Prof. Onn Shehory received his B.Sc. in physics and computer science in 1989, M.Sc. in physics in 1992, and Ph.D. in computer science in 1996, all from Bar Ilan University. He was a post-doctoral fellow and then a visiting assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University, from 1996 to 1999. In 1999 he joined the IBM Haifa Research Lab and served as a research staff member and a research project leader through October 2016. From 2000 to 2006 he was an adjunct lecturer and senior lecturer at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. From 2002 to 2016 he was an adjunct senior lecturer at Bar Ilan University. On October 2016 he was appointed an associate professor of information systems at the Bar Ilan University.
Prof. Shehory has edited 17 books and authored over 90 articles. Among his research interests are multi-agent systems, automated collaboration, coalition and group formation, algorithmic game theory, dependable and secure AI, and software engineering. A 1998 paper of his won the 2014 IFAAMAS influential paper award. Two other papers of his won best paper awards.
Prof. Shehory is an associate editor of the International Journal on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, of the International Journal on Agent Oriented Software Engineering, and of Annals of Mathematics and AI. He is an alumni board member of the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (IFAAMAS). Prof. Shehory served as general and program chair of multiple international conferences including the International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2009) and the international conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2007, 2013)