Dr. Mohammad Reza Yeganegi is currently a research scholar in the Cooperation and Transformative Governance Research Group of the Advancing Systems Analysis Program at the IIASA. He has a PhD in Statistics and a master’s degree in Economic and Social Statistics. Prior to joining the IIASA, he was an assistant professor in Financial Statistics. His research includes both the theoretical and practical sides of time series analysis, forecasting, risk analysis, predictive causality analysis, machine learning, text mining, and social network analysis. He is experienced in developing statistical tools and has a hand in online data analysis.