Returning to Stanford was a homecoming for me, since in 1993 I completed my PhD at Stanford under the supervision of Joe Halpern. In between, I was a postdoctoral researcher with Stuart Russell's research group at the Computer Science Division at UC Berkeley.

I did my masters and undergraduate degrees at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. My bachelors was in Mathematics and Computer Science, and my masters degree in Computer Science.

Here is a slightly more formal bio:

Professional History

• September 2001 -- present:
  Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University
• September 1995 -- September 2001:
  Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University
• October 1993 -- August 1995:
  Postdoctoral Researcher, Computer Science Division, University of California, Berkeley
  with Professor Stuart J. Russell
• Ph.D Computer Science, Stanford University 1989-1993
  Dissertation: From Knowledge to Belief
  Advisor: Professor Joseph Y. Halpern
  
• M.Sc. Computer Science, summa cum laude
  Hebrew University of Jerusalem 1985-1986
  Dissertation: Token Survival -- Resilient Token Algorithms
  Advisor: Professor Danny Dolev
  
• B.Sc. Mathematics & Computer Science, cum laude
  Hebrew University of Jerusalem 1982-1985
  

Awards and Honors

• MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, 2004.
• Appointed Arthur G. Villard Fellow for Undergraduate Teaching, Stanford University, 2004.
• Elected Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2004.
• IJCAI 2001 Computers and Thought Award. If you want to see a version of my talk (without the animations) click here. (I'm sorry to say that some of the slides only show up well on advanced versions of Internet Explorer.)
• Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), 1999. (I got to visit the White House when I got this award :-)
• Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, 1999.
• Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship, 1996
• Arthur L. Samuel Award for best thesis in the Computer Science Department, Stanford University, 1994
• University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1993--1995
• Rothschild Graduate Fellowship, 1989-1990