Predicate pushdown is a widely adopted query optimization. Existing systems and prior work mostly use pattern-matching rules to decide when a predicate can be pushed through certain operators like ...

My main line of work is around the state-of-the-art SMT constraint solver Z3 (opens in new tab). Z3 was developed with Leonardo de Moura, Lev Nachmanson and Christoph Wintersteiger. Z3 is used for ...