Erez Lieberman
Encyclopedia
Erez Lieberman-Aiden is a fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows
and visiting faculty member at Google
. He has conducted pioneering work on mathematical and computational approaches to the study of biological evolution, as well as other forms of evolution through mutation and selection, including the evolution of networks and languages. He has co-authored several articles in a wide range of disciplines, some of which set the foundations of a new field — evolutionary graph theory
. In 2010, he was the winner of the Lemelson-MIT Student Prize.
He developed the iShoe, a technology to assist elderly people with balance problems and prevent falls that could cause injury. He has co-founded and now serves as the CEO of a company, also called iShoe, established to further develop and commercialize the iShoe technology. He has also been involved in the culturomics
project which built an ngram viewer on top of Google Books.
Erez co-authored a paper where a team of scientists from the Medical School of the University of Massachusetts and MIT suggested that human genomes fold into a fractal globule
.
. He then earned a Master's degree in History at Yeshiva University
,. After graduating, he earned a Ph D at Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology advised by Eric Lander
and Martin Nowak
.
Harvard Society of Fellows
The Harvard Society of Fellows is a group of scholars selected at the beginning of their careers by Harvard University for extraordinary scholarly potential, upon whom distinctive academic and intellectual opportunities are bestowed in order to foster their individual growth and intellectual...
and visiting faculty member at Google
Google
Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...
. He has conducted pioneering work on mathematical and computational approaches to the study of biological evolution, as well as other forms of evolution through mutation and selection, including the evolution of networks and languages. He has co-authored several articles in a wide range of disciplines, some of which set the foundations of a new field — evolutionary graph theory
Evolutionary graph theory
Evolutionary graph theory is an area of research lying at the intersection of graph theory, probability theory, and mathematical biology. Evolutionary graph theory is an approach to studying how topology affects evolution of a population...
. In 2010, he was the winner of the Lemelson-MIT Student Prize.
He developed the iShoe, a technology to assist elderly people with balance problems and prevent falls that could cause injury. He has co-founded and now serves as the CEO of a company, also called iShoe, established to further develop and commercialize the iShoe technology. He has also been involved in the culturomics
Culturomics
Culturomics is a form of computational lexicology that studies human behavior and cultural trends through the quantitative analysis of digitized texts. Researchers data mine large digital archives to investigate cultural phenomena reflected in language and word usage...
project which built an ngram viewer on top of Google Books.
Erez co-authored a paper where a team of scientists from the Medical School of the University of Massachusetts and MIT suggested that human genomes fold into a fractal globule
Fractal globule
A fractal globule is a proposed packing method used by cells to sequester DNA into a compact yet accessible structure that minimizes the probability of knot formation....
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Education
Erez studied mathematics, physics, and philosophy at PrincetonPrinceton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
. He then earned a Master's degree in History at Yeshiva University
Yeshiva University
Yeshiva University is a private university in New York City, with six campuses in New York and one in Israel. Founded in 1886, it is a research university ranked as 45th in the US among national universities by U.S. News & World Report in 2012...
,. After graduating, he earned a Ph D at Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology advised by Eric Lander
Eric Lander
Eric Steven Lander is a Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , a member of the Whitehead Institute, and director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard who has devoted his career toward realizing the promise of the human genome for medicine. He is co-chair of U.S...
and Martin Nowak
Martin Nowak
Martin A. Nowak is Professor of Biology and Mathematics and Director of the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics at Harvard University.-Career:Martin Nowak studied biochemistry and mathematics at the University of Vienna, and earned his Ph. D. in 1989, working with Peter Schuster on quasi-species...
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