Associate Professor & Head, Computing & Information Science, Masdar Institute

About

Dr. Iyad Rahwan is an Associate Professor and the Head of the Computing & Information Science program at Masdar Institute. He is also a Research Affiliate at MIT, and an Honorary Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. He holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne.

Dr. Rahwan directs the Social Computing & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SCAI Lab). His research deals with collective cognition in technical systems (e.g. coordination among software agents or robots) and socio-technical systems (e.g. people interacting via social Web media). Current applications include helping people become more energy efficient, enabling automated trading of energy in smart electricity grids, making transportation systems smarter, and enabling large numbers of people to cooperate effectively.

Dr. Rahwan's research appeared in major journals, including Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Cognitive Science, and in major conferences including AAMAS, AAAI, IJCAI, and CogSci. He 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 (ICEC).

Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence; Cognitive Science; Social Computing; Mobile Computing; Crowdsourcing; Game Theory; Behavioral Economics; Formal Logic; Argumentation;

News

  • (1-Apr-2012) Our team CrowdScanner has won the Tag Challenge! Read about it on Nextgov, New Scientist, Popular Science.
  • (28-Mar-2012) Join our team to tackle the Tag Challenge. Read about it on CNET.
  • (28-Oct-2011) Balloon paper published. Some press about it: MSNBC, Popular Mechanics, MIT News, Science News.
  • (9-November-2011) Still accepting applications for a **post-doctoral research fellowship** as part of a joint project with Sandy Pentland (MIT) and Manuel Cebrian (MIT & UCSD), building on MIT's success in the DARPA Network Challenge. 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. The start date can be flexible, given the right candidate.
  • **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.

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