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.[1] Between 2015 and 2020, he was an associate professor of Media Arts & Sciences at the MIT Media Lab.[2] 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.[3]