Name Alon Halevy Books Beautiful Data | Education Stanford University Role Computer scientist | |
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Awards Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, Sloan Fellowship, ACM Fellow Similar People Peter Norvig, Raghu Ramakrishnan, Pierre Lindenbaum | ||
Organizations founded Nimble Technology | ||
Alon Halevy & Chet Haase: "Donuts & Coffee" | Talks at Google
Alon Yitzchack Halevy (until 2000: Levy) is an Israeli-American computer scientist 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. Until 2006, he was a professor of computer science at the University of Washington. He received his PhD from Stanford University in 1993.
He is a fellow of the ACM 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.