Recruit Holdings Co. announced that Alon Halevy to head Recruit Institute of Technology (RIT). Main research laboratory will be established in Silicon Valley in US.

Recruit Institute of Technology (RIT), the research institute for AI of Recruit Holdings Co. Ltd. will establish a global research and development laboratory in Silicon Valley on November 4, 2015. With Dr. Alon Halevy, previously with Google Research, who is a world-renowned authority on data management technology and AI, on board as the head of RIT, Recruit will further accelerate its global-scale AI research.

Dr. Halevy will cooperate with Recruit group companies in Japan and overseas as the executive director of RIT and Senior Vice President of Research. He will be engaged in data management and AI research and business development centering on the HR and marketing media businesses. Dr. Alon Halevy is a computer scientist, entrepreneur and educator.

He became a professor of Computer Science at the University of Washington and founded the Database Research Group at the university. Alon Halevy, renowned authority on data management and AI from Google Research to head Recruit Institute of Technology (RIT). Main research laboratory will be established in Silicon Valley in US.

He founded Nimble Technology Inc. and Transformic Inc. Upon the acquisition of Transformic by Google Inc., he became responsible for research on structured data as a senior staff research scientist at Google's head office and was engaged in research and development, such as developing Google Fusion Tables.