Gabriel Yarmish
Professor
Computer and Information Science
Location: 1214 Ingersoll Hall
Phone: 718.951.5000 x2071
Fax: 718.951.4842
Email:
Gabriel Yarmish's Web site
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Education:
Ph.D., Polytechnic Institute of New York - 2001 (Computer Science )
Areas of Expertise:
Distributed and parallel optimization methods, optimization of large linear mathematical programs. This includes application to other areas, such as financial applications.
Books and Publications
"Stochastic Asset Allocation Models." Journal of Business and Economics 5.10: 1837-44. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2014
NSF Collaborative Award #0942862 (in collaboration with Polytechnic University), for "A Gaming Environment to Teach Students About Complex Distributed Systems. $16,666. (Grants and Fellowships) 2010
Yarmish, Gavriel and Igor Balsim. CUNY Collaborative Incentive Research Grant Program 2009 - Round 16, for "Agent-based Models and Data Representation," Feb. 26. Not funded. 2009
"A Description of Retrolp Linear Program." Proceedings of the Northeast Decision Sciences Institute. March 27-29. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2014
Member, organizing and program committees, 3nd Annual Conference on Computer & Human Error (CHE 2007), CUNY Graduate Center, New York, Dec. 21. http://www.computerhumanerror.org. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2007
Referee, INFORMS Journal on Computing. 2014
Yarmish, Gavriel, Harry Nagel and Robert Fireworker. "Recent Advances in Applications of Mathematical Programming to Business and Economic Problems." Review of Business & Finance Studies (RBFS) 5.1: 19-25. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2014
Yarmish, Gavriel, Harry Nagel and Robert Fireworker. "Application of Business, Financial and Economic Problems to Mathematical Programming." Proceedings of the Institute for Business and Finance Research 8.1: 90-94. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2013
Fogel, J. and G. Yarmish. "Consumers and Computer Software Advertisements in Spam E-mail." Journal of Internet Banking and Commerce 17.2. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2012
Kopec, D., C. Schweikert and G. Yarmish. "Representational Choices for Problem Solving." Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI 2012) 1: 185-90. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2012
"Monte Carlo Stochastic Programming Applied to Asset Allocation." Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Scientific Computing, July 18-21, 2011. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2011
"Stochastic Linear Programs with Parallel Processors?" Proceedings of the International Symposium on Stochastic Models in Reliability Engineering, Life Sciences and Operations Management, Shamoon College of Engineering, Beer Sheva, Israel, Feb. 8-11. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2010
Balsim, Igor, Ronald Eckhardt, Elie Feder, Sarwar Jahangir and Gabriel Yarmish. "The Pervasive Applications of Computer Science in Biomedicine." Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges 24.3, January: 11-18. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2009
Yarmish, Gavriel and Richard Van Slyke. "A Distributed, Scaleable Simplex Method." The Journal of Supercomputing 49.3, September. http://www.springerlink.com/
Yarmish, Gavriel, Harry Nagel and Robert Fireworker. "Stochastic Asset Allocation Models." 36th Annual Conference of the Northeast Business & Economics Association. Worcester, Mass., Nov. 5-7. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2009
Fireworker, Robert, Gavriel Yarmish and Harry Nagel. "The Sub-prime Mortgage Debacle and What We Can Learn From Mathematical Programs." The Review of Business Journal, St John's University 29.1, Fall: 5-14. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2008
Yarmish, Joshua and Gavriel Yarmish. "Arithmetic With Very Large Integers Using Parallel Processing." Congressus Numerantium 191, December: 81-90. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2008
"Some Computational Checks for the Simplex method in Linear Programming." Proceedings of the 6th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Statistics, Mathematics and Related Fields, Jan. 17-19. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2007
"Wavelet Decomposition via the Standard Tableau Simplex Method of Linear Programming." WSEAS Transactions on Mathematics 6, January: 170-77. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2007
Kopec, Danny, Gavriel Yarmish and Patrick Cheung. "A Description and Study of Intermediate Student Programmer Errors." ACM SIGCSE Bulletin. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2007
Yarmish, Gavriel and Danny Kopec. "Revisiting Novice Programmer Errors." ACM SIGCSE Bulletin. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2007
Yarmish, Gavriel and Richard Van Slyke. "A Distributed, Scaleable Simplex Method." The Journal of Supercomputing. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2007
"An Economic Interpretation of Linear Programming." Journal of International Marketing & Marketing Research 31.1, February: 45-56. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2006
"The Simplex Method Applied to Wavelet Decomposition." Proceedings of the 10th WSEAS International Conference on Applied Mathematics, Dallas, Nov. 1-3: 226-28. http://www.wseas.us/e-library/conferences/2006dallas/
Yarmish, Gavriel and Richard Van Slyke. "A Description of and Motivation for retroLP, An Implementation of the Standard Simplex Method." Proceedings of the 5th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Statistics, Mathematics and Related Fields, January 16-18: 1704-14. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2006
"Computer Literacy via Interpreted Language: HTML/Java." Proceedings of the Spring 2005 ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, N.J., April 15-16. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2005
"The Simplex Method-Computational Checks for the Simplex Calculation." Optimization Online. http://www.optimization-online.org/DB_HTML/2005/
Yarmish, Gavriel and Richard Van Slyke. "A Distributed, Scaleable Simplex Method." Optimization Online. http://www.optimization-online.org/DB_HTML/
Yarmish, Gavriel, Danny Kopec and Jim Aman. "Teaching Formal Methods in Software Engineering." Proceedings of the Spring 2005 ASEE New England Section Conference, Fairfield University, Fairfield, Conn., April 8-9. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2005
"Parallelization Using the Standard Simplex Algorithm." Proceedings of the PDPTA'04 - The 2004 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications, Las Vegas, June 21-24: 681-86.
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/IMCSE2004/ws/Program/pdp24. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2004
Awards, Honors and Fellowships
PSC-CUNY-40, for "Linear Programming and Its Application to Finance, Economics and Other Fields." June 2009-June 2010. (Grants and Fellowships) 2010
PSC-CUNY-38, for "Applications of Linear Programming in Finance and Economics." (Grants and Fellowships) 2007
Yarmish, Gavriel, Joel Wein, Mel Horwitch, Nasir Nemon and Carl Skelton. NSF-CPATH, for "Community Building Project: Virtualized Gaming as a Pathway to Enhanced Understanding of Complex Networked Systems." Proposal #6664272 NSF 06-608, Jan. 23. (Grants and Fellowships) 2007
ONR BAA Number 06-002 (Young Investigator Program), for "Extensions to a Distributed Implementation of the Standard Simplex Method." January. $298,611 (not funded). (Awards and Honors) 2006
PSC-CUNY-36, for "The Steepest Edge Column Choice Rule as Applied to the Standard Simplex Method." $3,612.26; June 2005-June 2006. (Grants and Fellowships) 2006
Yarmish, Gavriel and Joel Wein. NSF-CCLI-Phase 1: Exploratory, for "Teaching Students to Build Robust Complex Distributed Systems." Proposal #0633624 NSF 06-536, May 10. $149,488 (not funded). (Grants and Fellowships) 2006
PSC-CUNY-35, for "The Steepest Edge Column Choice Rule as Applied to the Standard Simplex Method." $4,425; June 2004-June 2005. (Grants and Fellowships) 2005
Yarmish, Gavriel and Joel Wein. NSF-CCLI-Phase 1: Exploratory, for "DPROJ: A Platform for Undergraduate Projects in Distributed Computing." Proposal #0536417 NSF 05-559, May 18. $149,813 (not funded). (Awards and Honors) 2005
Microsoft RFP, for "Introduction to Trustworthy Computing." $50,000 (not funded). (Awards and Honors) 2004
Microsoft RFP, for "Managing Complex Software Systems: A Formal Approach." $48,000 (not funded). (Grants and Fellowships) 2004
PSC-CUNY-33, for "Applications for retroLP: An Implementation of the Standard Simplex Algorithm." $4,190; June 2002-June 2003. (Grants and Fellowships) 2003
Research Activities
Yarmish, Gavriel, Joel Wein and Howard Everson. NSF - CCLI-Phase 1: Exploratory, for "Preparing Students to Build Realistic Distributed Systems." Proposal #0837748 NSF 08-546, May 21. Under consideration. 2008
Member, organizing and program committees, 2nd Annual Conference on Computer & Human Error (CHE 2006)," CUNY Graduate Center, New York, Dec. 15. http://www.computerhumanerror.org. 2006
Member, organizing and program committees, Symposium on Computer & Human Error, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, Nov. 4. http://www.computerhumanerror.org. 2005
Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums
"Best Practices for the Introductory Computer Science Course: Programming Language Choice & Pedagogy." Israel Association for Information Systems. Academic College of Tel-Aviv Yaffo. June 8. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2014
"Distributed Linear Programming and Steepest Edge Rule." Department of Computer and Information Science, Brooklyn College. Nov 12. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2013
"On Minds and Computers." Department of Computer and Information Science, Brooklyn College. May 7. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2013
"Arithmetic With Very Large Integers Using Parallel Processing." 39th Southeastern Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Computing. March 3-7. http://www.math.fau.edu/cgtc/cgtc39/Abstracts.html#TZ. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008
"How Motivational Factors Affect the Path to Successful Language Acquisition." Faculty Day. Brooklyn College. May 21. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008
"Economic Interpretations of Linear Programming." 19th Annual Meeting of the International Academy of Business Disciplines. Orlando, Fla., March 29-April 1. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007
"The Stochastic Nature of Asset Allocation Models." 19th Annual Meeting of the International Academy of Business Disciplines. Orlando, Fla., March 29-April 1. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007
Yarmish, Joshua and Gavriel Yarmish. "Arithmetic With Very Large Integers Using Parallel Processing." 39th Southeastern Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Computing. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007
"A Categorization of Novice Programmer Errors." 2nd Annual Conference on Computer & Human Error (CHE 2006). Dec. 15. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2006
"A Description of Intermediate Programmer Errors." Symposium on Computer & Human Error (CHE). CUNY Graduate Center. New York, Nov. 4. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2005
"Intermediate Programmer Errors." Symposium on Computer & Human Error. CUNY Graduate Center. New York, Nov. 4. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2005
"Programmer Errors: Formal vs. Informal Methods of Reducing the Error Rate." Second International Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society. Dec. 12-15. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2005
"A Solver for Dense LP Problems." Informs Annual Meeting. Denver, Oct. 24-27.
https://informs.emeetingsonline.com/emeetings/formbuilder/clustersessiondtl.asp?csnno=2212&mmnno=132. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2004
"Distributed Computing and the Simplex Method." 18th International Symposium on Mathematical Programming. Copenhagen, Aug. 18-22. http://www.ismp2003.dk/www/site/abstract/showabstract.asp?AbstractID=611. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2003
"Telecommunications Considerations in dpLP: A Distributed Simplex Method." INFORMS Annual Meeting. Miami Beach, Fla., Nov 2-7. http://www.informs.org/Conf/Miami2001//TALKS/SB06.html. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2001
Professional Leadership
Referee, Mathematics and Computer Education. (Professional Leadership: Public Service) 2006
Other Professional Activities
Referee, Journal of Supercomputing. 2014
Accepted to be reviewer for the 5th International Symposium on Management, Engineering and Informatics: MEI 2009, 2010 (In the Context of the 13th Multi-conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics: WMSCI 2009, July 10-13, 2009, Orlando, Fla.). 2009
NSF Preliminary Proposal, for "Bringing Industrial Mathematics Experience to the Community College to Promote Technological Education and Career Success," April 23. $872,688. Proposal was encouraged by NSF, Aug. 18. 2009
Yarmish, Gavriel, Igor Balsim, Jim Cox, Ronald Eckhardt, Elie Feder, M. Frame, N. Greene, S. Jahangir and S. Majewicz. NSF - S-STEM, for "Community College Students Paving Future Careers in Biomedicine and Health-Science." NSF 07-524 Proposal #0850000, Aug. 12. Not funded. 2008
Yarmish, Gavriel, Ronald A. Eckhardt, Igor Balsim, Elie Feder and Adi Gotleib. NSF-CCF Theoretical Foundation 2008 (TF08), for "Collaborative Research: Optimization Techniques as They Apply to the Field of Medical Errors." Proposal #0830731 NSF 08-518, March 19. Not funded. 2008
Session chairman, Session 1: Matrix Methods and Wavelet Analysis, and Session 2: Applications of Mathematics in Communications, 10th WSEAS International Conference on Applied Mathematics, Dallas, Nov. 1-3. 2006
Yarmish, Gavriel, Danny Kopec, Ronald Eckhardt, Devon Gayle, Richard Close and Myra Kogen, co-panelists. "Innovative Approaches to Science Education." CCSC 2005, the Eastern Conference of the Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges. Iona College. New Rochelle, N.Y., Oct. 14-15. Panel appears in conference proceeedings, 21.2: 40-44. http://www.iona.edu/cs/ccsce05.html; http://www.iona.edu/cs/ccsce05/schedule.htm. 2005
