Dr. Taha Yasseri
Dr. Taha Yasseri is a Research Fellow in Computational Social Science at the OII, a Faculty Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute for Data Science, and Research Fellow in Humanities and Social Sciences at Wolfson College, 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, Dr Yasseri 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, 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. Dr Yasseri’s main research interest is in human dynamics, social networks, and collective behavior.
Selected Publications
Vidgen, B. and Yasseri, T. (2016) ‘P-values: Misunderstood and misused’, Frontiers in Physics, 4(6). doi: 10.3389/fphy.2016.00006.
Margetts, H., John, P., Hale, S., and Yasseri, T. (2015) Political turbulence: How social media shape collective action. Princeton University Press.
Tsvetkova, M., Yasseri, T., Meyer, E.T., Pickering, J.B., Engen, V., Walland, P., Lüders, M., Følstad, A. and Bravos, G. (2015) ‘Understanding human-machine networks: A cross-disciplinary survey’.
Yasseri, T. and Bright, J. (2015) Predicting elections from online information flows: towards theoretically informed models. Submitted.
Samoilenko, A. and Yasseri, T. (2014) ‘The distorted mirror of Wikipedia: A quantitative analysis of Wikipedia coverage of academics’, EPJ Data Science, 3(1). doi: 10.1140/epjds20.
Gillani, N., Yasseri, T., Eynon, R. and Hjorth, I. (2014) ‘Structural limitations of learning in a crowd: Communication vulnerability and information diffusion in MOOCs’, Scientific Reports, 4. doi: 10.1038/srep06447.
Hale, S.A., Margetts, H. and Yasseri, T. (2013) ‘Petition growth and success rates on the UK no. 10 downing street website’, 5th Annual ACM Web Science Conference on – WebSci ’13, , pp. 132–138. doi: 10.1145/2464464.2464518.
Yasseri, T., Sumi, R., Rung, A., Kornai, A. and Kertész, J. (2012) ‘Dynamics of conflicts in Wikipedia’, PLoS ONE, 7(6), p. e38869. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0038869.
