Yaniv Erlich

Yaniv Erlich
Alma mater Watson School of Biological Sciences
Scientific career
Fields Genomics, Bioinformatics, Genetic Privacy, Crowdsourcing,
Institutions Columbia University
Doctoral advisor Greg Hannon
Website https://teamerlich.org/

Yaniv Erlich is an Israeli-American scientist. He is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University and the Chief Science Officer of MyHeritage.[1] Erlich's work combines computer science and genomics.

Biography

Erlich was born in Israel. He earned BSc in Brain Sciences in 2006 from Tel Aviv University and a PhD in bioinformatics in 2010 from Watson School of Biological Sciences at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. From 2010 to 2015, Erlich was a Fellow at the Whitehead Institute, MIT. Since 2015, he leads a lab at Columbia University in computational genomics [2]

Scientific work

World's largest family tree

Erlich's team published a study in the journal Science that reported crowd-sourcing of tens of millions of genealogical records from the website Geni.com[3]. The team was able to create a single family tree of 13 million people that are all connected and spans tens of generations and over 600 years of history[4]. The study used the data to analyze the genetics of longevity and familial dispersion[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Erlich lab's website".
  2. ↑ "TEDxDanubia speakers".
  3. ↑ "Quantitative analysis of population-scale family trees with millions of relatives".
  4. ↑ "Crowdsourcing 600 Years of Human History".
  5. ↑ "WSJ".
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