Andy Pavlo Joins ClickHouse to Start ClickHouse Labs

Carnegie Mellon’s Andy Pavlo is joining ClickHouse to establish ClickHouse Labs. Pavlo is among the most visible academic voices in database systems, known for the CMU database courses and lecture series that a large share of working database engineers learned from, and for consistently blunt public assessments of vendor claims. Industrial research labs attached to a single product have a mixed record — the work is only as useful as its willingness to publish results that do not flatter the sponsor. The appointment is a signal about where systems research funding is moving as university budgets tighten.