Dr. Michal Koren

Dr. Michal Koren is an industrial engineer and graduate of the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management. She specializes in fashion forecasting, management of supply chains and forecasting models. She also lectures at the School of Industrial Engineering and Management.

Dr. Koren completed her PhD at the Faculty of Administration at Bar Ilan University. As part of her doctoral thesis she is developing a mathematical model for forecasting fashion trends, while placing an emphasis on minimal costs in the supply chain and customer sensitivity to product substitutability. Prior to that, she completed her master's degree at Bar Ilan University with honors and her bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering and Management at Shenkar.

Michal is deputy dean at the School of Industrial Engineering and Management.

She is member steering committee for the National Hackathon in Industrial Engineering & Management, Design and Software.

As part of her academic roles at the School of Industrial Engineering and Management, Michal teaches courses in statistics, operation research, performance analysis and business intelligence. She also lectures in her fields of expertise at Afeka College in Tel Aviv and at the Open University.

Conferences in which Michal has participated:

• The Global Fashion Management Conference, held in Florence, Italy.
• Eighth European Academic Research Conference on Global Business, Economics, Finance and Social Science, held in Athens, Greece.
• The 25th IJCIEOM - International Joint Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, held in Novi Sad, Serbia.
• The 21st Conference of Industrial Engineering and Management, held in Tel Aviv, Israel.
• The 10th IFAC Conference on Manufacturing Modelling, Management and Control, held in Nantes, France.

Her latest publications:

• Koren, M., Harison, E., & Shnaiderman, M., 2015, 'Identifying Future Variants of Fashion Demand: A Trend Forecasting Model Minimizing Supply Chain Costs', Global Fashion Management Conference, Florence, Italy. 24-28 June 2015.
• Koren, M., Harison, E., & Shnaiderman, M., 2017, 'Inventory Management which Depends upon the Demand for Alternative Colors', Eighth European Academic Research Conference on Global Business, Economics, Finance and Social Science, Athens, Greece. 12-14 July 2017.
• Koren, M., 2019, 'The Social Side of Big Data', in proceedings of the 21th Conference of Industrial Engineering and Management (IE&M 2019), Eds. Menipaz E., Bukchin Y., Dror S., Cohen, I ,Baron Y. & Kurman A., Tel Aviv, Israel, 1 April, pp. 40.
• Koren, O., Perel, N., & Koren, M., 2019, 'The Impact of Merged Data in Big Data Platform: A Case Study', in proceedings of the 25th IJCIEOM - International Joint Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, Eds. Anisic Z., Lalic B. & Gracanin D., Novi Sad, Serbia. 15-17 July 2019, pp 87-88.
• Koren, M., Perelman, Y., & Shnaiderman, M., 2019, 'The Effect of Color Assortment and Using Social Media on the Inventory Management', in proceedings of the 25th IJCIEOM - International Joint Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management Engineering and Management, Eds. Anisic Z., Lalic B. & Gracanin D., Novi Sad, Serbia. 15-17 July 2019, pp 85-86.
• Harison, E. & Koren, M., 2019, 'Identifying Future Demand in Fashion Goods: Towards Data Driven Trend Forecasting', Journal of Textile Science and Fashion Technology, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 1- 3