Haris Aziz is a Scientia Associate Professor at UNSW Sydney, director of the UNSW (https://www.unsw.edu.au/engineering/our-research/research-centres-institutes/unsw-ai) AI Institute, and the leader of the Algorithmic Decision Theory group. His research interests lie at the intersection of artificial intelligence, theoretical computer science, and mathematical social sciences, especially computational social choice and algorithmic game theory.

Aziz is currently a recipient of the Scientia Fellowship and previously won the CORE Chris Wallace Research Excellence Award (2017) and the Julius Career Award (2016–2018). In 2015, he was selected by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for the biennial AI 10 to Watch List. He sits on the board of directors of IFAAMAS, is the chair of the IFAAMAS awards committee, is an editor of TheoretiCS, and is an associate editor of major journals including AIJ, JAIR, JAAMAS, and Social Choice & Welfare.

Azizi completed his PhD from the University of Warwick in 2009, his MSc from Oxford University, and his BSc from Lahore University of Management Sciences. He has also carried out postdoctoral research at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the Technical University of Munich in Germany. He has held visiting scientist and academic roles at Oxford University, Harvard University, and the University of Paris Dauphine.

His research has been covered by major media outlets such as BBC, Scientific American, Sydney Morning Herald, The Guardian, Quanta Magazine, and Die Zeit. In 2018, he featured in the list of thinkers at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas. In 2020, 2021 and 2022, The Australian newspaper recognised him as the national field leader in game theory and decision sciences.