Jamil Semaan

Jamil Semaan is a product marketing manager for accelerated data science at NVIDIA. He holds his MBA with concentrations in marketing and data science from the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University.
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Posts by Jamil Semaan

Data Science Aug 01, 2025

7 Drop-In Replacements to Instantly Speed Up Your Python Data Science Workflows

You've been there. You wrote the perfect Python script, tested it on a sample CSV, and everything worked flawlessly. But when you unleashed it on the full 10... 8 MIN READ
Data Science Jul 18, 2025

3 pandas Workflows That Slowed to a Crawl on Large Datasets—Until We Turned on GPUs

If you work with pandas, you’ve probably hit the wall. It’s that moment when your trusty workflow, so elegant on smaller datasets, grinds to a halt on a... 4 MIN READ
Data Science Jun 27, 2025

How to Work with Data Exceeding VRAM in the Polars GPU Engine

In high-stakes fields such as quant finance, algorithmic trading, and fraud detection, data practitioners frequently need to process hundreds of gigabytes (GB)... 4 MIN READ
Data Science Sep 17, 2024

Polars GPU Engine Powered by RAPIDS cuDF Now Available in Open Beta

Today, Polars released a new GPU engine powered by RAPIDS cuDF that accelerates Polars workflows up to 13x on NVIDIA GPUs, allowing data scientists to process... 4 MIN READ