Employment

Professor, Computer Science Department, Stanford University

Earlier academics

Technion (Haifa, Israel: BA), Yale University (New Haven, CT: PhD), Weizmann Institute (Rehovot, Israel: Post Doc).

Industry

I've founded a couple of companies and enjoy that part of my life, too.

Short bio

Yoav Shoham is Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, where he has been since receiving his PhD in Computer Science from Yale University in 1987 and spending an abbreviated post-doctoral position at the Weizmann Institute of Science. He has worked in various areas of AI, including temporal reasoning, nonmonotonic logics and theories of commonsense. Shoham's interest in recent years has been multiagent systems, and in particular the interaction between computer science and game theory. Shoham is a Fellow of the Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), and charter member of the Game Theory Society. He is an author of four books, an editor of one, and an author of numerous articles. He is also a founder of several successful e-commerce software companies.