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Fellow Short Talks: Dr Taha Yasseri, Oxford University

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 with an MSc in Physics (2006). Dr Yasseri has obtained his PhD in Complex Systems Physics (2010) from the Institute of Theoretical Physics at the University of Göttingen, Germany. RESEARCH Our personal and social daily activities produce an unprecedented amount of data. These data provide a unique opportunity to tackle some of the most important sociological questions in a framework similar to the one of empirical natural sciences. Dr Yasseri in interested in developing new techniques and methods for and applied to this sort of big transactional datasets. Moreover, Dr Yasseri is interested in developing mechanistic models —similar to ones in statistical mechanics— to go beyond observing patterns and correlations in platform-specific data, and generate general theories that not only explain causalities, but also provide quantitative predictions. #TuringShortTalks