Career
AI21 Labs
Co-Founder
Position
Co-Founder
Platform
Resources
Pricing
Co-Founder and Co-CEO / AI21 Labs / Professor Emeritus / Stanford University
Yoav Shoham is a distinguished computer scientist, professor emeritus at Stanford University, and a leading figure in artificial intelligence, logic, and game theory. He is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of AI21 Labs, an Israeli AI startup known for its large language models. Shoham has a strong entrepreneurial background, having co-founded and served as chairman for several companies acquired by Google, including Timeful and Katango, and previously worked as a Principal Scientist at Google.
Co-Founder
Co-Founder
Professor Emeritus
Previously, Director of the AI Lab
Founding chair of the Steering Committee
Check it out at www.aiindex.org
Co-Founder and Chairman
WeCode.org is an innovative, nonprofit, hybrid academic-industrial employment-oriented coding bootcamp for underprivileged young adults.
Principal Scientist
Principal Scientist
Co-Founder and Chairman
Acquired by Google.
Co-Founder and Chairman
Acquired by Google.
Founder and Chairman
Acquired by Ariba.
PhD
PhD - Computer Science
Core technical and professional competencies inferred from academic and entrepreneurial career
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Game Theory
Logic Programming
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing (NLP)
System Design
Startup Founding
Venture Capital
Strategic Planning
Team Leadership
Business Development
Acquisitions & Exits
Academic Research
Curriculum Development
Mentorship
Public Speaking
AI Ethics
Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, Large Language Models
Computer Science, Academic Research, Technology Startups
Visionary, Pioneer, Academic, Entrepreneurial, Data-Driven
AI Innovation, Game Theory, Education, Social Impact
Male 65.7%, Female 34.3%
25-34 (64.5%), 35-54 (17.8%), 18-24 (12.4%)
US (13.1%), BR (11.7%), IR (8.6%), IN (7.0%)
Tehran (2.7%), Baghdad (2.2%), New York (1.5%)
489 followers
2.4K followers
Yoav Shoham is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of AI21 Labs, a Professor Emeritus at Stanford, and a serial entrepreneur with three company acquisitions.
He has founded 4 companies, 3 of which were acquired by major tech firms, including TradingDynamics, Katango, and Timeful.
Yes, he is a Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at Stanford University, where he has been affiliated since 1987.
He served as a Principal Scientist at Google for six years, from 2011 until 2017.
Yes, he was involved with the AI Index project for three years, from 2017 to 2020.