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I am a senior research fellow at the Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia (IAM) Group at the five-star rated School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom. I received my Ph.D. in 2007 under the supervision of Professor Nicholas R. Jennings. My research interests include mainly: Multi-Agent Systems, Coalition Formation, Combinatorial Optimization, Algorithm Design, Distributed AI, and Knowledge Representation.
My brother, Dr. Iyad Rahwan,is also a researcher in the area of Multi-agent Systems. He is an Associate Professor and the Head of the Computing & Information Science program at Masdar Institute, and a Research Affiliate at MIT.
Contact details:
Level 4, EE Building 32, University Road, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Tel: +44 (0) 23 8059 8415 Fax: +44 (0) 23 8059 2865 Email: tr [at] ecs.soton.ac.uk
Academic Awards:
● 2011: AI's 10 to Watch (news item), view full article here
- Awarded every two years, by "IEEE Intelligent Systems", to the top 10 young Artificial-Intelligence (AI) researchers in the world. The winners are described as the "stars who promise to be the leaders of the field".
- "IEEE Intelligent Systems" is published by the "IEEE Computer Society". It is sponsored by the American Association of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI), and the British Computer Society (BCS).
● 2008: BCS Distinguished Dissertation Award (news item)
- Awarded each year to the best Ph.D. In the UK in computer science.
- Presented by the Council of Professors and Heads of Computing (CPHC), in conjunction with the British Computer Society (BCS).
- This award scheme ``aims to make more visible the significant contribution made by the UK to computer science", and the winning dissertation ``serves to provide a model for future students'' (www.bcs.org) .
● 2007: The Engineer Technology and Innovation Award (news item)
- This prestigious award scheme, organized by The Engineer magazine, is intended to recognize the significant contributions being made to the UK's technology economy by universities and industry working together.
- ARGUS II, one of the projects I was involved in, received the Award for Large Company and University Collaboration (www.theengineer.co.uk).
● 2003: ORS (Overseas Research Scholarship) for a Ph.D.
- Awarded by the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom. The school is ranked second in the UK for the quality of its research according to the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE).
- Under the supervision of Prof. Nicholas Jennings, head of the Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia (IAM) Group, and deputy Head of School for Research (2001-2008).
● 2003: Presidential Award for Academic Achievement
- Convened by the Syrian Ministry of Higher Education, and awarded to the student ranked 1st in each department at Syrian universities.
● 2002: Best Project Award
- The video-game project received a grade of 89% (the highest grade among all presented projects in 2002 at the Faculty of Informatics Engineering, University of Aleppo, Syria). Screen shots from the video game can be found here.
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