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Tehran Institute for Advanced Studies (TeIAS), founded in 2016, is a higher education institute in Tehran, Iran, aimed to conduct advanced research and education in the trending fields of science and technology. TeIAS comprises two departments, Economics and Finance and Computer Science, offering various degrees at Master’s level. TeIAS, holds many scientific events regularly, including summer and winter schools, short courses and talks in collaboration with institutions and universities around the world.

Currently TeIAS is financially supported by Bank Pasargad, a private bank in Iran, in line with the bank’s corporate social responsibility (CSR). However, TeIAS is governed independently under the supervision of Board of Trustees.

History
The idea of establishing TeIAS originated from a meeting with the participation of Khatam University senior executives and about 30 academics working in or studying in international universities and institutions in January 2015.

Subsequently, a group of 9 renowned international accepted to follow Majid Ghasemi's (the principal of Khatam University) vision to establish a world-class private university in Iran. Their first mission was to explore the current status and potential of the higher education and academic atmosphere in Iran to propose the roadmap of achieving this objective. Three summer schools were held in September 2016. A number of professors from international universities and institutions such as Stanford University, MIT, University of Oxford, Bank of America, etc. were invited as lecturers and graduate students from Iranian universities attended the events as the audience.

Based on the result of feasibility studies and the experiences during July and August 2017, the first group of faculty members in Economics and Finance, freshly graduated from universities around the world, accepted to join TeIAS. The first master’s program in Theoretical Economics was commenced on the following.

After holding a few schools and establishing relationships with a number of researchers around the world, the second milestone was celebrated with the second department, Computer Science, which officially established on September 2020 and has offered master’s program in Data Science since then. The foundations of the data science program were initially built based on the consultation with several faculty members in the computer science and data science community, in the form of a diverse international advisory board.

Economics and Finance
Established in 2016, the department of Economics and Finance offers the following programs at master’s level:


 * Economics
 * Energy Economics
 * Development Economics
 * Banking
 * Financial Engineering and Risk Management

The department of Economics and Finance regularly holds various scientific events, e.g., summer and winter schools on Big Data Economics, International Trade, and Economics of Cryptocurrencies, as well as several short courses and talks, in collaboration with academics from the universities and institutions around the world.

Computer Science
Developed by the faculty members at the department of Computer Science, TeIAS designed the master’s program in Data Science in Iran, presented to and approved by the Iranian Ministry of Science, Research and Technology. The program has been offered since the academic year of 2020.

The research in the department of Computer Science focuses on three broad categories: Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Trustworthy Computer Systems, and Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning. The department of Computer Science holds various scientific events, e.g., summer and winter schools on Data Science, Machine Learning, and Trustworthy Systems, as well as regular scientific talks, offered by international researchers.