Biography:Yoav Shoham
Yoav Shoham | |
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| Born | 22 January 1956 (age 68) Israel |
| Alma mater | Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Yale University |
| Awards | Allen Newell Award (2012) AAAI Feigenbaum Prize (2017) IJCAI Research Excellence Award (2019) |
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| Fields | Computer Science |
| Institutions | Stanford University |
| Doctoral advisor | Drew McDermott |
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.
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. http://www.masfoundations.org.
- 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. http://www.gtessentials.org.
- 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
- ↑ "Yoav Shoham's Home Page". https://www.yoavshoham.net.
- ↑ "The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Yoav Shoham". Genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu. http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=71053&fChrono=1.
- ↑ "Elected AAAI Fellows". Aaai.org. http://www.aaai.org/Awards/fellows-list.php.
- ↑ "Yoav Shoham's Bio". https://www.yoavshoham.net/about.
- ↑ ACM awards, retrieved on March 30, 2015.
- ↑ "Game Theory Online". Game-theory-class.org. http://game-theory-class.org.
- ↑ "Amnon Shashua's AI21 Labs raises $35m to reinvent writing" (in en). Globes. 2020-11-22. https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-amnon-shashuas-ai21-labs-raises-35-million-to-reinvent-writing-1001350238.
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