Avi Silberschatz
Sidney J. Weinberg Professor of Computer Science and Chairman

Ph.D. in Computer Science, S.U.N.Y. at Stony Brook, August 1976
Joined Yale Faculty 2003
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Office Location: AKW 214
Telephone: 203.432.4713

Avi Silberschatz is the Sidney J. Weinberg Professor of Computer Science and the Chair of the Computer Science Department at Yale University. Prior to joining Yale, he was the Vice President of the Information Sciences Research Center at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey. Prior to that, he held a chaired professorship in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. His research interests include database systems, operating systems, Bioscience database systems, storage system, network management, and distributed systems.

Professor Silberschatz is an ACM Fellow and an IEEE Fellow. He received the 2002 IEEE Taylor L. Booth Education Award, the 1998 ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award, the 1997 ACM SIGMOD Contribution Award, and the IEEE Computer Society Outstanding Paper award for the article "Capability Manager," which appeared in the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. In recognition for his outstanding level of innovation and technical excellence, Professor Silberschatz was awarded the Bell Laboratories President's Award, 1998 (QTM Project), 1999 (DataBlitz Project), and 2004 (NetInventory Project).

Professor Silberschatz has graduated over a dozen Ph.D. students who now hold positions in academic institutions and industrial research laboratories. His writings have appeared in numerous ACM and IEEE publications and in other professional conferences and journals. He obtained over four dozen patents and over two dozen grants. He is a co-author of two well known textbooks -- Operating System Concepts and Database System Concepts

In addition to his academic and industrial positions, Professor Silberschatz served as a member of the Biodiversity and Ecosystems Panel on President Clinton's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology, as an advisor for the National Science Foundation, and as a consultant for several private industry companies.

Representative Publications:
	Silberschatz, A. and Z. Kedem, "Consistency in Hierarchical Database Systems," Journal of the ACM 27, January 1980.
	Read, R., D. Fussell, and A. Silberschatz "A Multi-Resolution Relational Data Model," International Conference on Very Large Databases, August 1992.
	Jagadish, H. V., D. Lieuwen, R. Rastogi, A. Silberschatz, and S. Sudarshan, "Dali: A High Performance Main Memory Storage Manager," International Conference on Very Large Databases, September 1994.
	Jagadish, H. V., I. Mumick, A. Silberschatz, "View Maintenance Issues for the Chronicle Data Model," ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD Symposium on Principles of Database Systems, May 1995.
	Ozden, B., R. Rastogi, and A. Silberschatz, "Research Issues in Multimedia Storage Servers." ACM Computing Surveys, December 1995.
	Silberschatz, A. and A. Tuzhilin, "What Make Patterns Interesting in Knowledge Discovery Systems," IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, December 1996.
	Mehortra, S., H. Korth, R. Rastogi, and A. Silberschatz, "Ensuring Consistency in Multidatabases by Preserving Two-Level Serializability," ACM Transactions on Database Systems, June 1998.
	Schnase, J.L., J. Cushing, M. Frame, A. Frondorf, E. Landis, D. Maier, and A. Silberschatz, "Information Technology challenges of biodiversity and ecosystems informatics," Information Systems 28, 2003.
	Breitbart, Y., M. Garofalakis, B. Jai, C. Martin, R. Rastogi, and A. Silberschatz, "Topology Discovery in Heterogeneous IP Networks: The NetInventory System, Transactions on Networking, June 2004.
	Abiteboul, S., et al. "The Lowell Database Research Self-Assessment," Communications of the ACM 48, 5, May 2005.
	Wang, H., H. Xie, L. Qiu, A. Silberschatz, and R. Yang, "Optimal ISP Subscription for Internet Multihoming: Algorithm Design and Implication Analysis," INFOCOOM 2005, March 2005.