Iyad Rahwan

Iyad Rahwan
إياد رهوان
Born1978
Alma materUniversity of Melbourne
Scientific career
FieldsComputational social science, Artificial intelligence, Ethics, Cognitive science, Game theory, Crowdsourcing
InstitutionsMax Planck Institute for Human Development
Doctoral advisorLiz Sonenberg
Other academic advisorsAlex Pentland
Websitehttps://rahwan.me/

Iyad Rahwan (Arabic: إياد رهوان), is a Syrian-Australian scientist. He is the director of the Center for Humans and Machines at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development. Between 2015 and 2020, he was an associate professor of Media Arts & Sciences at the MIT Media Lab. Rahwan's work lies at the intersection of the computer and social sciences, where he has investigated topics in computational social science, collective intelligence, large-scale cooperation, and the social aspects of artificial intelligence.