Alon Halevy: Short Bio
Dr. Alon Halevy received his Bachelors degree in Computer Science and
Mathematics from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1988, and his
Ph.D in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1993. From 1993
to 1997, Dr. Halevy was a principal member of technical staff at AT&T
Bell Laboratories, and then at AT&T Laboratories. He joined the
faculty of the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the
University of Washington in 1998.
Dr. Halevy's research interests are
in data integration, management of XML data, web-site management,
peer-data management systems, query optimization, database theory,
knowledge representation, and more generally, the the intersection
between Database and AI technologies. His research developed several
systems, such as the Information Manifold data integration system, the
Strudel web-site management system, and the Tukwila XML data
integration system. He was also a co-developer of XML-QL, which later
contributed to the development of XQuery standard for querying XML
data. In 1999, Dr. Halevy co-founded Nimble Technology, whose product
is a data integration system based on XML. In 2004, Dr. Halevy
founded Transformic Inc., a company that creates tools for bridging
semantic heterogeneity between disparate data sources.
Dr. Halevy was a Sloan Fellow (1999-2000), and received the
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
in 2000. He serves on the editorial boards of the VLDB Journal, the
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (currently, a member of
the advisory committee), and ACM Transactions on Internet
Technology. He served as the program chair for the ACM SIGMOD 2003
Conference.