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

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and a leading researcher in the area of

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. He was a research scientist at

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from 2005 to 2015, when he left to become head of Recruit Institute of Technology. He left Recruit in 2018 and joined

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AI in 2019. Until 2006, he was a professor of computer science at the

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. He received his PhD from Stanford University in 1993. He is a fellow of the

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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

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) and Transformic Inc. At Google he was involved in

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* Alon Halevy's blog: http://alonhalevy.blogspot.com/ * 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) {{compu-scientist-stub