Erez Lieberman Aiden

Erez Lieberman Aiden

Erez Lieberman Aiden in 2011
Born 1980 (age 31–32)[1]
Institutions Harvard University
Alma mater Princeton University, MIT, Harvard University, Yeshiva University
Doctoral advisor Eric Lander, Martin Nowak
Notable awards Lemelson-MIT Student Prize,[2] Technology Review TR35 Young Innovators 2009[3]
Spouse Aviva Presser Aiden[2]

Erez Lieberman Aiden (formerly known as Erez Lieberman) is a fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and visiting faculty member at Google.[4] 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.[3][5][6][7] He has co-authored several articles in a wide range of disciplines,[8][9][10][11][12] 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.[2]

He developed the iShoe, a technology to assist elderly people with balance problems and prevent falls that could cause injury.[13] He has co-founded and now serves as the CEO of a company, also called iShoe,[14] established to further develop and commercialize the iShoe technology. He has also been involved in the culturomics project which built an ngram[15] viewer on top of Google Books.[16]

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.[9]

Education

Erez studied mathematics, physics, and philosophy at Princeton.[4] He then earned a Master's degree in History at Yeshiva University.[4] After graduating, he earned a PhD at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology advised by Eric Lander and Martin Nowak.[4]

References

  1. ^ Hand, E. (2011). "Culturomics: Word play". Nature 474 (7352): 436–440. doi:10.1038/474436a.  edit "at 31 years old, the precocious doyen of the emerging field known as the digital humanities" in 2011
  2. ^ a b c 2010 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize award.
  3. ^ a b MIT (September 10, 2009). 2009 Young Innovators under 35, Erez Lieberman-Aiden, 29, Harvard University/MIT., Technology Review.
  4. ^ a b c d http://www.erez.com Home page of Erez Lieberman-Aiden
  5. ^ Sara Forrest (October 27, 2008). Computational pioneer Erez Lieberman explains how the Web — and spam — evolves, Computerworld.
  6. ^ Bob Holmes (October 11, 2007). Language 'mutations' affect least-used words, New Scientist.
  7. ^ http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/06/08/the-renaissance-man-how-to-become-a-scientist-over-and-over-again/ Profile of Erez Lieberman Aiden
  8. ^ Lieberman, E.; Michel, J. B.; Jackson, J.; Tang, T.; Nowak, M. A. (2007). "Quantifying the evolutionary dynamics of language". Nature 449 (7163): 713–716. doi:10.1038/nature06137. PMC 2460562. PMID 17928859. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=2460562.  edit
  9. ^ a b Lieberman-Aiden, E.; Van Berkum, N. L.; Williams, L.; Imakaev, M.; Ragoczy, T.; Telling, A.; Amit, I.; Lajoie, B. R. et al. (2009). "Comprehensive Mapping of Long-Range Interactions Reveals Folding Principles of the Human Genome". Science 326 (5950): 289–293. doi:10.1126/science.1181369. PMC 2858594. PMID 19815776. http://www.erez.com/GenomeFoldingScience.pdf?attredirects=0.  edit
  10. ^ Mikkelsen, T. S.; Ku, M.; Jaffe, D. B.; Issac, B.; Lieberman, E.; Giannoukos, G.; Alvarez, P.; Brockman, W. et al. (2007). "Genome-wide maps of chromatin state in pluripotent and lineage-committed cells". Nature 448 (7153): 553–560. doi:10.1038/nature06008. PMC 2921165. PMID 17603471. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=2921165.  edit
  11. ^ Ohtsuki, H.; Hauert, C.; Lieberman, E.; Nowak, M. A. (2006). "A simple rule for the evolution of cooperation on graphs and social networks". Nature 441 (7092): 502–505. doi:10.1038/nature04605. PMC 2430087. PMID 16724065. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=2430087.  edit
  12. ^ Lieberman, E.; Hauert, C.; Nowak, M. A. (2005). "Evolutionary dynamics on graphs". Nature 433 (7023): 312–316. doi:10.1038/nature03204. PMID 15662424.  edit
  13. ^ ScienceDaily (July 24, 2008). Balance problems? Step into the IShoe, Science Daily.
  14. ^ iShoe website.
  15. ^ http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/ Google ngram viewer
  16. ^ Michel, J. -B.; Shen, Y. K.; Aiden, A. P.; Veres, A.; Gray, M. K.; Pickett, J. P.; Hoiberg, D.; Clancy, D. et al. (2011). "Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books". Science 331 (6014): 176–182. Bibcode 2011Sci...331..176M. doi:10.1126/science.1199644. PMID 21163965.  edit