About Me

I am Gal Neria, an MIT Sloan Postdoctoral Associate and MIT-Kalaniyot Postdoctoral Fellow.

My research primarily explores the integration of operations research and machine learning, with a focus on real-time optimization of dynamic stochastic combinatorial systems.

I completed my PhD in the Industrial Engineering department at Tel Aviv University, advised by Professor Michal Tzur (2020-2025). I previously completed my M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering with Summa Cum Laude honors at Tel Aviv University (2017-2019). My thesis explored the Dynamic and Stochastic Humanitarian Pickup and Distribution Problem (guided by Professor Michal Tzur).

Contact: galneria[at]mit[dot]edu , GoogleScholar, LinkedIn

Publications

Honors

Teaching

Workshops & Conferences

Publications

Neria, G., and Tzur, M., 2024. The Dynamic Pickup and Allocation with Fairness Problem. Transportation Science 58(4):821-840.

Neria, G., Hildebrandt, F.D., Tzur, M. and Ulmer, M.W., 2025. The Restaurant Meal Delivery Problem with Ghost Kitchens. Transportation Science 59(2):433-450.

Neria, G., Tzur, M., and Ulmer, M. “A General Decomposition Framework for

Dynamic Two-Stage Order Fulfillment Problems”. Submitted.

Neria, G., and Tzur, M. "The Dynamic Sequential Pickup and Fair

Allocation Problem”. Submitted.

Zeidan, R., Neria, G., and Meyer, J. "When Fake News Fakes: Foiling Feature-Based Attacks on Algorithmic Fake News Detection". Submitted.

Honors

Finalist in the 2025 INFORMS TSL Dissertation Award Competition. The TSL Dissertation Award is the oldest and most prestigious honor for doctoral dissertations in the Transportation Science and Logistics field.

MIT‑Kalaniyot Postdoctoral Fellow (2025-27)

Selected for the 2025 ISyE-MS&E-IOE Rising Stars Workshop (Georgia Tech, Stanford, UMich) – declined due to schedule conflict.

Scholarship for Outstanding women doctoral students in the hi‑tech field awarded by the Council for Higher Education in Israel (VATAT), 2022-25

Best Paper by a Graduate Student in Operations Research, the Abraham Mehrez Prize on behalf of ORSIS, 2022

First prize in the Modeling Challenge of The EURO HOpe summer school on humanitarian logistics, 2021

Best student paper (1st prize) at the 22nd industrial engineering and management national conference of Israel, 2021

Scholarship for Excellent doctoral students awarded by KLA, 2023

Excellence Scholarship awarded by the ISTRC, 2021-24

Scholarship for Excellent Achievements awarded by the faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, 2019

Excellence Scholarship awarded by the Shlomo Shmelzter institute for smart transportation, 2021-23

Dean’s Honor List ‑ 3rd and 4th year of B.Sc., 2017-18

Teaching

Teaching assistant (frontal) at the Industrial Engineering department, Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv, Israel (2017 ‑ 2025)

Tutoring graduate and undergraduate required courses: ”Corporate Finance”, ”Applied Optimization for Engineers”, ”Analysis of Inventory Systems”

and ”Analysis of Production System”.

Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching (2022)

Workshops & Conferences

The Informs Annual Meeting on Operations Research (presenter) 2025. Invited session under the "Urban Transportation" SIG, Cluster of TSL.

The 12th Triennial Symposium on Transportation Analysis conference (TRISTAN XII) 2025

(acceptance rate ‑ 30%) (presenter)

Graph Learning Meets Theoretical Computer Science, Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, UC Berkeley, 2025.

Learning on Graphs (LOG) Conference 2024

The INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics Society Workshop 2024 (presenter)

The Informs Transportation Science and Logistics Society Conference (presenter) 2023

The Informs Annual Meeting on Operations Research (presenter) 2022. Invited session "Transportation Logistics for Social Good", Cluster of TSL and Public Sector OR.

Advanced Course on Data Science (ACDL) and Machine Learning, 2022, Tuscany, Italy

The EURO PhD School on Data Driven Decision Making and Optimization, 2022, IMUS, Spain.

The ODYSSEUS workshop on Logistics and Freight Transportation (presenter) 2022

ORSIS (Operations Research Society of Israel) annual conference (presenter) 2022

The 2nd ISTRC Students Conference (presenter and session chair) 2021