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Moshe Haviv holds a BSc. (1979) in mathematics from Tel Aviv University, and MA (1982) and PhD (1983) in operations research from Yale University. He joined the department of statistics at the Hebrew University in 1984 and with some intermissions, mostly at the University of British Columbia and at the University of Sydney, has been there since, serving as head of department in 2008–2012. He retired as Professor in 2020, when he joined the School of Data Science at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. He was also the president of the Operations Research Society of Israel, 2012–2015.

His research areas are queueing systems in general and strategic decision making in queues, in particular. Other areas of interest are numerical issues in large Markov chains, and Markov decision processes. Among his publications are a book titled To queue or not to queue: Equilibrium behaviour in queueing systems, co-authored with Refael Hassin and published by Kluwer in 2003; and a textbook Queues: A Course in Queueing Theory (2013) by Springer. He has also published 85 research papers in refereed journals.