Tennenholtz received his B.Sc. in mathematics from
Tel Aviv University in 1986, and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in 1987 and 1991 respectively from the Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science in the
Weizmann Institute. From 1991 to 1993 he worked in the Robotics Laboratory at
Stanford University, after which he joined the faculty at the Technion in Haifa. He returned to Stanford briefly as a visiting professor from 1999 to 2002 before returning to the Technion. In 2008 he started working at
Microsoft Research and in 2011 he founded the basic research group at the Microsoft Israel R&D center. He has served as editor-in-chief of the
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, associate editor of
Games and Economic Behavior, the international journal of
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, served on the editorial board of the
Journal of Machine Learning Research, and served on the editorial board of
AI Magazine. He served as program chair of the ACM Electronic Commerce conference and of the TARK conference. ==Recognition==