 He is admitted to the Telecom Paris engineering school and studies at the Technion in Haifa for a year.Abiteboul received his PhD from the University of Southern California under the supervision of Seymour Ginsburg, in 1982.Abiteboul is a senior researcher at the Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique (INRIA), the French national research institute focussing on computer science and related areas, and has been a professor of the Collège de France.