Professor (Ph.D) Yuval Cohen is a Senior Faculty Member at the Industrial Engineering department of the Tel-Aviv Afeka College of Engineering. He is a vice chair of IFAC Technical Committee (TC) 5.1 "Manufacturing Plant Control". Previously, he was the Head of the Industrial Engineering program at the Open University of Israel. His areas of expertise are in the intersection of intelligent and advanced manufacturing, Industry 4.0, operations management, and logistics and operations research. He has published more than 70 papers on these subjects. Prior to is academic career, Professor Yuval Cohen served several years as a Senior Operations Planner at FedEx Ground (USA), responsible for the five-year plan for 24 hubs and 400 terminals. He received several awards for his contributions to hub and terminal network planning. In 2001, he returned to Israel to establish and manage the Industrial Engineering program, and in 2014 he moved to Afeka Tel-Aviv Academic College of Engineering. He received his PhD from the University of Pittsburgh (USA), his MSc from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, and BSc from Ben-Gurion University. Dr Cohen is a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) and a Full Member of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS).