Jigao Luo

(he/him)

I'm a 2nd-year PhD student of the Systems Group at TU Darmstadt TU Darmstadt , advised by Prof. Carsten Binnig .

My research focuses on building GPU-accelerated lakehouse to power the next generation of cloud-native analytical systems. I am an external contributor to NVIDIA RAPIDS cuDF, working on enhancing the performance of the GPU Parquet reader.

Before my PhD, I completed both my Bachelor's and Master's degrees at TU München TU Munich , famous for its strong research focus on relational database systems. During my Master's, I also did a research internship at Zilliz , where I worked on vector similarity search.

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Blogs and Resources

[DataFusion Blog] Embedding User-Defined Indexes in Apache Parquet Files

We published the blog on the Apache DataFusion Blog, and you’ll be redirected there.

Posted on July 14, 2025

Profiling Tutorial

ADMS Teaching

Posted on Jun 13, 2025

[Zilliz Blog] HM-ANN Efficient Billion-Point Nearest Neighbor Search on Heterogeneous Memory

We published the blog, as a summary of a NeurIPS 2020 paper, on the Zilliz Blog, and you’ll be redirected there.

Posted on Dec 10, 2021

Check out my teaching experiences

Teaching

Advanced Data Management Systems SS 2025, Teaching assistant (& delivered the GPU lecture), TU Darmstadt
Advanced Data Management Systems SS 2024, Teaching assistant (& delivered the GPU lecture), TU Darmstadt
Scalable Data Management Systems WS 2023, Teaching assistant, TU Darmstadt
[IN0008] Foundation of Database (Grundlagen: Datenbanken) WS 2019, Tutor, TU München
[IN0003] Functional Programming and Verification WS 2018, Tutor, TU München
Jigao Luo

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