Dr. Iyad Rahwan is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Informatics at the British University in Dubai, the first post-graduate, research-based university in the UAE. He is also an Honorary Fellow at the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, one of the most research active department of its kind in the UK. Iyad holds a PhD (under the supervision of Prof. Liz Sonenberg) from the University of Melbourne, which has been ranked 1st in Australia and 19th in the world by the Times Higher Education Supplement in 2005. Iyad co-founded, and co-leads, the Dubai Agents & Multi-Agent Systems (DAMAS) research group together with Sherief Abdallah.

Iyad's interdisciplinary research crosses many areas, ranging from computer science and artificial intelligence, to game theory and cognitive science. His areas of expertise and research include: multi-agent systems (MAS), knowledge representation and reasoning, knowledge engineering, computational modeling of argumentation, Semantic Web technologies, game theory, automated negotiation, negotiation- and argumentation-support systems.  Iyad worked on research projects supported by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), the Australian Research Council (ARC), Hewlett Packard and Tejari.

Iyad is a founding Co-Editor of the journal of Argument & Computation, Associate Editor of the Knowledge Engineering Review, and has been an invited editor/co-editor of special issues of the refereed journals Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems and IEEE Intelligent Systems. He is a founding member of the International Workshop series on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems (ArgMAS). In 2007, he won the "Best Technical Paper Award" at the International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC). Iyad published over 50 fully-refereed papers in leading venues, including the Artificial Intelligence Journal, Journal of Web Semantics, the Knowledge Engineering Review, Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS, AAAI, IJCAI, and CogSci.

RECENT ACCOUNCEMENTS

• I just learned that my Erdös number is 3 (Erdös -> Wormald -> Stirling -> me)
• My brother, Talal Rahwan, is the winner of the British Computer Society's Distinguished Dissertation Competition for the year 2008. This award is presented to the most distinguished Ph.D. dissertation submitted in the British Isles in computer science in the year 2007.
• If you are interested in enrolling in a PhD at the University of Edinburgh while studying in Dubai, please contact me by phone or email.
• Check the new Dubai Agents & Multi-Agent Systems (DAMAS) Research Group web site.
• Check the International Workshop on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems (ArgMAS) series web site.
• The IEEE Intelligent Systems special issue on Argumentation Technology is now out.