Haya Kaspi (born 6 October 1948) is an Israeli

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er,

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, and probability theorist. She is a

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and management at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.

Education and career

Kaspi was born in

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. She earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics at the

Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...

in 1971, and a master's degree in

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at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in 1974. Next, she went to the US for her doctoral studies, completing a Ph.D. in

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in 1979. Her dissertation, ''Ladder Sets of Markov Additive Processes'', was supervised by

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. After postdoctoral study at

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, she returned to the Technion in 1980 as a lecturer. She was promoted to full professor in 1997.

Recognition

In 2008, Kaspi was selected as a Fellow of the

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"for contributions to the general theory of Markov processes and its applications, to the theory of Markov local time; and for excellence in teaching and editorial work". In 2011, Kaspi and

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shared the of the

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for their joint work on permanental

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es (processes whose joint intensity can be represented as a

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