School of Humanities and Sciences
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Yoav Shoham
Professor of Computer Science, Emeritus
BioYoav Shoham is professor emeritus of computer science at Stanford University. A leading AI expert, Prof. Shoham is Fellow of AAAI, ACM and the Game Theory Society. Among his awards are the IJCAI Research Excellence Award, the AAAI/ACM Allen Newell Award, and the ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award. His online Game Theory course has been watched by close to a million people. Prof. Shoham has founded several AI companies, including TradingDynamics (acquired by Ariba), Katango and Timeful (both acquired by Google), and AI21 Labs. Prof. Shoham also chairs the AI Index initiative (www.AIindex.org), which tracks global AI activity and progress, and WeCode (www.wecode.org.il), a nonprofit initiative to train high-quality programmers from disadvantaged populations.
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Talya Shragai
Staff, Biology
Special Initiatives Manager, Disease Ecology In A Changing World, ContingentBioTalya is the Research and Program Manager for the Disease Ecology in a Changing World program where she works on projects that improve both human health and the health of the environment.
She earned her PhD in Medical Entomology at Cornell University, studying how mosquitos adapt and behave in novel environments in Colombia, Puerto Rico, and New York. Following her PhD, Talya worked at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the Global Emergency Public Health and Global Immunization programs. Her work at the CDC combined capacity building, operational research, and collaborating with Ministries of Health across Africa, Latin America, and Asia to improve outbreak response and vaccine coverage around the world.
Talya is passionate about research that provides innovative, practical solutions to improve health.
