Aaron Elmore

Aaron J. Elmore is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science, the Committee on Data Science, and the College of the University of Chicago. Aaron was previously a Postdoctoral Associate at MIT and his thesis on Elasticity Primitives for Database-as-a-Service was completed at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Prior to receiving a PhD, Aaron spent several years in industry and completed an MS at the University of Chicago. His recent research interests focus on building data systems that address the growing data deluge. This includes building a resource-efficient database system, new compression techniques for databases, bringing git-like functionality to Databases, and data discovery. He has served as chair for SIGMOD demonstration track, SIGMOD’s inaugural student research competition, as proceedings editor for VLDB, is currently an associate editor for SIGMOD record and is a recipient of the NSF early CAREER award.