Associate Professor Yoni Nazarathy

Senior Lecturer & Associate Professor

Mathematics

+61 7 3346 9032

+61 7 334 69032

y.nazarathy@uq.edu.au

Priestley Building #67, Room 545

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Teaching and learning

Dr Nazarathy teaches 2nd year statistics and postgraduate mathematics for data science. He also coordinates the School's industry placement scheme.

Featured projects	Duration
Approximate Analysis and Control of Overflow Queuing Networks
Convolutions in the S-Plane with Applications
Data Analysis of Melbourne's Urban Road Traffic
Effective Computing in Model Predictive Control for Urban Road Traffic Networks
Interactive Demonstrations using Mathematica
Ruin Theory and Correlated Random Walks
Statistical Estimation of Matrix Analytic Queueing Models
System Identification Theory for Queuing Networks
The Positive Realization Problem

Publications

Book Chapter (1)

Journal Articles (18)

Conference Papers (14)

Book Chapter

Kuhn, Julia and Nazarathy, Yoni (2017). Wireless channel selection with restless bandits. In Richard J. Boucherie and Nico M. van Dijk (Ed.), Markov decision processes in practice (pp. 463-485) Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-47766-4_18

Journal Articles

Thomas, Ebby, Sharma, Rahul and Nazarathy, Yoni (2019) Towards demand side management control using household specific Markovian models. Automatica, 101 450-457. doi:10.1016/j.automatica.2018.11.057

Ravner, Liron and Nazarathy, Yoni (2017) Scheduling for a processor sharing system with linear slowdown. Mathematical Methods of Operations Research, 86 1: 1-32. doi:10.1007/s00186-017-0583-3

Liquet, Benoit and Nazarathy, Yoni (2015) A dynamic view to moment matching of truncated distributions. Statistics and Probability Letters, 104 87-93. doi:10.1016/j.spl.2015.05.006

Patch, Brendan, Nazarathy, Yoni and Taimre, Thomas (2015) A correction term for the covariance of renewal-reward processes with multivariate rewards. Statistics and Probability Letters, 102 1-7. doi:10.1016/j.spl.2015.03.005

Hautphenne, Sophie, Kerner, Yoav, Nazarathy, Yoni and Taylor, Peter (2015) The intercept term of the asymptotic variance curve for some queueing output processes. European Journal of Operational Research, 242 2: 455-464. doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2014.10.051

Daley, D. J., van Leeuwaarden, Johan S. H. and Nazarathy, Yoni (2015) BRAVO for many-server QED systems with finite buffers. Advances in Applied Probability, 47 1: 231-250.

Dinh, Tuan V., Andrew, Lachlan L. H. and Nazarathy, Yoni (2014) Architecture and robustness tradeoffs in speed-scaled queues with application to energy management. International Journal of Systems Science, 45 8: 1728-1739. doi:10.1080/00207721.2012.749435

Guo, Yongjiang, Lefeber, Erjen, Nazarathy, Yoni, Weiss, Gideon and Zhang, Hanqin (2014) Stability of multi-class queueing networks with infinite virtual queues. Queueing Systems, 76 3: 309-342. doi:10.1007/s11134-013-9362-x

Le, Tung, Vu, Hai L., Nazarathy, Yoni, Vo, Quoc Bao and Hoogendoorn, Serge (2013) Linear-quadratic model predictive control for urban traffic networks. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 36 498-512. doi:10.1016/j.trc.2013.06.021

Nazarathy, Yoni, Rojas-Nandayapa, Leonardo and Salisbury, Thomas S. (2013) Non-existence of stabilizing policies for the critical push-pull network and generalizations. Operations Research Letters, 41 3: 265-270. doi:10.1016/j.orl.2013.01.013

Dong, Wei, Vu, Hai L., Nazarathy, Yoni, Vo, Bao Quoc, Li, Minyi and Hoogendoorn, Serge Paul (2013) Shortest paths in stochastic time-dependent networks with link travel time correlation. Transportation Research Record, 2338 2338: 58-64. doi:10.3141/2338-07

Nazarathy, Yoni (2011) The variance of departure processes: Puzzling behavior and open problems. Queueing Systems, 68 3: 385-394. doi:10.1007/s11134-011-9249-7

Al Hanbali, A., Mandjes, M., Nazarathy, Y. and Whitt, W. (2011) The asymptotic variance of departures in critically loaded queues. Advances In Applied Probability, 43 1: 243-263. doi:10.1239/aap/1300198521

Nazarathy, Yoni and Weiss, Gideon (2010) A fluid approach to large volume job shop scheduling. Journal of Scheduling, 13 5: 509-529. doi:10.1007/s10951-010-0174-0

Nazarathy, Yoni and Weiss, Gideon (2010) Positive Harris recurrence and diffusion scale analysis of a push pull queueing network. Performance Evaluation, 67 4: 201-217. doi:10.1016/j.peva.2009.09.010

Nazarathy, Yoni and Weiss, Gideon (2009) Near optimal control of queueing networks over a finite time horizon. Annals of Operations Research, 170 1: 233-249. doi:10.1007/s10479-008-0443-x

Kopzon, Anat, Nazarathy, Yoni and Weiss, Gideon (2009) A push-pull system with infinite supply of work. Queueing Systems, 62 1-2: 75-111. doi:10.1007/s11134-009-9121-1

Nazarathy, Yoni and Weiss, Gideon (2008) The asymptotic variance rate of the output process of finite capacity birth-death queues. Queueing Systems, 59 2: 135-156. doi:10.1007/s11134-008-9079-4

Conference Papers

Fu, Jing, Nazarathy, Yoni, Moka, Sarat and Taylor, Peter G. (2019). Towards Q-learning the whittle index for restless bandits. In: 2019 Australian and New Zealand Control Conference (ANZCC 2019). 2019 Australian and New Zealand Control Conference (ANZCC), Auckland, New Zealand, (249-254). 27-29 November 2019. doi:10.1109/ANZCC47194.2019.8945748

Diao, Jiahao, Nazarathy, Yoni , Taimre, Thomas and Filar, Jerzy A. (2017). To fish or cut bait?. In: 2017 Asian Control Conference, ASCC 2017. 2017 11th Asian Control Conference (ASCC), Gold Coast, QLD, Australia, (2473-2477). 17 - 20 December 2017. doi:10.1109/ASCC.2017.8287563

Thomas, Ebby, Sharma, Rahul and Nazarathy, Yoni (2017). Implementation of energy storage Systems for solar PV ramp stabilization. In: 2017 Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference (AUPEC). Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference (AUPEC), Melbourne, Australia, (1-5). 19 - 22 November 2017. doi:10.1109/AUPEC.2017.8282422

Asanjarani, Azam and Nazarathy, Yoni (2016). A queueing approximation of MMPP/PH/1. In: Tien van Do, Yutaka Takahashi, Wuyi Yue and Viet-Ha Nguyen, Queueing Theory and Network Applications. 10th International Conference on Queueing Theory and Network Applications (QTNA 2015), Ha Noi and Ha Long, Vietnam, (41-51). 17-20 August 2015. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-22267-7_4

Patch, Brendan, Taimre, Thomas and Nazarathy, Yoni (2015). Performance of faulty loss systems with persistent connections. In: 33rd International Symposium on Computer Performance, Modeling, Measurement, and Evaluation, IFIP WG 7.3 Performance 2015. 33rd International Symposium on Computer Performance, Modeling, Measurement, and Evaluation, IFIP WG 7.3 Performance 2015, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (16-18). 19 - 21 October 2015. doi:10.1145/2825236.2825242

Nazarathy, Yoni, Taimre, Thomas, Asanjarani, Azam, Kuhn, Julia, Patch, Brendan and Vuorinen, Aapeli (2015). The challenge of stabilizing control for queueing systems with unobservable server states. In: Proceedings of 2015 Australian Control Conference (AUCC 2015). Australian Control Conference (AUCC), Gold Coast, QLD, Australia, (342-347). 5-6 November 2015.

Kuhn, Julia, Mandjes, Michel and Nazarathy, Yoni (2014). Exploration vs exploitation with partially observable Gaussian autoregressive arms. In: Valuetools '14: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools. Valuetools, Bratislava, Slovakia, (209-216). 9-11 December 2014. doi:10.4108/icst.valuetools.2014.258207

Dong, Wei, Vu, Hai L., Nazarathy, Yoni, Vo, Bao Quoc, Li, Minyi and Hoogendoorn, Serge Paul (2013). Shortest paths in stochastic time-dependent networks with link travel time correlation. In: TRB 92nd Annual Meeting: Compendium of Papers DVD. Transportation Research Board (TRB) 92nd Annual Meeting, Washington, United States, (1-17). 13-17 January 2013.

Selen, Jori, Nazarathy, Yoni, Andrew, Lachlan L. H. and Vu, Hai L. (2013). The age of information in gossip networks. In: Alexander Dudin and Koen De Turck, Analytical and Stochastic Modelling Techniques and Applications - 20th International Conference, ASMTA 2013, Proceedings. 20th International Conference on Analytical and Stochastic Modelling Techniques and Applications, ASMTA 2013, Ghent, Belgium, (364-379). 8 - 10 July 2013. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-39408-9_26

Di Lucente, S., Nazarathy, Y., Calabretta, N., Raz, O. and Dorren, H. (2011). Thousand-port optical packet switch architecture with highly distributed control. In: 2011 37th European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication (ECOC). Proceedings. European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication (37th, ECOC, 2011), Geneva, Switzerland, (). 18-22 September 2011.

Calabretta, Nicola, Di Lucente, Stefano, Nazarathy, Yoni, Raz, Oded and Dorren, Harmen (2011). Scalable optical packet switch architecture for low latency and high load computer communication networks. In: Marek Jaworski and Marian Marciniak, 2011 13th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, ICTON 2011, Proceedings. 13th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON 2011), Stockholm, Sweden, (1-4). 26-30 June 2011. doi:10.1109/ICTON.2011.5971139

Dorren, H. J. S., Di Lucente, S., Raz, O., Calabretta, N. and Nazarathy, Y. (2011). Scaling photonic packet switches to a large number of ports. In: Proceedings of the 2011 ICO International Conference on Information Photonics. ICO International Conference on Information Photonics (IP 2011), Ottawa, Canada, (1-2). 18-20 May 2011. doi:10.1109/ICO-IP.2011.5953706

van Leeuwaarden, Johan S. H., Lefeber, Erjen, Nazarathy, Yoni and Rooda, Jacobus E. (2010). Model predictive control for the acquisition queue and related queueing networks. In: Jinting Wang, Wuyi Yue and Yutaka Takahashi, QTNA '10: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Queueing Theory and Network Applications. 5th International Conference on Queueing Theory and Network Applications (QTNA 2010), Beijing, China, (193-200). 24-26 July 2010. doi:10.1145/1837856.1837884

Hoekstra, Gerard, van der Mei, Rob, Nazarathy, Yoni and Zwart, Bert (2009). Optimal file splitting for wireless networks with concurrent access. In: Rudesindo Núñez-Queija and Jacques Resing, Network Control and Optimization, Proceedings. 3rd Euro-NF Conference on Network Control and Optimization, NET-COOP 2009, Eindhoven, Netherlands, (189-203). 23-25 November 2009. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-10406-0_13

Areas of research

Applied mathematics

Operations research

Statistics and probability