Sam Arch

Hi, I'm Sam! I'm a second-year PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University, co-advised by Prof. Andy Pavlo and Prof. Todd Mowry. My research interests are at the intersection of compiler optimization and database system performance.

Before starting grad school, I worked as a GPU Compiler Engineer at Apple, where I helped ship Metal-accelerated rendering in Blender 3.1. Before that, I worked on automatic index selection and wrote the query optimizer for Soufflé.

Publications

Dear User-Defined Functions,
 Inlining isn't working out so great for us.
 Let's try batching to make our relationship work.
Sincerely, SQL
Kai Franz, Samuel Arch, Denis Hirn, Torsten Grust, Todd C. Mowry, Andrew Pavlo
CIDR 2024.

Automatic Index Selection for Inequalities
Samuel Arch
Honours Thesis (Awarded the University Medal), The University of Sydney. 2020.

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