Erez Lieberman Aiden
Erez Lieberman Aiden (born 1980, né Erez Lieberman) is an American research scientist active in multiple fields related to applied mathematics. He is an associate professor at the Baylor College of Medicine, and formerly a fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and visiting faculty member at Google. He is an adjunct assistant professor of computer science at Rice University. Using mathematical and computational approaches, he has studied evolution in a range of contexts, including that of networks through evolutionary graph theory and languages in the field of culturomics. He has published scientific articles in a variety of disciplines.
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Lieberman Aiden in 2011 | |
| Born | Erez Lieberman 1980 (age 43–44) |
| Alma mater | Princeton University (BS) Yeshiva University (MA) Harvard University (PhD) |
| Spouse |
Aviva Presser Aiden (m. 2005) |
| Awards | Lemelson–MIT Student Prize, Technology Review TR35 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Applied mathematics Molecular Biology Biophysics |
| Institutions | Baylor College of Medicine |
| Thesis | Evolution and the Emergence of Structure (2010) |
| Doctoral advisor | Eric Lander Martin Nowak |
| Website | erez |
Lieberman Aiden has won awards including the Lemelson–MIT Student Prize and the American Physical Society's Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Research in Biological Physics. In 2009, Lieberman Aiden was named as one of 35 top innovators under 35 by Technology Review and in 2011 he was one of the recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.