Associate Professor & Head, Computing & Information Science, Masdar Institute
About
Dr. Iyad Rahwan is Associate Professor and Head of Computing & Information Science at Masdar Institute, a research institute established in cooperation with MIT. He is an Honorary Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, and was previously a visiting scholar at the MIT Media Lab. He holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne.
Dr. Rahwan leads the Social Computing & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, where he studies mechanisms and technologies that promote collective intelligence. Applications range from promoting energy efficiency, to enabling large-scale teamwork in crisis situations. Dr. Rahwan's research appeared in major academic journals, including Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), IEEE Computer, Artificial Intelligence, and Cognitive Science, and in popular media, including The Economist, Nature News, Scientific American, NBC News, MSNBC, New Scientist, Popular Science, and MIT Technology Review.
Dr. Rahwan is a founding editor of the journal of Argument & Computation, associate editor of the Knowledge Engineering Review and the Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, and was guest editor for IEEE Intelligent Systems. He is the winner of the 2012 US State Department's Tag Challenge, and the 2007 "Best Technical Paper Award" at the International Conference on Electronic Commerce.
Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence; Cognitive Science; Social Computing; Mobile Computing; Crowdsourcing; Game Theory; Behavioral Economics; Formal Logic; Argumentation;
News
- (1-May-2013) New coverage of our work in Foreign Policy by Joshua Keating, titled ""Can 'Verily' build a smarter social media for disasters?".
- (26-Apr-2013) Coverage of our recent paper: Crowdsourcing in manhunts can work, by Philip Ball. The story also got published by Scientific American.
- (24-Apr-2013) Our work on crowdsourcing and information verification was featured in MIT Technology Review:
- Preventing Misinformation from Spreading through Social Media
- "12 Hours of Separation" Connect Individuals on Social Networks
- (23-Apr-2013) Our work on crowdsourcing and information verification was featured in New Scientist in the article "Nowhere to hide: The next manhunt will be crowdsourced".
- (5-Apr-2013) I was a panelist on the Crowdsourcing Research: How to recruit citizen scientists for discovery webinar, organized by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). [Video here]
- (2-Apr-2013) Our PNAS paper was featured by NBC News in an article titled "Facebook passes research test for quick responses, collaboration".
- (1-Apr-2013) Check out our new PNAS paper on the DARPA Red Balloon Challenge here.
- (1-Sep-2012) My work on the Balloon Challenge and Tag Challenge was featured in The Economist.
- (16-Jul-2012) Accepting applications for a **post-doctoral research fellowship** as part of a project funded by Siemens. More details here. Applications continue to be accepted until the position is filled by a suitable candidate. The position is expected to start in 2012 or 2013.
- (1-Apr-2012) Our team CrowdScanner has won the Tag Challenge! Read about it on Nextgov, New Scientist, Popular Science, The National.
- (28-Oct-2011) Balloon paper published. Some press about it: MSNBC,
Popular Mechanics,
MIT News,
Science News.
- **PhD Scholarships** for study in my research group jointly with Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with the chance to spend up to 1 year at MIT (to apply, go to the Masdar Institute Web site).
- March 2011: My younger brother, Talal Rahwan, won the 2010 "AI's 10 to Watch" award, given by IEEE Intelligent Systems to the top-ten young AI scientists in the world.
Other Announcements
- Submit to "Argument & Computation" journal here.
- Call for "Tutorial Articles" for the Knowledge Engineering Review here.
- Web site for the International Workshop on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems (ArgMAS) series.
- My course syllabi (subject to changes):
