I am an Associate Professor with Indefinite Tenure of Databaseology in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. My research interest is in database management systems, specifically self-driving / autonomous architectures, transaction processing systems, and large-scale data analytics. At CMU, I am a member of the Database Group and the Parallel Data Laboratory. I was the co-founder and CEO of the OtterTune start-up but then it died.
- Email:
- pavlo@cs.cmu.edu
- Admin:
- Tracy Farbacher
- Office:
- GHC 9019
- Office Hours:
- Wednesdays @ 3:30-4:30pm
- Bluesky:
- @andypavlo.bsky.social
- Mastodon:
- @andy_pavlo@discuss.systems
- Twitter:
- @andy_pavlo
- GitHub:
- apavlo
- ORCID:
- 0000-0001-6040-6991
Students:
Current:
Graduated:
- Matt Butrovich
- Lin Ma
- Prashanth Menon (with Todd Mowry)
- Dana Van Aken
- Huanchen Zhang (with Dave Andersen and Michael Kaminsky)
- Joy Arulraj
- Xiangyao Yu (with Srini Devadas)
- Lianghong Xu (with Greg Ganger)
Projects:
Teaching:
- Spring 2025 — Special Topics in Database Systems: Query Optimization (15-799)
- Fall 2024 — Database Systems (15-445/645)
- Spring 2024 — Advanced Database Systems (15-721)
- Fall 2023 — Database Systems (15-445/645)
- Spring 2023 — Advanced Database Systems (15-721)
- Fall 2022 — Database Systems (15-445/645)
- Spring 2022 — Special Topics in Database Systems (15-799)
- Fall 2020 — Database Systems (15-445/645)
- Spring 2020 — Advanced Database Systems (15-721)
- Fall 2019 — Database Systems (15-445/645)
- Spring 2019 — Advanced Database Systems (15-721)
- Fall 2018 — Database Systems (15-445/645)
- Spring 2018 — Advanced Database Systems (15-721)
- Fall 2017 — Database Systems (15-445/645)
- Spring 2017 — Advanced Database Systems (15-721)
- Fall 2016 — Database Applications (15-415/615)
- Spring 2016 — Advanced Database Systems (15-721)
- Fall 2015 — Database Applications (15-415/15-615)
- Spring 2015 — Database Applications (15-415/15-615)
- Spring 2014 — Database Applications (15-415/15-615)
- Fall 2013 — Special Topics in Database Systems (15-799)
- Spring 2012 — NewSQL - The Course (Brown)
- Spring 2011 — NoSQL - Non-standard, Web-scale Databases (Brown)
Activities:
- Fall 2024 — Database Building Blocks (Seminar Series)
- Fall 2023 — ML⇄DB Technical Talks (Seminar Series)
- Fall 2022 — ¡Databases! - A Database Seminar Series
- Spring 2022 — Vaccination Database Tech Talks - Booster (Seminar Series)
- Fall 2021 — Vaccination Database Tech Talks - Second Dose (Seminar Series)
- Spring 2021 — Vaccination Database Tech Talks - First Dose (Seminar Series)
- Fall 2020 — Quarantine Database Tech Talks (Seminar Series)
- Summer 2019 — Self-Driving Databases & My Pregnant Wife: The Hard Parts (Speaking Tour)
- Summer 2019 — Database Research Internships
- Fall 2018 — Hardware Accelerated Database Lectures (Seminar Series)
- Summer 2018 — Database Research Internships
- Fall 2017 — Time Series Database Lectures (Seminar Series)
- Summer 2017 — Database Research Internships
- Summer 2016 — Database Research Internships
- Fall 2015 — The Databaseology Lectures (Seminar Series)
- Summer 2015 — Database Research Internships
- Fall 2014 — Seven Databases in Seven Weeks (Seminar Series)
- Winter 2014 — Cache Rules Everything Around Me (Speaking Tour)