Yoav Shoham (; born 22 January 1956) is a

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and a

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. His research spans artificial intelligence, logic and game theory. He has also founded and sold several AI companies. Shoham received his B.Sc. from

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, and his Ph.D. at

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in 1987. Shoham is a Fellow of the

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(AAAI), of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and of the Game Theory Society (GTS). Among his awards are the 200
ACM/SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award
the 2012 ACM - AAAI Allen Newell Award, and the 2019 IJCA
Research Excellence Award
Shoham co-teaches two popular game theory courses on Coursera.org, along with Matthew O. Jackson and Kevin Leyton-Brown, viewed by over half a million people. Shoham initiated th
AI Index
a project to track activity and progress in AI, which was launched publicly at the end of 2017. A serial entrepreneur, in 1999 Shoham founded TradingDynamics which was sold to Ariba in 2000. In 2011 he co-founded Katango which was sold to Google in 2013. In 2014 he co-founded Timeful which was sold to Google in 2015. Following that acquisition, Shoham joined Google as principal scientist where he worked until August 2017. He later that year co-founded AI21 Labs, an AI platform company.

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Shoham's home page at Stanford UniversityShoham's personal home page
1956 births Living people Stanford University faculty Scientists from the San Francisco Bay Area American computer scientists Yale University alumni Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence American game theorists {{compu-scientist-stub