Gareth Tyson
Gareth Tyson
Room
409,
Wolfson Building,
Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QD
United Kingdom
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Interests
I am interested in research topics related to Internet systems (see my publications). I am accepting new DPhil students at Oxford to start from Autumn 2027. Please see the DPhil in Computer Science pages on deadlines and application procedures. There are several scholarships and sources of funding available, including Departmental Scholarships, University’s Graduate Funding, Colleges’ own Scholarships, Oxford-Max-Planck Doctoral Programme, EIT Scholarships, China Oxford Scholarship Fund, The Rhodes Scholarships for Hong Kong, Clarendon Fund, and many more options.
Biography
Gareth Tyson is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford. He joined the university in 2026, having previously been at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (GZ) and at Queen Mary University of London as a Professor of Computer Science.
His research interests centre on Internet systems, with a particular focus on social platforms such as YouTube, X, Bluesky, Facebook, Mastodon etc. He develops methodologies to measure these systems, and then builds solutions that can mitigate the real-world issues observed. These solutions focus on employing data-driven methodologies (such as machine learning) to improve the performance and safety of such platforms. An up-to-date list of publications is available on Google Scholar.
He has been awarded over £5 million in research funding and has received coverage from news outlets such as the BBC, Washington Post, CNBC, New Scientist, MIT Tech Review, The Times, Wired, Ars Technica and The Register, as well as being interviewed on both BBC TV and Radio. He has received several awards, including the ACM SIGMETRICS Reviewer Award 2026, the ACM IMC Best Reviewer Award 2025, the SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award 2023; the IETF/IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize 2023; the WOAH Shared Task on Hateful Memes Prize 2021; the Best Student Paper Award at the Web Conference 2020; the Best Paper Award at eCrime’19; the Honourable Mention Award at the Web Conference 2018; and the Brendan Murphy Memorial Young Researcher Prize in 2013. More information can be found on my personal webpage.