Yoav Shoham

Yoav Shoham is a distinguished Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at Stanford University, where he has been a faculty member since earning his PhD from Yale University in 1987. His research spans critical areas such as logic-based knowledge representation, game theory, and electronic commerce, contributing significantly to the academic discourse with numerous articles and five influential books, including Essentials of Game Theory, co-authored with Kevin Leyton-Brown. Beyond academia, Shoham is a successful entrepreneur who has founded several AI companies, including TradingDynamics, Katango, and Timeful, all of which were acquired by major firms like Ariba and Google. His accolades include being a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and the Game Theory Society. He has also received prestigious awards such as the IJCAI Research Excellence Award and the ACM/SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award. In addition to his research and entrepreneurial endeavors, Shoham is known for his popular online courses in game theory, which have attracted hundreds of thousands of learners worldwide. Through his multifaceted contributions to AI and economics, he continues to influence both academic and practical applications in these fields.