Alon Yitzchack Halevy (until 2000: Levy; ) is an Israeli-American

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and a researcher in the area of

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. Since 2024, he is currently a Distinguished Engineer at Google Cloud. Previously, he was a Director at Meta AI, the founding CEO of Recruit Institute of Technology (later renamed Megagon Labs). He was a research scientist at

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from 2005 to 2015. Until 2006, he was a professor of computer science at the

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, where his doctoral students included Xin Luna Dong and Zachary Ives. He received his PhD from

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in 1993, under the joint supervision of

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and

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. In 2021, he received the

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for his pioneering work on the foundations of data integration. He is a fellow of the ACM and a winner of the 2006 and 2018 VLDB 10-year best paper awards. 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

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) and Transformic Inc (acquired by Google in 2005). At Google he led the team that built

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and WebTables. In recent years, he has worked on different aspects of building AI to enhance well-being.

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* Alon Halevy's blog: http://alonhalevy.blogspot.com/ * 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) Recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers {{compu-scientist-stub