Career
During his career, Rubinstein has made fundamental and important contributions in these fields and has advanced the theory and application of adaptive importance sampling, rare event simulation, stochastic optimization, sensitivity analysis of simulation-based models, the splitting method, and counting problems concerning Natural Philosophy-complete problems. His citation index is in the top 5% among his colleagues in operations research and management sciences. His 1981 book "Simulation and the Monte Carlo Method", Wiley (second edition 2007, with DP Kroese) alone has over 4,400 citations.
He has held visiting positions in various research institutes, including Columbia University, Harvard University, Stanford University, International Business Machines Corporation and Bell Laboratories.
He has given invited and plenary lectures in many international conferences around the globe.