Iyad founded and directs the Centre for Humans and Machines, which conducts interdisciplinary sciences, to understand, anticipate, and shape major disruptions from digital media and AI to the way we think, learn, work, play, cooperate and govern. Iyad’s research interests lie in human psychology and intelligent machines, new techniques for measuring and enabling human cooperation and human-machine cooperation. Before joining the Max Plank Institute for Human Development, Iyad worked as an AT&T Career Development Professor at MIT, where he focused on collective intelligence, large-scale cooperation, and social aspects of AI.