Alon Y. Halevy

Alon Y. Halevy

Alon Yitzchack Halevy (until 2000: Levy) is a renowned Isreali-American computer scientist and a leading researcher in the area of data integration [Alon Y. Levy, Alberto O. Mendelzon, Yehoshua Sagiv, Divesh Srivastava: Answering Queries Using Views. PODS 1995: 95-104] [Alon Y. Halevy (2001). "Answering queries using views: A survey". The VLDB Journal: 270-294.] . He is currently a head of research at Google, Inc. 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) and Transformic Inc.

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* Alon Halevy's homepage at the University of Washington: http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/alon/

* Alon Halevy's blog: http://alonhalevy.blogspot.com/

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