Israeli computer scientist
Yaniv Altshuler,
(born 1978) is an Israeli computer scientist and
entrepreneur
. He is a researcher at the
MIT Media Lab
, at the Human Dynamics group headed by professor
Alex Pentland
.
In 2014 he co-founded
Endor
, an
MIT
spinoff, financially backed by
Eric Schmidt
, that offers analytics to help understand, predict, and influence the dynamics of human behavior.
Together with Pentland, Altshuler is one of the creators of
Social Physics
? a theory that describes mathematical laws that govern the behavior of human crowds.
Biography
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Altshuler received his Ph.D in Computer Science from the
Technion
in Israel, under the supervision of
Prof. Alfred Bruckstein
and
Dr. Israel Wagner
, focusing on the optimization of
Drone Swarms
. After graduating from the Technion and before arriving to
MIT
he was a post-doctoral researcher at
Deutsche Telekom Innovation Laboratories
at Ben-Gurion University
, working with the lab’s director,
Prof. Yuval Elovici
.
He is also an alumnus of the
Technion Rothschild Excellence program
.
He spent 2011-2013 as a post-doctoral researcher at
MIT
studying networks and the way they evolve and act as a medium which people use to interact. Together with
Prof. Pentland
he took part in the creation of the new science of
Social Physics
.
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Work
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Altshuler’s research interests include machine intelligence, swarm systems, urban computing and collaborative security. He edited the book
Security and Privacy in Social Networks
,
[2]
and is a co-author on the book
Swarms and Network Intelligence
.
[3]
In 2007 he has co-founded Memoraze, a start-up company in the field of behavior analysis in computer games.
His work on the way social networks can be used for improving financial trading returns,
[4]
known as “
Network Tuning
”, was the first to demonstrate how an efficient integration of a large number of insights from retail investors can significantly outperform the returns of professional investors,
[5]
as reported by Financial Times
[6]
and Harvard Business Review.
[7]
Altshuler was also the leading researcher in the “Stealing Reality
[8]
” 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
[9]
” 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,
[10]
the Communications of the ACM, and other publications.
In 2014 he co-founded Endor, an
MIT
spinoff that uses
Social Physics
for an automatic on-demand prediction of consumer behaviors,
[11]
and provides answers to plain language business questions.
[12]
The company was funded among others by
Eric Schmidt
.
Altshuler has published over 60 academic papers,
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and 15 patents.
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References
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- ^
Pentland, Alex (2015-01-01).
Social physics how social networks can make us smarter
. Penguin Books.
ISBN
9780143126331
.
OCLC
935929407
.
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Security and Privacy in Social Networks
.
ISBN
978-1493901227
.
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Swarms and Network Intelligence in Search | Yaniv Altshuler | Springer
. Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer. 2018.
ISBN
9783319636023
.
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Duhaime-Ross, Arielle.
"MIT's $1 million test to see if social media can make investors money"
.
Quartz
. Retrieved
2016-10-17
.
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"Tuning Social Networks to Gain the Wisdom of the Crowd | MIT Media Lab"
.
www.media.mit.edu
. Retrieved
2016-10-20
.
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"Markets Insight: Wake up to the #Twitter effect on markets"
.
ft.com
. Financial Times. 2013-04-18.
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"Beyond the Echo Chamber"
.
Harvard Business Review
. Retrieved
2016-10-17
.
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Altshuler, Y.; Aharony, N.; Pentland, A.; Elovici, Y.; Cebrian, M. (2011-11-01). "Stealing Reality: When Criminals Become Data Scientists (or Vice Versa)".
IEEE Intelligent Systems
.
26
(6): 22?30.
doi
:
10.1109/MIS.2011.78
.
ISSN
1541-1672
.
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Altshuler, Yaniv; Fire, Michael; Shmueli, Erez; Elovici, Yuval; Bruckstein, Alfred; Pentland, Alex (Sandy); Lazer, David (2013-08-01).
"The Social Amplifier?Reaction of Human Communities to Emergencies"
.
Journal of Statistical Physics
.
152
(3): 399?418.
doi
:
10.1007/s10955-013-0759-z
.
hdl
:
1721.1/85200
.
ISSN
0022-4715
.
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"Malware Aimed at Social Networks May Steal Your Reality"
.
PCWorld
. Retrieved
2016-10-17
.
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Miller, Ron (Mar 8, 2017).
"Endor emerges from MIT research with unique predictive analytics tech"
.
TechCrunch
.
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"Inventing the "Google" for predictive analytics"
.
MIT News
. Retrieved
2017-12-26
.
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"Yaniv Altshuler - Google Scholar Citations"
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scholar.google.com
. Retrieved
2016-10-17
.
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"Yaniv Altshuler's Patents"
.
Google
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