Alon Halevy

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Alon Y. Halevy
Born
Alon Yitzchack Levy
Alma mater Stanford University
Known forData integration
Notable work The Infinite Emotions of Coffee; Principles of Data Integration
AwardsFellow of the ACM, VLDB 10-year Best Paper Award (2006, 2018), Sloan Fellow, Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2000), and SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award (2021)
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
Institutions Google, Recruit Institute of Technology, Facebook AI, University of Washington
Doctoral advisor Richard Fikes, Edward Feigenbaum

Alon Yitzchack Halevy (until 2000: Levy) is an Israeli-American computer scientist and a researcher in the area of data integration. [1] Since 2024, he is currently a Distinguished Engineer at Google Cloud. [2] Previously, he was a Director at Meta AI, [2] the founding CEO of Recruit Institute of Technology (later renamed Megagon Labs). [3] He was a research scientist at Google from 2005 to 2015. [2] [4] Until 2006, he was a professor of computer science at the University of Washington, [5] where his doctoral students included Xin Luna Dong and Zachary Ives. He received his PhD from Stanford University in 1993, under the joint supervision of Richard Fikes and Edward Feigenbaum. [6]

In 2021, he received the SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award 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. [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 (acquired by Google in 2005).

At Google he led the team that built Google Fusion Tables and WebTables. [8] [9] [10] In recent years, he has worked on different aspects of building AI to enhance well-being. [11] [12]

References

  1. ↑ Halevy, A. Y. (2001). "Answering queries using views: A survey". The VLDB Journal. 10 (4): 270–294. doi:10.1007/s007780100054.
  2. 1 2 3 "Alon Halevy". LinkedIn.
  3. ↑ "Alon Halevy, Data Management and AI Authority from Google Research, to Head Recruit Institute of Technology (RIT)" (Press release).
  4. ↑ "Alon Halevy Google page".
  5. ↑ "Alon Halevy at the University of Washington".
  6. ↑ Alon Halevy at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  7. ↑ "Alon Halevy in the ACM Digital Library".
  8. ↑ Gonzalez, H.; Halevy, A.; Jensen, C. S.; Langen, A.; Madhavan, J.; Shapley, R.; Shen, W. (2010). "Google Fusion Tables". Proceedings of the 1st ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing - SoCC '10. p. 175. doi:10.1145/1807128.1807158. ISBN   9781450300360. S2CID   1259439.
  9. ↑ Gonzalez, H.; Halevy, A. Y.; Jensen, C. S.; Langen, A.; Madhavan, J.; Shapley, R.; Shen, W.; Goldberg-Kidon, J. (2010). "Google Fusion Tables". Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Management of Data - SIGMOD '10. p. 1061. doi:10.1145/1807167.1807286. ISBN   9781450300322. S2CID   9133302.
  10. ↑ Cafarella, M.; Halevy, A.; Wang, D. Z.; Wu, E.; Zhang, Y. (2008). "WebTables: Exploring the Power of Tables on the Web". Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment. 1 (1): 538–549. doi:10.14778/1453856.1453916.
  11. ↑ Stray, J.; et al. (2024). "Building Human Values into Recommender Systems: An Interdisciplinary Synthesis". ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems. 2 (3): 1–57. arXiv: 2207.10192 . doi:10.1145/3632297.
  12. ↑ Halevy, A.; et al. (2022). "Preserving Integrity in Online Social Networks". Communications of the ACM. 65 (2): 92–98. arXiv: 2009.10311 . doi:10.1145/3462671.
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