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IYAD RAHWAN MIT Media Lab, 75 Amherst St., Cambridge MA 02139, USA, Irahwan[-At-]Mit.Edu This Version: April 8, 2017 IYAD RAHWAN MIT Media Lab, 75 Amherst St., Cambridge MA 02139, USA, irahwan[-at-]mit.edu This version: April 8, 2017 AT A GLANCE Web Personal page: www.mit.edu/~irahwan Scholar profile: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=yKCX2IUAAAAJ Personal Born: 1978, Citizenship: Australia, Syria Degree Ph.D. University of Melbourne, Australia, 2005 Position (Sept 2015 {) Associate Professor, The Media Lab, MIT, USA Impact h-index = 34, Citations = 4,020+ (Google Scholar) as of 3/2017 Selected J.-F. Bonnefon, A. Shariff, I. Rahwan (2016). The Social Dilemma of Autonomous Papers Vehicles. Science. 352(6293):1573-1576. I. Rahwan, et al (2014). Analytical reasoning task reveals limits of social learning in networks. J. Royal Society Interface. 11(93). A. Rutherford, M. Cebrian , S. Dsouza, E. Moro, A. Pentland, I. Rahwan (2013). Limits of Social Mobilization. PNAS, 110(16) pp 6281-6286 A. Mani, I. Rahwan, A. Pentland (2013). Inducing Peer Pressure to Promote Cooper- ation. Scientific Reports. 3(1735) I. Rahwan, et al (2013). Global Manhunt Pushes the Limits of Social Mobilization. IEEE Computer, 46(4) 68-75. G. Pickard, W. Pan, I. Rahwan, M. Cebrian, R. Crane, A. Madan, A. Pentland (2011). Time-Critical Social Mobilization. Science. 334(6055) 509-512. I. Rahwan, et al (2010). Behavioural Experiments for Assessing the Abstract Argu- mentation Semantics of Reinstatement. Cognitive Science. 34(8) 1483-1502 I. Rahwan et al (2007). Laying the Foundations for a World Wide Argument Web. Artificial Intelligence, 171(10-15) 897-921 Selected New York Times (2016) Should Your Driverless Car Hit a Pedestrian to Save Your Media Life? Wall Street Journal (2016) With Driverless Cars, a Safety Dilemma Arises Washington Post (2015) What if your self-driving car decides one death is better than two { and that one is you? MIT Technology Review (Best of 2015): Why Self-Driving Cars Must Be Pro- grammed to Kill Nature News/Scientific American (2013) Crowdsourcing in manhunts can work NBC News (2013) Facebook passes research test for quick responses, collaboration The Economist (2012) Six degrees of mobilization MSNBC (2011) How MIT team won balloon search-and-rescue challenge Iyad Rahwan Page 2 PRINCIPAL FIELDS OF INTEREST Computational Social Science; Social Networks; Data Science; Crowdsourcing; Cognitive Science; Behavioral Economics; Game Theory; Argumentation; Social Learning; Artificial Intelligence. EDUCATION University of Melbourne, Australia, PhD, Information Systems (Artificial Intelligence) 2005 Advisor: Prof. Liz Sonenberg Thesis title: Interest-based Negotiation in Multi-Agent Systems Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia, Masters in Information Technology, 2000 UAE University, UAE, B.Sc. in Computer Science (honours), GPA 3.9/4, 1999 ACADEMIC POSITIONS Associate Professor of Media Arts & Science, The Media Lab 09/2015{ Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA, USA Other MIT appointments: { AT&T Career Development Professor 07/2015{06{2018 { Affiliate Faculty, Institute for Data, Systems & Society (IDSS) 07/2016{06/2018 Associate Professor, Computing & Information Science 1/2012{08/2015 Masdar Institute of Science & Technology, Abu Dhabi, UAE Assistant Professor, Computing & Information Science 2/2010{12/2011 Masdar Institute of Science & Technology, Abu Dhabi, UAE Honorary Fellow, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 02/2005{present Visiting Scholar, Media Lab (with Alex `Sandy' Pentland) 04/2010{10/2010 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge MA 06/2011{08/2011 Research Affiliate, Technology & Development Program 10/2010{12/2011 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Lecturer / Senior Lecturer, Informatics, British University in Dubai 11/2004{2/2010 HONORS & AWARDS Finalist, Telecom Italia Big Data Challenge, top 10 out of 652 teams 03/2014 Winner, \Tag Challenge", sponsored by US Department of State 04/2012 Best Technical Paper Award 9th International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC), Minneapolis, MN 08/2007 European Master of Informatics Scholar, University of Edinburgh 08/2006{2008 European Commissions Erasmus Mundus Programme UAE Crown Prince Sheikh Khalifa Al-Nahyan academic excellence award 04/2000 SELECTED MEDIA COVERAGE Science Magazine. Computers learn to cooperate better than humans 2017 Washington Post. The big moral dilemma facing self-driving cars 2017 FiveThirtyEight. This Machine Was Built To Give You Nightmares 2016 Boston Globe. MIT's `Nightmare Machine' transforms photos into creepy images 2016 The Atlantic. The Nightmare Machine 2016 Financial Times. Driverless cars and MIT's test of the crowdsourcing morality 2016 New York Times. Should Your Driverless Car Hit a Pedestrian to Save Your Life? 2016 Wall Street Journal. With Driverless Cars, a Safety Dilemma Arises 2016 Iyad Rahwan Page 3 Time Magazine. New Study Reveals We're Utterly Conflicted About Driverless Cars 2016 The Guardian. Will your driverless car be willing to kill you to save the lives of others? 2016 Le Monde. Le dilemme macabre des voitures autonomes 2016 El Pais. >Comprar´ıasun coche que elegir´amatarte para salvar otras vidas? 2016 Der Spiegel. Was soll Ihr Auto jetzt tun? 2016 La Repubblica. Guida autonoma, chi vive e chi muore? Il dilemma del MIT diventa un quiz 2016 Washington Post. What if your self-driving car decides one death is better than two - and that one is you? 2015 BBC World Service. Should self-drive cars kill their passengers to save pedestrians? 2015 MIT Tech. Review. Best of 2015: Why Self-Driving Cars Must Be Programmed to Kill 2015 Daily Mail. Is Twitter making you stupid? 2014 Nature News/Scientific American. Crowdsourcing in manhunts can work 2013 New Scientist. Nowhere to hide: The next manhunt will be crowdsourced 2013 ABC. Social media has limited mobilisation power 2013 NBC News. Facebook passes research test for quick responses, collaboration 2013 MIT Tech. Review. `12 Hours of separation' connect individuals on social networks 2013 The Economist. Six degrees of mobilization 2012 Popular Science. How to track down international jewel thieves via Facebook 2012 MSNBC. How MIT team won balloon search-and-rescue challenge 2011 Popular Mechanics. What DARPA's scavenger hunt taught us about mobilizing people fast 2011 PUBLICATIONS In Submission / Preprints 1. I. Rahwan. Society-in-the-loop: Programming the algorithmic social contract. 2. M. R. Frank, L. Sun, M. Cebrian, H. Youn, I. Rahwan. Small Cities Face Greater Impact from Automation. 3. J.-F. Bonnefon, A. Shariff, I. Rahwan. Psychological obstacles to the adoption of self-driving cars. 4. A. Alabdulkareem, M. R. Frank, L. Sun, B. AlShebli, C. Hidalgo, I. Rahwan. Skill Polarization and Economic Inequality. 5. E. Awad, M. Kleiman-Weiner, S. Dsouza, J.-F. Bonnefon, A. Shariff, J. B. Tenenbaum, I. Rahwan. Moral responsibility across levels of vehicle automation. 6. M. R. Frank, N. Obradovich, L. Sun, S. Dsouza, P.J. Chang, W. L. Woon, B. L. LeVeck, I. Rahwan. Cooperative reciprocity is widespread in international relations. 7. A. Rutherford, M. Cebrian, I. Rahwan., Y. Lupu, B. LeVeck, M. Garcia-Herranz. Inferring Mechanisms for Global Constitutional Progress. 8. J. W. Crandall, M. Oudah, F. Ishowo-Oloko, S. Abdallah, J.-F. Bonnefon, M. Cebrian, A. Shariff, M. A. Goodrich, I. Rahwan. Cooperating with Machines. arXiv:1703.06207 Editorials in Major Newspapers & Magazines 1. A. Shariff, I. Rahwan, J.-F. Bonnefon (2016). Whose Life Should Your Car Save?. New York Times (Gray Matter) 2. M. Cebrian, I. Rahwan, A. Pentland (2017). Beyond Viral: Generating Sustainable Value From Social Media. Sloan Management Review Iyad Rahwan Page 4 Journal Articles 1. E. Awad, J.-F. Bonnefon, M. Caminada, T. Malone, I. Rahwan (2017). Experimental As- sessment of Aggregation Principles in Argumentation-enabled Collective Intelligence. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology. (in press) 2. E. Awad, M. Caminada, G. Pigozzi, M. Podlaszewski, I. Rahwan. Pareto Optimality and Strategy Proofness in Group Argument Evaluation. Journal of Logic and Computation. (in press) 3. E. Awad, R. Booth, F. Tohm´e,I. Rahwan (2017). Judgment Aggregation in Multi-Agent Argumentation. Journal of Logic and Compuation. 27(1): 227-259. 4. A. Hiassat, A. Diabat, I. Rahwan (2017). A genetic algorithm approach for location-inventory- routing problem with perishable products. Journal of Manufacturing Systems. 42:93{103. 5. I. Rahwan (2017). Towards Scalable Governance: Sensemaking and Cooperation in the Age of Social Media. Philosophy & Technology. (in press) 6. J.-F. Bonnefon, A. Shariff, I. Rahwan (2016). The Social Dilemma of Autonomous Vehicles. Science. 352(6293):1573-1576. { Press: New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, CNN, Scientific Ameri- can, Time, The Guardian, Wired, LA Times, IEEE Spectrum, Forbes, New York Maga- zine, BBC Radio, The Independent, Popular Science, etc.. { Media impact (measured by Altmetrics as of Jan 2017): { In top-100 most discussed scientific articles in 2016 (ranked 33rd out of 2.7 million); { 10th most covered Science article to-date (out of 37,064); { 123rd most covered research output ever by the media to-date (out of 6.9 million). 7. H. Chen, I. Rahwan, M. Cebrian (2016). Bandit Strategies in Social Search: the case of the DARPA Red Balloon Challenge. EPJ Data Science. 5:20 8. M. Cebrian, I. Rahwan, A. Pentland (2016). Beyond Viral. Communications of the ACM. 59(4):36-39. 9. A. Alshamsi, F. Pianesi, B. Lepri, A. Pentland, I. Rahwan (2016). Network Diversity and Affect Dynamics: The Role of Personality Traits. PLOS ONE. 11(4): e0152358. 10. A. Alshamsi, F. Pianesi, B. Lepri, A. Pentland, I. Rahwan (2015). Beyond contagion: Reality mining reveals complex patterns of social influence. PLOS ONE. 10(8): e0135740. 11. A. Alshamsi, E. Awad, M. Almehrezi, V. Babushkin, P.-J. Chang, Z. Shoroye, A.-P. Toth, I. Rahwan (2015). Misery Loves Company: Happiness and Communication in the City. EPJ Data Science. 4:7. 12. N. Stefanovitch, A. Alshamsi, M. Cebrian, I. Rahwan (2014). Error and attack tolerance of collective problem solving: The DARPA Shredder Challenge. EPJ Data Science. 3(13):1{27. 13. I. Rahwan, D. Krasnoshtan, A. Shariff, and J. F. Bonnefon (2014). Analytical reasoning task reveals limits of social learning in networks.
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