Professor Issachar Gilad was a member of the Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, where he headed the Work Study & Ergonomics Laboratory for 35 years. His professional interests were in the areas of Methods Engineering and Ergonomics. He was involved in the design of Man-Machine Processes, Systems Productivity, Human Performance Analysis, Occupational Biomechanics, and Rehabilitation Engineering. Professor Gilad received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Industrial Engineering and Management from the Technion, and a Ph.D. degree in Ergonomics and BioMechanics from New York University. Over the years, he was invited as a Visiting Professor and Research Scholar to the Univ. of Michigan, UC Berkeley, Penn State Univ. in the USA, National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan, and Cambridge University in the UK.

Professor Gilad was the former Chairman of the Israel Ergonomics Society. He was active on International Advisory Boards and a member of numerous Editorial Boards in Scientific Journals in the areas of Industrial Engineering and Ergonomics. His academic record encompassed more than 120 publications in Professional journals and peer-reviewed book chapters. Professor Gilad supervised numerous students in research theses in engineering, Master and Doctor of Science levels in Israel and in the USA.