Abraham Silberschatz
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Abraham (Avi) Silberschatz is the Sidney J. Weinberg Professor and Chair of Computer Science at Yale University. He is a fellow of the ACM and of the IEEE. His primary research interests are database systems, operating systems, and distributed systems. His most recent research has focused on the areas of bioscience database systems, privacy and networking.
Silberschatz obtained his Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. 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.
