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Andrew Pavlo

Associate Professor

Computer Science Department

  • Associate Professor
    Computer Science Department
  • Carnegie Mellon University, Computer Science Department, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, United States

BIO

Andy Pavlo is an Associate Professor with Indefinite Tenure 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 VLDB Early Career Award (2021), NSF CAREER (2019), Sloan Fellowship (2018), and the ACM SIGMOD Jim Gray Best Dissertation Award (2014). He was also the CEO & co-founder of the OtterTune database tuning start-up (2020) until it died. He earned his Ph.D. in 2013 at Brown University under Stan Zdonik and Mike Stonebraker. He likes databases.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Associate Professor
    Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Computer Science, Pittsburgh, United StatesJul 2019 - present
  • Assistant Professor
    Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Computer Science, Pittsburgh, United StatesSep 2013 - Jun 2019
  • Courtesy Assistant Professor
    Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Pittsburgh, United StatesJan 2014 - present

NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Co-Founder and CEO
    OtterTune Inc., Pittsburgh, United StatesMay 2020 - Jun 2024
  • Research Assistant
    Brown University, Department of Computer Science, Providence, United StatesSep 2007 - Aug 2013
  • Research Intern
    Vertica, Inc., Billerica, United StatesJun 2008 - Aug 2008
  • Systems Programmer - Condor Project
    University of Wisconsin–Madison, Department of Computer Sciences, Madison, United StatesSep 2005 - Aug 2007
  • Software Developer
    PAID, Inc., Owings Mills, United StatesMar 1999 - Dec 2004

DEGREES

  • Ph.D., Computer Science
    Brown University, Providence, United States2013
  • M.Sc., Computer Science
    Brown University, Providence, United States2009
  • M.Sc., Computer Science
    Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, United States2006
  • B.Sc. with Honors, Computer Science
    Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, United States2005

CAMPUS

  • Pittsburgh

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

  • 7 Affordable and Clean Energy
  • 9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

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