Araz Taeihagh is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Principal Investigator at the Centre for Trusted Internet and Community (CTIC) and member of NUS Cities and NUS Centre for Computational Social Science and Humanities of the National University of Singapore (NUS). Taeihagh was Chair (2022–2023) and Co-Chair (2020–2022) of the PhD Programme in Public Policy at LKYSPP, NUS. Taeihagh has a technical background and focuses on various aspects of policy design and governance of emerging disruptive technologies.
Taeihagh is a member of the editorial boards of Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Transport Reviews, Policy and Society, Regulation & Governance, Humanities and Social Science Communications, Policy Design and Practice, Journal of Economic Policy Reform, Frontiers of Political Science, and AIMS Energy, among others. Taeihagh is the co-chair of the Comparative Public Policy Research Committee (RC30) of IPSA and was an elected member of the College of IPPA (2019–2023). Taeihagh is a member of the scientific committee (Governance) of AI Singapore (2023–2025, 2025–2027). Taeihagh has conducted more than 222 verified peer reviews for 65 journals and has 775 Verified editor records.
Recent Awards and Recognitions:
In 2025, Taeihagh was recognised as a Highly Ranked Scholar (top 0.05% of scholars worldwide) for the prior 5 years in the area of Governance (3rd) and Autonomous Robots (4th) by ScholarGPS in recognition of exceptional productivity, noteworthy impact and quality of scholarly work worldwide. Across five-year ranking, he placed 3rd in Governance, 4th in Autonomous Robots, 10th in Public Policy, and 49th in Smart city. He was also named a Top Cited Scholar 2025 based on 10 years of citation data by Scilit.
From 2023–2025 Taeihagh was listed among the Top 2% of scientists worldwide for lifetime citation impact and from 2021–2025 for annual citation impact according to the Stanford/Elsevier study:
2021: 4 LKYSPP faculty recognised among Top 2% of Scientists Worldwide
2023: Six LKYSPP faculty among top 2% of the world’s scientists in 2023 report
2024: Eight LKYSPP faculty among top 2% of the world’s scientists in 2024 report
2025: Nine LKYSPP faculty among top 2% of the world’s scientists in 2025 report
In 2024, Taeihagh was recognised as Highly Ranked Scholar (top 0.05% of scholars worldwide) for the prior 5 years in the area of Governance by ScholarGPS. Taeihagh placed 11th in Governance, 12th in Public Policy, 14th in Autonomous Robots, and 69th in Smart city. In 2023, he was ranked among the top 0.5% of scholars globally.
In 2021–2022 his works published in Regulation and Governance and Policy and Internet journals were recognised as the top cited publications for the period in their respective journals. Taeihagh is the winner of the best paper of the year award from Transport Reviews in 2020 for governing autonomous vehicles. On the 50th anniversary of earth day, Elsevier selected his paper on the study of four decades of evolution of policy mix for sustainable energy transition in China published in Applied Energy as one of 50 foundations and future of energy research papers on Earth Day in April 2020.
Taeihagh received the Research Excellence Award in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2024, and the LKYSPP writing fellowship 2022 and NUS HSS faculty research fellowship 2023.
Background:
Taeihagh earned his D.Phil. researching "A novel approach for the development of policies for socio-technical systems" at the University of Oxford, UK.
Taeihagh attended the University of Oxford (D.Phil. Matriculated in 2007 – Supervisor Prof Banares-Alcantara) and passed his Viva in December 2011 under Prof. Venkat Venkatasubramanian (Columbia University - Samuel Ruben-Peter G. Viele Professor) and Prof. Ian Thompson (University of Oxford) and received his D.Phil. Certificate in March 2012.
From July 2012 to October 2014, he did his postdoctoral studies at the City Futures Research Centre (based in Faculty of Built Environment) at the University of New South Wales working with Profs Michael Neuman and Bill Randolph. From July 2015 to December 2017, he was on the faculty at the Singapore Management University. From January 2018, he works at the National University of Singapore.
Taeihagh has more than two decades of consulting and advisory experiences in energy, environmental, transportation and technology domains.
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