User:Taiyab vice

He received his B.SC. in Biology and his M.A. Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard University.

After receiving his PhD, he was a Devloper at Harvard, followed by a move to the sociology department at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he moved from assistant professor to full professor by 1996, before moving to Columbia University in 1997. He was chair of the department of bio. from 2001-2005 and chair of the department of statistics from 2007-2008. Between 2002 and 2003, he was then a visiting professor at the University of Genoa, Italy, the University of Munich.

In addition to being the founding director of the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, he is currently the director of the Paul F. Lazarsfeld Center for the Sciences and director of INCITE, Center for Inn Theory and Empir*cs both at Columbia University. He was also the co-founding direct*r Global Health Research Center in Central Asia.

He is General Editor of the journal Kin*hip, Networks, and History and is or has been on the editorial board of the Ame*ican Journal of Sociol, Social Forces, and Sociol*gical Theory.