| Alon Y. Halevy | |
| Birth Name: | Alon Yitzchack Levy |
| Fields: | Computer Science |
| Workplaces: | Google, Recruit Institute of Technology, Facebook AI, University of Washington |
| Alma Mater: | Stanford University |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Richard Fikes, Edward Feigenbaum |
| Known For: | Data integration |
| Awards: | Fellow of the ACM, VLDB 10-year Best Paper Award (2006), Sloan Fellow, Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2000) |
Alon Yitzchack Halevy (until 2000: Levy) is an Israeli-American computer scientist and a researcher in the area of data integration.[1] He was a research scientist at Google from 2005 to 2015,[2] when he left to become head of Recruit Institute of Technology.[3] [4] He left Recruit in 2018 and joined Facebook AI in 2019.[5] Until 2006, he was a professor of computer science at the University of Washington,[6] where his doctoral students included Xin Luna Dong. He received his PhD from Stanford University in 1993, under the joint supervision of Richard Fikes and Edward Feigenbaum.
He is a fellow of the ACM and a winner of the 2006 VLDB 10-year best paper award.[7] 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.[8] [9]