Yaniv Mordecai is a post-doctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Laboratory. He holds a Ph.D. in information systems engineering from Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel (2016), and M.Sc. (2010, cum laude) and B.Sc. (2002) degrees in industrial engineering & management from Tel-Aviv University, Israel. His research interests include model-based systems engineering, model analytics, cybernetics, interoperable systems, risk and decision analysis, and operations research. Dr. Mordecai is a senior member of IEEE and a Board Member of the Israeli Society for Systems Engineering. In 2017, he won the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society Outstanding Ph.D. Diploma Award in Systems Science and Engineering, as well as the OmegaAlpha Association’s Exemplary Systems Engineering Dissertation Award. Three of his articles have received “Best Paper” Awards in journals and conference.