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Sarit Kraus

Sarit Kraus is an Israeli computer scientist and professor at Bar-Ilan University, known for her work on multiagent systems, automated negotiation and non-monotonic reasoning.

born 1960Automated negotiation with peopleMultiagent systems researchThe SharedPlans collaboration modelNon-monotonic reasoning

Occupation: computer scientist, artificial intelligence researcher, university teacher
Education: Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Sarit Kraus was born in 1960 in Jerusalem

Sarit Kraus was born in Jerusalem in 1960 to Yaakov and Meira Bloch. She grew up in the Neve Sha'anan neighborhood of Haifa and attended Ironi Vav High School there. She did national service in the Baka neighborhood of Jerusalem.

At the Hebrew University of Jerusalem she earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics and computer science in 1982 and a master's degree in 1983. She completed her PhD in computer science in 1989 under Daniel Lehmann. She then spent 2 years as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Maryland, College Park.

She joined the faculty of Bar-Ilan University in 1991 and later headed its artificial intelligence area. Her work includes automated agents that negotiate with people, such as the Diplomat agent, and methods for coalition formation among self-interested agents. With Barbara Grosz of Harvard she developed the SharedPlans model of collaboration, and she also worked on security algorithms used at the Los Angeles airport.

She served as dean of the Faculty of Exact Sciences at Bar-Ilan from July 2023 to 2025. She married Rabbi Yitzchak Kraus in 1981, and they have 5 children. The family lives in Givat Shmuel.