Alon Yitzchack Halevy (until 2000: Levy) is an Israeli-American
computer scientist
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Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation, as opposed to the hardware side on which computer engineers mainly focus (al ...
and a leading researcher in the area of
data integration. He was a research scientist at
Google from 2005 to 2015, when he left to become head of
Recruit Institute of Technology. He left Recruit in 2018 and joined
Facebook AI in 2019. Until 2006, he was a professor of computer science at the
University of Washington. He received his PhD from
Stanford University
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in 1993.
He is a fellow of the
ACM
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Computing
* ...
and a winner of the 2006
VLDB 10-year best paper award. He was a Sloan Fellow, and received the
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 2000.
He is the founder of two technology companies, Nimble Technology (now
Actuate Corporation) and Transformic Inc.
At Google he was involved in
Google Fusion Tables.
References
External links
* Alon Halevy's blog: http://alonhalevy.blogspot.com/
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Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Stanford University alumni
University of Washington faculty
Database researchers
American computer scientists
Israeli computer scientists
Living people
Google employees
Year of birth missing (living people)
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