Yoav Shoham
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Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at Stanford University (28-year Stanford CS faculty) and Co-founder & Co-CEO of AI21 Labs — the Israeli foundation-model company behind the Jurassic and Jamba model families. Born 1956. Research spans artificial intelligence, logic, and game theory, with a long-standing focus on multi-agent systems (he co-authored the canonical Multiagent Systems: Algorithmic, Game-Theoretic, and Logical Foundations textbook with Kevin Leyton-Brown).
Serial AI entrepreneur — founded TradingDynamics (acquired by Ariba), Katango and Timeful (both acquired by Google; Shoham then served as Principal Scientist at Google, 2015–2017) before AI21 Labs. Fellow of AAAI, ACM, and the Game Theory Society. Awards include the 2008 ACM/SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award, the 2012 ACM–AAAI Allen Newell Award, and the 2019 IJCAI Research Excellence Award — three of the field’s most senior honours.
Member of the AI Index Steering Committee at Stanford HAI; recurring co-author of the annual report. The combination of academic-canonical multi-agent-systems work plus an active foundation-model company makes Shoham one of the wiki’s most direct lineage links between the ai-agents / foundation-models / agent-harness cluster and the AI Index’s measurement vantage.
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- 2026-04-28-ai-index-report-2025 — co-author, 8th edition.
- 2026-04-30-ai-index-report-2026 — co-author, 9th edition.