Biography
Qiong Luo is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). She also holds a joint appointment as a Professor of Data Science and Analytics (DSA) at the HKUST (Guangzhou) campus. 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 CSE Faculty Profile
Research
The Rapids Group at HKUST,
Research Graduates,
and our GitHub page.
Current Projects:
Past projects:
Publication Records @ DBLP,
Google Scholar
Professional Services
Current program committees:
AAAI 2027 (Area Chair),
SIGMOD 2027
Associate Editor:
Distributed and Parallel Databases, Springer (2013 - present)
The VLDB Journal, Springer (2021 - present)
Teaching & Advising
Spring 2027 (upcoming): Parallel Programming (COMP5112)
Current graduate students:
Note: I adhere to HKUST's guidelines for research graduate thesis supervision
and expect my students to fulfill their responsibilities in pursuing their degrees.
CSE Program
DSA Program
- Jiyang Liu (PhD, started in 2025, primary advisor Prof. Guoming Tang)
- Yuanbang Liu (PhD, started in 2025, primary advisor Prof. Wei Zeng)
- Gongyao Jiang (PhD, started in 2024, co-advised by Prof. Xiaojuan Ma)
- Guanghua Li (PhD, started in 2022, co-advised by Prof. Wei Zhang)
- Yijie Lian (PhD, started in 2023, co-advised by Prof. Wei Zeng)
- Jingyi Pan (PhD, started in 2024, co-advised by Prof. Xiaowen Chu)
- Xinran Shi (PhD, started in 2023, co-advised by Prof. Prof. Xuming Hu)
- Tong Xu (PhD, started in 2021, co-advised by Prof. Xiaowen Chu)
- Jiayi Zhu (PhD, started in 2023, co-advised by Prof. Hao Chen)
