Abraham Silberschatz
Avi Silberschatz (born in
Haifa, Israel) is an Israeli
computer scientist and
researcher. He graduated in 1976 with a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the
State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook. He became the Sidney J. Weinberg Professor of Computer Science at
Yale University, USA in 2005. He was the chair of the Computer Science department at Yale from 2005 to 2011. Prior to coming to Yale in 2003, he was the Vice President of the Information Sciences Research Center at
Bell Labs. He previously held an endowed professorship at the
University of Texas at Austin, where he taught until 1993. His research interests include database systems, operating systems, storage systems, and network management. Silberschatz was elected an
ACM Fellow in 1996 and received the Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award in 1998.
He was elected an IEEE fellow in 2000 and received the IEEE
IEEE Taylor L. Booth Education Award in 2002 for " teaching, mentoring, and writing influential textbooks in the operating systems and database systems areas".
He was elected an AAAS fellow in 2009. Silberschatz
is a member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering.
His work has been cited over 34,000 times.
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