Michael Stonebraker is a renowned computer scientist and Turing Award winner, celebrated for his contributions to database management systems. A professor at MIT and UC Berkeley, he led the development of Postgres, Vertica, DBOS, INGRES, Tamr, and numerous others.
Andy Pavlo is an Associate Professor of Databaseology 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 co-founder of https://sydht.ai/