Yoav Shoham

{{short description|American computer scientist}}

{{Infobox scientist

| name = Yoav Shoham

| image = Yoav Shoham 2016.jpg

| caption =

| birth_date = {{birth-date and age|22 January 1956}}

| birth_place = Israel

| field = Computer Science

| work_institution = Stanford University

| alma_mater = Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Yale University

| doctoral_advisor = Drew McDermott

| awards = Allen Newell Award (2012)
AAAI Feigenbaum Prize (2017)
IJCAI Research Excellence Award (2019)

}}

Yoav Shoham ({{langx|he|יואב שוהם}}; born 22 January 1956) is a computer scientist and a professor emeritus at Stanford University.{{cite web|url=https://www.yoavshoham.net|title=Yoav Shoham's Home Page}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=71053&fChrono=1 |title=The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Yoav Shoham |publisher=Genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu |access-date=2013-02-20}}

Shoham is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI),{{cite web|url=http://www.aaai.org/Awards/fellows-list.php |title=Elected AAAI Fellows |publisher=Aaai.org |access-date=2013-02-20}} of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and of the Game Theory Society (GTS).{{cite web|url=https://www.yoavshoham.net/about|title=Yoav Shoham's Bio}} Among his awards are the 2008 [https://sigai.acm.org/awards/autonomous_agents_award.html ACM/SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award], the 2012 ACM - AAAI Allen Newell Award,[http://awards.acm.org/award_winners/shoham_2838361.cfm ACM awards], retrieved on March 30, 2015. and the 2019 IJCAI [https://www.ijcai.org/awards Research Excellence Award].

Shoham co-teaches two popular game theory courses on Coursera.org,{{cite web|url=http://game-theory-class.org |title=Game Theory Online |publisher=Game-theory-class.org |access-date=2013-02-20}} along with Matthew O. Jackson and Kevin Leyton-Brown, viewed by over half a million people.

Shoham initiated the [https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/people-of-ai-index 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.{{Cite news |date=2020-11-22 |title=Amnon Shashua's AI21 Labs raises $35m to reinvent writing |language=en |work=Globes |url=https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-amnon-shashuas-ai21-labs-raises-35-million-to-reinvent-writing-1001350238 |access-date=2023-02-14}}