Pittsburgh, PA – The Carnegie Mellon Database Research Group is proud to announce that Prof. Andy Pavlo is the recipient of the 2026 IEEE Technical Committee on Data Engineering (TCDE) Ramez Elmasri Outstanding Database Education Award. The…
Pittsburgh, PA – The Carnegie Mellon Database Group (CMU-DB) announced a new initiative to provide database systems education to incarcerated individuals across the United States (including all territories) completely free of charge. Throug…
Posted: January 30, 2026 ┃ Category: Annoucements PITTSBURGH, PA — The Carnegie Mellon Database Research Group is proud to present the PostgreSQL vs. The World Seminar Series, a spring 2026 program examining the evolving landscape of databa…
Posted: September 22, 2025 ┃ Category: Annoucements Pittsburgh, PA — The Carnegie Mellon University Database Group is stoked to announce its Future Data Systems Seminar Series for Fall 2025. It is a forward-looking lecture series devoted to…
Posted: August 8, 2025 ┃ Category: Uncategorized Informatica has entered into a groundbreaking collaboration with CMUDB to drive innovation at the intersection of generative AI and data management. This is Informatica’s first partnership of…
Posted: April 5, 2025 ┃ Category: Fellowship Pittsburgh, PA – Carnegie Mellon University announced that Will Zhang, the #1 ranked PhD student in the CMU Database Group, has been awarded the 2025 MongoDB PhD Fellowship. This Fellowship recog…
Posted: January 30, 2025 ┃ Category: Annoucements Pittsburgh, PA — The Carnegie Mellon University Database Research Group is pleased to announce its wildest seminar series yet starting February 2025. “SQL or Death?” is no-holds-barred explo…
Posted: September 9, 2024 ┃ Category: Annoucements Pittsburgh, PA – The Carnegie Mellon Database Group is pleased to announce the launch of its new Industry Affiliates Program (IAP), designed to create stronger ties between academia and the…
Posted: August 3, 2023 ┃ Category: Annoucements Pittsburgh, PA — The Carnegie Mellon University Database Research Group celebrates the grand convergence of data storage and computational mastery with the ML⇄DB Seminar Series (Machine Learni…
Posted: August 11, 2021 ┃ Category: Awards Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania — Databases are not a field in systems research or computer science. Databases are a lifestyle. At all points in one’s life, you should consider whether whatever you are do…
Posted: May 16, 2021 ┃ Category: Awards Pittsburgh, PA — The Carnegie Mellon Database Group is pleased to announce that CS alumnus Prof. Huanchen Zhang (now faculty at Tsinghua University) has won the 2021 ACM SIGMOD Jim Gray Dissertation A…
The CMU Database Group offers a delicious selection of database courses in the Computer Science Department, both at the undergraduate level and graduate level. This project-oriented course provides an introduction to the internal architectu…