Yaniv Altshuler, (; born 1978) is an entrepreneur and an
MIT
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Artificial Intelligence researcher.
Together with MIT Prof.
Alex Pentland
Alex Paul "Sandy" Pentland (born 1951) is an American computer scientist, HAI Fellow at Stanford, Toshiba Professor at MIT, and serial entrepreneur.
Education
Pentland received his bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan and obtaine ...
, Altshuler is one of the creators of
Social Physics
Social physics or sociophysics is a field of science which uses mathematical tools inspired by physics to understand the behavior of human crowds. In a modern commercial use, it can also refer to the analysis of social phenomena with big data.
Soc ...
a mathematical theory that describes statistical laws that model the behavior of human crowds, applicable in fields such as financial data analytics and homeland security.
Altshuler serves as Founder and CEO o
Alphabiome.ai Alphabiome uses advanced and proprietary AI-driven microbiome analytics technology to extract genetic biomarkers from microbial DNA at scale.
Biography
Altshuler received his Ph.D. in computer science from the
Technion in Israel, working wit
Prof. Alfred Brucksteinan
Dr. Israel Wagner focusing on the study of decentralized intelligence, such as the optimization of
Drone Swarms.
Altshuler is also an alumnus of the
Technion Rothschild Excellence program.
He spent 2011-2013 as a post-doctoral researcher at
MIT
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focusing on the development of decentralized scalable AI algorithms and network intelligence. Together with
Prof. Pentland he took part in the creation of the new science of
Social Physics
Social physics or sociophysics is a field of science which uses mathematical tools inspired by physics to understand the behavior of human crowds. In a modern commercial use, it can also refer to the analysis of social phenomena with big data.
Soc ...
.
In 2014 Yaniv co-founded Endor, an
MIT
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spinoff financially backed by former Google CEO
Eric Schmidt
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, using
Social Physics
Social physics or sociophysics is a field of science which uses mathematical tools inspired by physics to understand the behavior of human crowds. In a modern commercial use, it can also refer to the analysis of social phenomena with big data.
Soc ...
to offer advanced analytics capabilities in the fields of finance and homeland security.
Altshuler currently serves as the founder and CEO of Alphabiome.ai. Alphabiome’s technology is based on novel algorithms that use AI for deciphering the genetic code of microbiome samples. In addition to MIT
Prof. Alex Pentland, the company’s scientific leadership includes Stanford Chemistry Nobel Laureate
Prof. Roger Kornberg and Stanford Chemistry Nobel Laureate
Prof. Michael Levitt.
Scientific Work
Altshuler’s academic research has been focused on artificial intelligence and network theory.
Altshuler has published three books (''Security and Privacy in Social Networks'', ''Swarms and Network Intelligence in Search'' and ''Applied Swarm Intelligence,'' over 70 academic papers and 20 patents in the field of AI.
Altshuler was also the leading researcher in the “Stealing Reality” project that had shown how anonymized phone data can be used to accurately reveal personal information about the phone users, as well as the “Social Amplifier” project, that demonstrated the usage of real-time analysis of billions of phone calls for homeland security. This research was covered by AOL news, PC World,
the Communications of the ACM, and other publications.
Altshuler was awarded the IEEE SocialCom Outstanding Leadership Award and was named a Technological Pioneer by the World Economic Forum in 2017.
References
External links
MIT Home Page of Altshuler*
Social Physics homepageat
MIT Media Lab
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Social Physics research and videosSocial Physics in Finance - video of Altshuler discussing the new scienceSocial Physics YouTube video channelStealing Reality: When Criminals Become Data Scientists - Extended AbstractEndor Home PageFirstMark - Rethinking Predictive Analytics - video of Altshuler's presentationAlphabiome.ai
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1978 births
Living people
Israeli computer scientists
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology alumni