2003). He spent two years (2004-2006) as a postdoctoral fellow in the Sauder School of Business at University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. His current main research interest is in combinatorial optimization and transportation systems.