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

Wan Shen Lim

William Zhang

Yuchen Liang

CSD Courses Taught

15645 - Spring, 2026

15445 - Spring, 2026

15697 - Spring, 2026

15445 - Fall, 2025

15645 - Fall, 2025

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