University of Maryland, College Park
8125 Paint Branch Drive
College Park, MD 20742
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Bio
Prof. Abadi performs research on database system architecture and implementation, especially at the intersection with scalable and distributed systems. He is best-known for the development of the storage and query execution engines of the C-Store (column-oriented database) prototype, which was commercialized by Vertica and eventually acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2011, for his HadoopDB research on fault tolerant scalable analytical database systems which was commercialized by Hadapt and acquired by Teradata in 2014, and deterministic, scalable, transactional, distributed systems such as Calvin which is currently being commercialized by Fauna. Abadi is an ACM Fellow and has been a recipient of a Churchill Scholarship, a NSF CAREER Award, a Sloan Research Fellowship, a VLDB Best Paper Award, two VLDB Test of Time Awards (for the work on C-Store and HadoopDB), the 2008 SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award, the 2013-2014 Yale Provost's Teaching Prize, and the 2013 VLDB Early Career Researcher Award. He was the PhD dissertation advisor of Alexander Thomson's and Jose Falerio's PhD dissertations, both of which won SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Awards (in 2015 and 2020 respectively). He received his PhD in 2008 from MIT. He blogs at DBMS Musings and tweets at @daniel_abadi.
News
- News: Daniel Abadi selected as an ACM Fellow!
- News: Jose Faleiro's dissertation (performed while a PhD student in the Abadi lab) wins the 2020 SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award
- News: HadoopDB paper wins the 2019 VLDB Test of Time Award. Summary of acceptance speech can be found here.
Blog
Projects
See the DSLAM Website.
Publications
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Selected Talks
- VLDB 2015 tutorial on SQL-on-Hadoop systems
- EDBT 2013 Keynote Address
- Hadoop and Graph Data Management: Challenges and Opportunities
- CAP, PACELC, and Determinism
- HadoopWorld 2010
- VLDB 2009 Tutorial on Column-Stores
- SIGMOD 2009 Jim Gray Dissertation Award Talk
- NE DB Day 2009
- SIGMOD 2008
- NE DB Day 2008
- VLDB 2007
Teaching
- CMSC 624 - Database System Architecture and Implementation
- CMSC 828N - Advanced Topics in Information Processing; Database System Architecture and Implementation
- CMSC 424 - Database Design
Service
- CIDR 2019 Program Committee
- SIGMOD 2018 Group Leader
- CIDR 2017 Program Committee
- VLDB 2016 Associate Editor
- VLDB 2015 Program Committee
- SIGMOD 2014 Program Committee
- CIDR 2013 Program Committee
- SIGMOD 2011 Program Committee
- CIDR 2011 Program Committee
- New England Database Summit 2010 Program Chair
- VLDB 2010 Program Committee
- SIGMOD 2010 Program Committee
- VLDB 2009 Program Committee
- SIGMOD 2009 Local Arrangements Chair
- SIGMOD IDAR 2009 Program Committee
- EDBT 2009 Demo Track Program Committee
- Winston Churchill Foundation 2008 Selection Committee
- Morse College Resident Fellow
- VLDB 2008 Program Committee
- ESWC 2008 Ph.D. Symposium Program Committee