Education
He received his Doctor of Philosophy at Yale University in 1987.
He received his Doctor of Philosophy at Yale University in 1987.
Shoham co-teaches a popular game theory course on Coursera.org, along with Matthew O. Jackson and Kevin Leyton-Brown and Advanced game theory on Stanford-online. Shoham"s recent work is concerned with game theoretic questions in multiagent systems Earlier, he worked on temporal reasoning, nonmonotonic logics and theories of commonsense.
He is a co-winner of the 2012 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) - Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Allen Newell Award for "fundamental contributions at the intersection of computer science, game theory, and economics, most particularly in multi-agent systems and social coordination (broadly construed), which have yielded major contributions to all three disciplines".
He is also a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence), and a charter member of the Game Theory Society (GTS).