Biography:Daniel Abadi

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Daniel Abadi
Education
AwardsSloan Fellowship (2011)
ACM Fellow (2020)
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
InstitutionsYale University
University of Maryland, College Park
ThesisQuery Execution in Column-Oriented Database Systems (2008)
Doctoral advisorSamuel Madden
Websitewww.cs.umd.edu/~abadi/

Daniel Abadi is the Darnell-Kanal Professor of Computer Science at University of Maryland, College Park.[2] His primary area of research is database systems, with contributions to stream databases, distributed databases, graph databases, and column-store databases.[3] He helped create C-Store, a column-oriented database, and HadoopDB, a hybrid of relational databases and Hadoop. Both database systems were commercialized by companies.

Abadi was the first to describe the PACELC theorem in a 2010 blog post. PACELC, a response to the CAP theorem, was proved formally in 2018 in a SIGACT News article.[4]

Education and career

Abadi obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Neuroscience from Brandeis University in 2002. A year later, he graduated from Cambridge University with a master's degree in Computer Speech, Text, and Internet Technology. He then pursued a PhD at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was advised by Samuel Madden.[5] At MIT, Abadi collaborated with several researchers to propose C-Store, a column-oriented database. C-Store was commercialized by Vertica and eventually acquired by Hewlett-Packard.[6] Abadi obtained his PhD degree in 2007, writing a dissertation titled Query Execution in Column-Oriented Database Systems.[7][5]

He became an assistant professor at Yale University in 2007 and subsequently an associate professor in 2012.[7] In 2010, a company named Hadapt commercialized his research on HadoopDB, a hybrid of relational databases and Hadoop.[6] Hadapt was acquired by Teradata in 2014.[8]

In 2017, he joined University of Maryland, College Park as the Darnell/Kanal Professor in Computer Science.[7]

Awards and recognitions

Abadi's 2008 dissertation Query Execution in Column-Oriented Database Systems received a SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award in 2009. Two PhD students advised by him, Alexander Thomson and Jose Faleiro, also received this award for their dissertations.[9]

He received a NSF CAREER award in 2009 and a Sloan Fellowship in 2011.[10][11]

Abadi received VLDB's best paper award in 2007 for Scalable Semantic Web Data Management Using Vertical Partitioning and test of time award in 2015 and 2019 for C-Store: A Column-oriented DBMS and HadoopDB: An Architectural Hybrid of MapReduce and DBMS Technologies for Analytical Workloads, respectively.[12][13]

He was selected as an ACM Fellow in 2020 "for contributions to stream databases, distributed databases, graph databases, and column-store databases".[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Daniel Abadi". www.cs.umd.edu. https://www.cs.umd.edu/~abadi/. 
  2. ↑ "Daniel Abadi named Darnell-Kanal Professor of Computer Science" (in en). 2017-01-26. https://www.cs.umd.edu/article/2017/01/daniel-abadi-named-darnell-kanal-professor-computer-science. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "2020 ACM Fellows Recognized for Work that Underpins Today's Computing Innovations" (in en). https://www.acm.org/media-center/2021/january/fellows-2020. 
  4. ↑ Golab, Wojciech (2018). "Proving PACELC". ACM SIGACT News 49: 73–81. doi:10.1145/3197406.3197420. https://doi.org/10.1145/3197406.3197420. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Abadi, Daniel (2008). Query execution in column-oriented database systems (PhD thesis). Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Yu, Sherwin (2012-03-14). "Hadapt: Yale Startup – Yale Scientific Magazine". https://www.yalescientific.org/2012/03/hadapt-yale-startup/. 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 "College Welcomes 15 New Faculty Members this Fall". 2017-09-29. https://cmns.umd.edu/news-events/news/college-welcomes-15-new-faculty-members-fall. 
  8. ↑ Novet, Jordan (2014-07-22). "Teradata grabs startups Hadapt & Revelytix that make Hadoop easier". https://venturebeat.com/business/teradata-grabs-startups-hadapt-revelytix-that-make-hadoop-easier/. 
  9. ↑ "SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award". https://sigmod.org/sigmod-awards/sigmod-jim-gray-doctoral-dissertation-award/. 
  10. ↑ "CAREER: Architecting A Database Management System for Semantic Web Data". https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0845643. 
  11. ↑ "Fellows Database". https://sloan.org/fellows-database?page=139. 
  12. ↑ "VLDB 2007 Best Paper Awards". https://www.vldb.org/archives/website/2007/program/best_paper_award.html. 
  13. ↑ "VLDB Test of Time Award". https://www.vldb.org/awards_10year.html. 

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