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Thesis Multi-Agent Robotics in Dynamic Environments Doctoral advisor Prof. Alfred Bruckstein and Dr. Israel Wagner Known for Social Physics, Swarm Intelligence, Information diffusion models in Social Networks Alma maters Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology Institutions Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology | ||
Rethinking predictive analytics yaniv altshuler endor firstmark s data driven
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 Prof. Alex “Sandy” Pentland.
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- Rethinking predictive analytics yaniv altshuler endor firstmark s data driven
- Biography
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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 Prof. Pentland, Altshuler is one of the creators of Social Physics – a theory that describes mathematical laws that govern the behavior of human crowds.
Biography
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 Lab, 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.
Work
Altshuler’s research interests include machine intelligence, swarm systems, urban computing and collaborative security. He edited the book Security and Privacy in Social Networks, and is a co-author on the upcoming book Swarms and Network Intelligence.
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, 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, as reported by Financial Times and Harvard Business Review.
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 Communication of the ACM, and other publications.
In 2014 he co-founded Endor, an MIT Spin-off that uses Social Physics for an automatic on-demand prediction of consumers behaviors. The company was funded among others by Eric Schmidt.
Altshuler has published over 60 academic papers, and 15 patents.