Alon Halevy heads the Structured Data Management Research group at
Google. Prior to that, he was a professor of Computer Science at the
University of Washington in Seattle. In 1999, Dr. Halevy co-founded
Nimble Technology, one of the first companies in the Enterprise
Information Integration space, and in 2004, Dr. Halevy founded
Transformic Inc., a company that created search engines for the deep
web, and was acquired by Google. Dr Halevy is a Fellow of the
Association for Computing Machinery, received the the Presidential
Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 2000, and
was a Sloan Fellow (1999-2000). He received his Ph.D in Computer
Science from Stanford University in 1993.