Christos Laspias

PhD Student in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon Univeristy

Email : claspias [at] cs [dot] cmu [dot] edu

About

I'm a PhD student in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. I am advised by Professor Jignesh M. Patel and I am part of CMU Database Group. My research focuses on optimizing the performance of database management systems with an emphasis on robust query execution. Recently I have been working on leveraging modern hardware for query exeuction.

Previously, I earned my bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Athens .


Industry Experience

Research Intern, Microsoft Gray Systems Lab (Summer 2025).

Graduate Intern, RelationalAI (Summer 2024).


Publications

A Hot Take on the Intel Analytics Accelerator for Database Management Systems
Christos Laspias, Andrew Pavlo, Jignesh M. Patel.
ADMS @ VLDB (2025).

Teaching

Database Systems-15445. TA (Spring 2025).

Advanced Database Systems-15721 . Head TA (Fall 2025, Fall 2024).