About

Hi! I’m Spyros Pavlatos and I am a fifth year PhD student at University of Pennsylvania advised by Vincent Liu. I’m also a proud member of PLClub!

My research interests are focused around Programming Languages, Compilers and Distributed Systems. More specifically, I am interested in using PL and Compiler techniques to speed up applications on serverless platforms, while maintaining correctness.

Before joining Penn, I completed my undergraduate studies at National Technical University of Athens under the supervision of Kostis Sagonas. My undergraduate thesis was focused on developing a test suite for model checking Persistent Memory programs.

News

May 2026internship

I’m spending the summer as an intern at Databricks, working on the Photon query engine.
Aug 2025award

I received the Gerondelis Foundation Graduate Scholarship!
May 2025internship

I’m spending the summer as an intern at AWS Redshift.
Apr 2025paper

Our paper “λ-trim: Optimizing Function Initialization in Serverless Applications With Cost-driven Debloating” was accepted at ASPLOS’25!
Apr 2024paper

Our paper “MuCache: A General Framework for Caching in Microservice Graphs” was accepted at NSDI’24!
May 2023event

I attended SSFT23 (Twelfth Summer School on Formal Techniques)!