Dr Taha Yasseri is Associate Professor of Sociology at University College Dublin and former Senior Research Fellow in Computational Social Science at University of Oxford and Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute for Data Science and AI.

Dr Yasseri graduated from the Department of Physics at the Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2005, where he also obtained his MSc in 2006, working on localization in scale free complex networks. In 2007, he moved to the Institute of Theoretical Physics at the University of Göttingen, Germany, where he completed his PhD in Complex Systems Physics in 2010. Prior to coming to Oxford, he spent two years as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics.