Alon Lavie
VP of Language Technologies
Alon Lavie recently joined Unbabel as the VP of Language Technologies. From June 2015 to March 2019, Alon was a Senior Manager at Amazon, where he led and managed the Amazon Machine Translation R&D team in Pittsburgh, PA. Prior to joining Amazon, Alon was a co-founder of "Safaba Translation Solutions", an MT technology start-up, and served the company as Chairman, President and CTO. Safaba developed automated translation solutions for large global enterprises and was acquired by Amazon in June 2015. For almost 20 years (1996-2015) Alon was a Research Professor at the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University where he continues to be affiliated as an adjunct Consulting Professor. Alon served as the President of the International Association for Machine Translation (IAMT) (2013-2015), was president of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA) (2008-2012), and was General Chair of the AMTA 2010 and 2012 conferences. He is also a member of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), where he was president of SIGParse - ACL's special interest group on parsing (2008-2013). He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.
Papers published
- 2015
- 2014