Yoav Shoham (Hebrew: יואב שוהם; born 22 January 1956) is a computer scientist and a professor emeritus at Stanford University.

[1] His research spans artificial intelligence, logic and game theory.

Shoham co-teaches two popular game theory courses on Coursera.org,[6] along with Matthew O. Jackson and Kevin Leyton-Brown, viewed by over half a million people.

A serial entrepreneur, in 1999 Shoham founded TradingDynamics which was sold to Ariba in 2000.

Following that acquisition, Shoham joined Google as principal scientist where he worked until August 2017.