Alon Lavie

Alon Lavie currently serves as the VP of AI Research at Phrase, a position held since August 2023. Lavie has an extensive academic and professional background in computational linguistics, with a long tenure at Carnegie Mellon University starting in 1989, progressing from Research Assistant to Consulting Professor and Research Professor. Previous industry roles include VP of Language Technologies at Unbabel from May 2019 to June 2023, and Machine Translation Group Manager at Amazon from July 2015 to March 2019, following the acquisition of Safaba Translation Solutions, where Lavie was Co-founder, Chairman, President, and CTO from July 2009 to June 2015. Early experience includes research roles at IBM and extensive education, culminating in a PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.