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Yoav Shoham

American computer scientist

Yoav Shoham (Hebrew: יואב שוהם; born 22 January 1956) is a computer scientist and a professor emeritus at Stanford University. His research spans artificial intelligence, logic and game theory.²

From Wikipedia’s article on Yoav Shoham (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Born Jan 22, 1956.¹

About

He has also founded and sold several AI companies.

Shoham received his B.Sc. from Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, and his Ph.D. at Yale University in 1987.

Shoham is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and of the Game Theory Society (GTS). Among his awards are the 2008 ACM/SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award, the 2012 ACM - AAAI Allen Newell Award, and the 2019 IJCAI 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.

From Wikipedia’s article on Yoav Shoham, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.²

Companies

AI21 LabsFounder¹⁸

Early life and education

Date not recordedYale University³
Date not recordedTechnion – Israel Institute of Technology³

Career

Occupation: university teacher, computer scientist, academic.^{5 7}

Date not recordedWorked at Stanford University^{4 5}
Date not recordedFounded AI21 Labs⁶

Personal life

BornJan 22, 1956, Israel⁸
CitizenshipUnited States, Israel⁹

Awards

2025Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science^{10 14}
2012ACM Fellow^{10 13}
2012ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award^{10 12}
1998AAAI Fellow^{10 11}

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Wikimedia CommonsYoav Shoham photo by Arielinson, CC BY-SA 4.0