Daniel Abadi is the Darnell-Kanal Professor of Computer Science at University of Maryland, College Park.
A year later, he graduated from Cambridge University with a master's degree in Computer Speech, Text, and Internet Technology.
[6] Abadi obtained his PhD degree in 2007, writing a dissertation titled Query Execution in Column-Oriented Database Systems.
Two PhD students advised by him, Alexander Thomson and Jose Faleiro, also received this award for their dissertations.
[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.