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Yoav Shoham

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.[1] His research spans artificial intelligence, logic and game theory. He has also founded and sold several AI companies.

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Shoham received his B.Sc. from Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, and his Ph.D. at Yale University in 1987.[2]

Shoham is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI),[3] of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and of the Game Theory Society (GTS).[4] Among his awards are the 2008 ACM/SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award, the 2012 ACM - AAAI Allen Newell Award,[5] and the 2019 IJCAI Research Excellence Award.

Shoham co-teaches two popular game theory courses on Coursera.org,[6] along with Matthew O. Jackson and Kevin Leyton-Brown, viewed by over half a million people.

Shoham initiated the 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.[7]

Selected publications

  • Shoham, Yoav; Leyton-Brown, Kevin (2009). Multiagent Systems: Algorithmic, Game-Theoretic, and Logical Foundations. Cambridge University Press. p. 496. ISBN 978-0-521-89943-7.
  • Leyton-Brown, Kevin; Shoham, Yoav (2008). Essentials of Game Theory: A Concise, Multidisciplinary Introduction. San Rafael, CA: Morgan & Claypool Publishers. ISBN 978-1-59829-593-1.
  • Shoham, Yoav (1994). Artificial Intelligence Techniques in Prolog. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers.
  • Shoham, Yoav (1988). Reasoning about Change: Time and Causation from the Standpoint of Artificial Intelligence. MIT Press.

References

  1. [1]
    "Yoav Shoham's Home Page".
  2. [2]
    "The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Yoav Shoham". Genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu. Retrieved 2013-02-20.
  3. [3]
    "Elected AAAI Fellows". Aaai.org. Retrieved 2013-02-20.
  4. [4]
    "Yoav Shoham's Bio".
  5. [5]
    ACM awards, retrieved on March 30, 2015.
  6. [6]
    "Game Theory Online". Game-theory-class.org. Retrieved 2013-02-20.
  7. [7]
    "Amnon Shashua's AI21 Labs raises $35m to reinvent writing". Globes. 2020-11-22. Retrieved 2023-02-14.


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