Research Fellow in Computational Social Science, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
Taha Yasseri is a Research Fellow in Computational Social Science at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. He 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 the OII, he spent two years as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, working on the socio-physical aspects of the community of Wikipedia editors, focusing on conflict and editorial wars, along with Big Data analysis to understand human dynamics, language complexity, and popularity spread.
The cognitive bias that tripped us up during the pandemic
Feb 02, 2022 09:15 am UTC| Insights & Views
The human brain is a marvellous machine, capable of handling complex information. To help us make sense of information quickly and make rapid decisions, it has learned to use shortcuts, called heuristics. Most of the time,...
Never mind killer robots – even the good ones are scarily unpredictable
Aug 27, 2017 04:41 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
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The internet is enabling scientists to understand how 'collective memory' works
Apr 30, 2017 14:13 pm UTC| Insights & Views Science Technology
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