His research focuses on energy-efficient integrated systems, including the circuit, device and communications techniques used to design them. Previously, he held positions with Lion Semiconductor, Wilocity, Cadence, Xilinx, Oracle, Intel, AMD, Rambus and IBM, working on integrated circuits for a range of applications. He received the IBM Faculty Award in 2008, the 2009 Hellman Family Faculty Fund Award, the 2010 UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering Outstanding Teaching Award, the 2010 ISSCC Jack Raper Award for Outstanding Technology Directions Paper, the 2011 Symposium on VLSI Circuits Best Student Paper Award, and the 2012 and 2013 Custom Integrated Circuits Conference Best Student Paper Award. Alon received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D., all in electrical engineering, from Stanford University.