Avi Silberschatz (Hebrew: אבי זילברשץ; born in Haifa, Israel) is an Israeli computer scientist and researcher.

Silberschatz was elected an ACM Fellow in 1996 and received the Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award in 1998.

[1] He was elected an IEEE fellow in 2000[2] for contributions to the development of computer systems dealing with the efficient manipulation and processing of information.

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