Andrew Pavlo

Andy Pavlo

Associate Professor

Website

CMU Scholars

ORCID 0000-0001-6040-6991

Office

9019 Gates and Hillman Centers

Email

Phone

(412) 268-3057

Department

Computer Science Department

Administrative Support

Michael Stanley

Research Areas

Research Interests

     Data-Intensive and Cloud Computing

     Databases

     Distributed Systems

Advisees

Sam Arch

Yuchen Liang

CSD Courses Taught

15445 - Fall, 2026

15645 - Fall, 2026

15645 - Spring, 2026

15445 - Spring, 2026

15697 - Spring, 2026

Biography

Andy Pavlo is an Associate Professor of Databaseology in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. His (unnatural) infatuation with database systems has inadvertently caused him to incur several distinctions, such as the NSF CAREER (2019), a Sloan Fellowship (2018), and the ACM SIGMOD Jim Gray Dissertation Award (2014). He is also the CEO & co-founder of the OtterTune database tuning start-up (2020).

Research Statement

I only care about databases.

Publications

Conference

Towards Functional Decomposition of Storage Formats

2025 • Cidr 2025 Proceedings of Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research
Prammer M, Zeng X, Meng R, McKinney W, Zhang H, Pavlo A, Patel JM

Conference

Dear User-Defined Functions, Inlining isn’t working out so great for us. Let’s try batching to make our relationship work. Sincerely, SQL

2024 • 14th Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research Cidr 2024
Franz K, Arch S, Hirn D, Grust T, Mowry TC, Pavlo A