Harvard University
Applied Mathematics
2008 - present
Erez is currently a graduate student in Applied Mathematics at Harvard and a student at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Science and Technology. His interests span the theoretical and applied sciences.
Erez is fascinated by the possibility of enhancing the human senses. His wearable artificial intelligence systems are in use today by NASA astronauts, and are being developed for the next generation space suit. Popular Mechanics recently named his work on the iShoe, a system for enhancing human balance, one of the top twenty ‘medical advances that push biology to its limits-and beyond.’
Erez discovered evolutionary graph theory, a novel approach to population genetics. The work, which (according to the journal Nature) ‘fizzes with breathtaking brio’ has since become a widely-used approach for unraveling the effects of structure on Darwinian evolution.
Erez recently showed that the emergence of linguistic rules over the centuries follows an inverse-square principle, the first clear proof that natural selection applies to the evolution of language. This paper appeared on the cover of Nature and was chosen by the editors as one of the best papers of the year.
Erez is currently working on several new technologies for probing the functional state of the human genome. His work has been described by thousands of newspapers in over 40 countries and 20 languages.
