Xiangyao Yu

Xiangyao Yu is an assistant professor of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, specializing in database systems. His research primarily focuses on GPU-accelerated databases, cloud-native databases, and high-performance SQL analytics and transaction processing. Before joining UW-Madison, he finished postdoc and PhD at MIT. Xiangyao is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, the Sloan Research Fellowship, and the VLDB Early Career Research Contribution Award.
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Data Science Dec 15, 2025

NVIDIA CUDA-X Powers the New Sirius GPU Engine for DuckDB, Setting ClickBench Records

Sirius, an open-source GPU native SQL engine, achieved a new performance record on Clickbench—a widely used analytics benchmark. Developed by University of... 7 MIN READ