Andy Pavlo

Andy Pavlo is an Associate Professor with Indefinite Tenure in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. Since 2013, he has led the Carnegie Mellon Database Research Group. His work has received several of the database community’s highest honors, including the IEEE TCDE Ramez Elmasri Database Education Award, VLDB Early Career Award, NSF CAREER Award, Sloan Research Fellowship, and ACM SIGMOD Jim Gray Best Dissertation Award in Databases. Pavlo previously co-founded and served as CEO of OtterTune, which applied machine learning to database optimization.