Yuval Shahar

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Yuval Shahar
Born	1958 Jerusalem
Nationality	Israeli
Scientific career
Fields	Artificial intelligence, medical informatics
Institutions	Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Doctoral advisor	Mark Musen
Website	ise.bgu.ac.il/faculty/shahar

Yuval Shahar (born 1958) is an Israeli professor, physician, researcher, and computer scientist.

Shahar served as the chair of the Ben Gurion University (BGU) Department of Software and Information Systems Engineering,^[1] the Josef Erteschik Chair in Information Systems Engineering, and head of the BGU Medical Informatics Research Center.^[2]

Shahar's research is on artificial intelligence in medicine, focusing on medical decision-support systems for physicians and for patients, and on automated knowledge discovery from time-oriented clinical data.