Yoav Shoham, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Age, Net Worth, Biography

Yoav Shoham (Hebrew: ???? ?????; born 22 January 1956) is a computer scientist and a Professor Emeritus at Stanford University.
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.Shoham is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and of the Game Theory Society (GTS).
Among his awards are the 2008 ACM/SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award the 2012 ACM - AAAI Allen Newell Award.Shoham co-teaches two popular game theory courses on Coursera.org, 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 for a reported USD458 million.
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 co-founded AI21, an AI platform company.

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