Peyman Faratin

Peyman Faratin (born September 16, 1965) is an Iranian/American computer scientist, and the founder of Robust Links, an Internet company building algorithms for creating and processing a knowledge graph.

Peyman Faratin
Born	(1965-09-16) September 16, 1965 (age 59) Tehran, Iran
Nationality	American
Citizenship	US and UK
Alma mater	University of London and MIT
Known for	Automated Negotiation
Awards	IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award
Scientific career
Fields	Computer Science
Institutions	MIT, Two Sigma, Mckinsey
Thesis	(2000)
Doctoral advisor	Carles Sierra Nick Jennings

Background

Faratin completed his PhD in computer science under the supervision of Prof. Nicholas R. Jennings and Prof. Carles Sierra. He made significant contributions in the area of artificial intelligence, particularly to automated negotiation in multi-agent systems. He was then a research scientist at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (CSAIL) laboratory, working with David D. Clark in the Advanced Network Architecture group.

Selected publications

• P. Faratin, D. Clark, P. Gilmore, S. Bauer, A. Berger and W. Lehr (2008). The Growing Complexity of Internet Interconnections: Communications and Strategies, no.72, 4th quarter 2008
• D. D.Clark, W. Lehr, S.J. Bauer, P. Faratin, R. Sami, and J. Wroclawski (2006): Overlay Networks and Future of the Internet. In Journal of Communications and Strategies, 3(63), pp 1–21, 2006
• P. Faratin, C. Sierra and N. Jennings (2002): Using Similarity Criteria to Make Negotiation Trade-Offs. In Journal of Artificial Intelligence. 142 (2) 205-237
• P. Faratin, C. Sierra and N. Jennings (1997): Negotiation Decision Functions for Autonomous Agents in Int. Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 24(3-4):159-182

External links

• RobustLinks
• MIT personal page^{[permanent dead link]}
• Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (CSAIL)