Prof. Taha Yasseri has joined the IFISC (UIB-CSIC) this week for a research stay that will extend until late November. During his visit, he will give a seminar on October 22 and teach a course titled “Hybrid collective intelligence of humans and machines” as part of the Sociomeetings on November 11, 18, and 25.
Taha Yasseri is a Full Professor and Chair of Technology and Society at Trinity College Dublin and Technological University Dublin, where he directs the TCD–TU Dublin Joint Centre for Sociology of Humans and Machines (SOHAM). He is also an adjunct Full Professor at the School of Mathematics and Statistics at University College Dublin.
Previously, he served as Professor and Deputy Head at the School of Sociology and as a Geary Fellow at the Geary Institute for Public Policy at University College Dublin. Before that, he was a Senior Research Fellow in Computational Social Science at the University of Oxford, a Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute, and a Research Fellow in Humanities and Social Sciences at Wolfson College.
His research spans computational social science, artificial intelligence, and complex systems, focusing on human-machine interactions, collective intelligence, online political behaviour, information dynamics, and social behaviour in digital environments.