Professor Ron Kenett is Senior Research Fellow at the Samuel Neaman Institute, Technion, Haifa, Israelת Chairman of the KPA Group, Israel, Chairman of the Data Science Society at AEAI and Research Professor at the University of Turin, Italy.
He is an applied statistician combining expertise in academic, consulting and business domains. Ron is member of the Public Advisory Council for Statistics Israel, member of the of the executive academic council, Wingate academic college for sports education, member of the INFORMS QSR advisory board, member of the advisory board of DSRC, the University of Haifa Data Science Research Center and member of the board of directors in several start-up companies.
He is Past President of the Israel Statistical Association (ISA) and of the European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics (ENBIS), authored and co-authored over 250 papers and 16 books on topics such as data science, industrial statistics, biostatistics, healthcare, customer surveys, multivariate quality control, risk management, system and software testing, and information quality.
The KPA Group he founded in 1994, is a leading Israeli firm focused on generating insights through analytics. He was awarded the 2013 Greenfield Medal by the Royal Statistical Society and, in 2018, the Box Medal by the European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics. BSc in Mathematics (with first class honors) from Imperial College, London University and PhD in Mathematics from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
Video recordings of Ron’s lectures
Benevolent community
“Benevolent Community – for Social Mobility, Community Resilience, and Quality of Life – in the 21st Century”
National resilience
The way the Covid pandemic has been addressed in Israel has raised significant issues regarding the decision-making process at the national, community and personal level. This project aims at addressing such challenges at the conceptual level. We propose a three tier approach addressing the national, community and personal level.
'Community and Career Center for Converters to Secularism' – Evaluation Study
This is an evaluation study, of the Formative Assessment nature, focusing on the program 'Community and Career Center for Former Haredim'. The program aims at creating a supportive community for lapsed Haredim, to diminish education and cultural gaps and to assist their integration within the secular society.
