Biography
Qiong Luo is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). Her research interests are in big data systems, parallel and distributed systems, and data-intensive applications. Current focus is on data management on modern hardware, GPU acceleration for data analytics, and data processing support for e-science. Qiong received her Ph.D. in Computer Sciences from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, her M.S. and B.S. in Computer Sciences from Beijing (Peking) University, China.
Qiong's HKUST Faculty Profile
What's New
I am recruiting PhD students in the CSE Program in Hong Kong and the DSA Program in Guangzhou for the Fall semester of 2025.
I gave a keynote talk (slides) on GPU Acceleration for Data Processing and Analytics at the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Big Data at Sorrento, Italy on December 17, 2023.
I am also serving as a Professor of Data Science and Analytics (DSA) at the HKUST (Guangzhou) campus. My HKUST (Guangzhou) Faculty Profile is up.
Research
The Rapids Group at HKUST and our GitHub page
Current Projects:
Past projects: Catalac: Pervasive Query Processing, including GPUQP: Query Processing on the GPU, and Mars: MapReduce on the GPU.
Publication Records @ DBLP,
Google Scholar
Professional Services
Conference organization
Program Committee Co-Chair: EDBT 2024 held in Paestum, Italy on Mar 25-28, 2024.
Current program committees:
IEEE Bigdata 2024,
The International ADMS Workshop in conjunction with VLDB 2024,
The GPC 2024 Conference.
Associate Editor:
Distributed and Parallel Databases, Springer (2013 - present)
The VLDB Journal, Springer (2021 - present)
Past services
Teaching & Advising
Fall 2024: COMP 1021 - Introduction to Computer Science
Current graduate students:
Note: I adhere to the HKUST's and HKUST(GZ)'s guideline for RPG thesis supervision and expect my students to fulfill their responsibility as well.
AI Program
CSE Program
DSA Program
- Zhuoyang Chen (PhD, started in 2022, co-advised by Prof. Weichuan Yu)
- Gongyao Jiang (PhD, started in 2024)
- Guanghua Li (PhD, started in 2022, co-advised by Prof. Wei Zhang)
- Yijie Lian (PhD, started in 2023, co-advised by Prof. Wei Zeng)
- Siya Qiu (PhD, main advisor Prof. Jing Tang)
- Xinran Shi (PhD, started in 2023)
- Ruoqi Wang (PhD, started in 2022, co-advised by Prof. Hao Chen)
- Tong Xu (PhD, started in 2021)
- Jiayi Zhu (PhD, started in 2023, co-advised by Prof. Hao Chen)
Graduates
Past Teaching
