Abraham Silberschatz

{{autobiography|date=March 2024}}

{{short description|American computer scientist}}

{{Infobox scientist

| name = Avi Silberschatz

| native_name = אבי זילברשץ

| native_name_lang = he

| image = Avi silberschatz.jpg

| field = Computer Science

| work_institution = Yale University

| alma_mater = Stony Brook University
Yale University
The Hebrew Reali School

| doctoral_advisor = Arthur Bernstein
Richard Kieburtz

| doctoral_students = C. Mohan
Raghu Ramakrishnan

| known_for = database systems
operating systems

| prizes = ACM Fellow
IEEE Fellow
AAAS Fellow
IEEE Taylor L. Booth Education Award (2002)
ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award (1998)
ACM SIGMOD Contribution Award (1997)
2019 VLDB Test of Time Award

| website = http://www.cs.yale.edu/~avi/

}}

Avi Silberschatz ({{Langx|he|אבי זילברשץ}}; born in Haifa, Israel) is an Israeli computer scientist and researcher. He is known for having authored many influential texts in computer science. He finished high school at the Hebrew Reali School in Haifa and graduated in 1976 with a Ph.D. in computer science from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook. His research interests include database systems, operating systems, storage systems, and network management.

He held a professorship at the University of Texas at Austin, where he taught until 1993. He became a professor at Yale University in 2005, where he was the chair of the Computer Science department from 2005 to 2011. Prior to coming to Yale in 2003, Silberschatz worked at the Bell Labs.

== Awards and recognition ==

Silberschatz was elected an ACM Fellow in 1996 and received the Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award in 1998.{{Cite web |title=Abraham Silberschatz - Award Winner |url=http://awards.acm.org/award_winners/silberschatz_1405026.cfm |access-date=2013-12-06 |archive-date=2013-06-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130617014703/http://awards.acm.org/award_winners/silberschatz_1405026.cfm |url-status=live }}

He was elected an IEEE fellow in 2000{{Cite web |title=IEEE Fellows |website=Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |url=http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/fellows/sfellows.html#Si |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110820074035/http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/fellows/sfellows.html#Si |archivedate=2011-08-20 }} for contributions to the development of computer systems dealing with the efficient manipulation and processing of information.{{Cite web|

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He received the IEEE Taylor L. Booth Education Award in 2002 for "teaching, mentoring, and writing influential textbooks in the operating systems and database systems areas".{{Cite web |title= IEEE Taylor L. Booth Education Award |url= http://www.computer.org/portal/web/awards/taylorbooth |access-date= 2013-12-06 |archive-date= 2011-01-10 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110110001509/http://www.computer.org/portal/web/awards/taylorbooth |url-status= dead }}

He was elected an AAAS fellow in 2009.{{Cite web |title=AAAS Fellows |url=http://www.aaas.org/aboutaaas/fellows |access-date=2013-12-06 |archive-date=2024-06-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240618194557/https://www.aaas.org/fellows |url-status=live }}

Silberschatz is a member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering.{{Cite web |title=Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering |url=http://casemembers.wildapricot.org/Default.aspx?pageId=1086086 |access-date=2013-12-06 |archive-date=2012-08-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120814063317/http://casemembers.wildapricot.org/Default.aspx?pageId=1086086 |url-status=live }}