Jiaheng Lu
Professor at University of Helsinki
Finland
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Top SchoolJiaheng Lu is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Helsinki and leader of the Unified Database Management Systems (UDBMS) research group, with a research career focused on scalable big data management and multi-model databases. He earned his Ph.D. from the National University of Singapore, did postdoctoral work at UC Irvine, and held a professorship at Renmin University of China before joining Helsinki in 2015. His expertise spans category-theory-driven multi-model databases, semantic string processing, and query optimization for big data platforms, and his group is now exploring quantum computing approaches to database optimization. With over 135 publications in top venues (ACM Computing Surveys, VLDB Journal, TKDE) and several books—including a bestselling Hadoop book in China—he combines deep theory with systems-building. He is a frequent program committee member for SIGMOD, VLDB, and ICDE, evidencing strong community leadership. An understated strength is his ability to translate abstract categorical ideas into practical database optimizations that impact large-scale data systems.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at 上海交通大学National University of Singapore
Github Skills (1)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jiahenglu/taxonomy
Jun 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
jiahenglu/GrobnerBasis
May 2020 - May 2020
Contributions:4 pushes, 2 branches in 7 days
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