Gideon Weiss is Professor emeritus at the Department of Statistics, University of Haifa, Israel. He studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Technion, Haifa, and obtained his Ph.D. at Imperial College London with Professor Sir David R. Cox . Previous to Haifa he was on the faculty of the Technion Israel, Georgia Tech Atlanta, and Tel Aviv University, and has visited USC, NYU, Stanford, MIT and Berkeley. His current research interests are in optimization, working on continuous linear programs, and in applied probability working on fluid approximation of multi-class queueing networks, and on matching problems.