Ron Kenett

Professor Ron Kenett is Chairman of the KPA Group, Israel, Chairman of the Data Science Society at AEAI, Senior Research Fellow at the Samuel Neaman Institute, Technion, Haifa, Israel. and Research Professor at the University of Turin, Italy. He is an applied statistician combining expertise in academic, consulting and business domains. Ron is member of the Public Advisory Council for Statistics Israel, member of the INFORMS QSR advisory board, member of the advisory board of DSRC, the University of Haifa Data Science Research Center and member of the board of directors in several start-up companies. He is Past President of the Israel Statistical Association (ISA) and of the European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics (ENBIS), authored and co-authored over 300 papers and 18 books on topics such as data science, industrial statistics, biostatistics, healthcare, customer surveys, multivariate quality control, risk management, system and software testing, and information quality. The KPA Group he founded in 1994, is a leading Israeli firm focused on generating insights through analytics. He was awarded the 2013 Greenfield Medal by the Royal Statistical Society and, in 2018, the Box Medal by the European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics, in 2022, the life achievement award by the Israel Society for Quality and, in 2026, the Deming medal from the American Society for Quality. BSc in Mathematics (with first class honors) from Imperial College, London University and PhD in Mathematics from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.