diff --git a/spark/src/main/scala/org/apache/comet/serde/QueryPlanSerde.scala b/spark/src/main/scala/org/apache/comet/serde/QueryPlanSerde.scala
index d4c3be1877..84ffd11daa 100644
--- a/spark/src/main/scala/org/apache/comet/serde/QueryPlanSerde.scala
+++ b/spark/src/main/scala/org/apache/comet/serde/QueryPlanSerde.scala
@@ -192,7 +192,8 @@ object QueryPlanSerde extends Logging with CometExprShim {
     classOf[Log2] -> CometLog2,
     classOf[Pow] -> CometScalarFunction[Pow]("pow"),
     classOf[If] -> CometIf,
-    classOf[CaseWhen] -> CometCaseWhen)
+    classOf[CaseWhen] -> CometCaseWhen,
+    classOf[Coalesce] -> CometCoalesce)
 
   /**
    * Mapping of Spark aggregate expression class to Comet expression handler.
@@ -999,10 +1000,6 @@ object QueryPlanSerde extends Logging with CometExprShim {
           None
         }
 
-      case a @ Coalesce(_) =>
-        val exprChildren = a.children.map(exprToProtoInternal(_, inputs, binding))
-        scalarFunctionExprToProto("coalesce", exprChildren: _*)
-
       // With Spark 3.4, CharVarcharCodegenUtils.readSidePadding gets called to pad spaces for
       // char types.
       // See https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/38151
diff --git a/spark/src/main/scala/org/apache/comet/serde/conditional.scala b/spark/src/main/scala/org/apache/comet/serde/conditional.scala
index db86afc4cb..e4f76c101e 100644
--- a/spark/src/main/scala/org/apache/comet/serde/conditional.scala
+++ b/spark/src/main/scala/org/apache/comet/serde/conditional.scala
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ package org.apache.comet.serde
 
 import scala.collection.JavaConverters._
 
-import org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.expressions.{Attribute, CaseWhen, Expression, If}
+import org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.expressions.{Attribute, CaseWhen, Coalesce, Expression, If, IsNotNull}
 
 import org.apache.comet.CometSparkSessionExtensions.withInfo
 import org.apache.comet.serde.QueryPlanSerde.exprToProtoInternal
@@ -91,3 +91,42 @@ object CometCaseWhen extends CometExpressionSerde[CaseWhen] {
     }
   }
 }
+
+object CometCoalesce extends CometExpressionSerde[Coalesce] {
+  override def convert(
+      expr: Coalesce,
+      inputs: Seq[Attribute],
+      binding: Boolean): Option[ExprOuterClass.Expr] = {
+    val branches = expr.children.dropRight(1).map { child =>
+      (IsNotNull(child), child)
+    }
+    val elseValue = expr.children.last
+    val whenSeq = branches.map(elements => {
+      exprToProtoInternal(elements._1, inputs, binding)
+    })
+    val thenSeq = branches.map(elements => {
+      exprToProtoInternal(elements._2, inputs, binding)
+    })
+    assert(whenSeq.length == thenSeq.length)
+    if (whenSeq.forall(_.isDefined) && thenSeq.forall(_.isDefined)) {
+      val builder = ExprOuterClass.CaseWhen.newBuilder()
+      builder.addAllWhen(whenSeq.map(_.get).asJava)
+      builder.addAllThen(thenSeq.map(_.get).asJava)
+      val elseValueExpr = exprToProtoInternal(elseValue, inputs, binding)
+      if (elseValueExpr.isDefined) {
+        builder.setElseExpr(elseValueExpr.get)
+      } else {
+        withInfo(expr, elseValue)
+        return None
+      }
+      Some(
+        ExprOuterClass.Expr
+          .newBuilder()
+          .setCaseWhen(builder)
+          .build())
+    } else {
+      withInfo(expr, branches.map(_._2): _*)
+      None
+    }
+  }
+}
diff --git a/spark/src/test/scala/org/apache/comet/CometExpressionSuite.scala b/spark/src/test/scala/org/apache/comet/CometExpressionSuite.scala
index bf1733b3ff..51bc709078 100644
--- a/spark/src/test/scala/org/apache/comet/CometExpressionSuite.scala
+++ b/spark/src/test/scala/org/apache/comet/CometExpressionSuite.scala
@@ -394,6 +394,20 @@ class CometExpressionSuite extends CometTestBase with AdaptiveSparkPlanHelper {
     }
   }
 
+  test("test coalesce lazy eval") {
+    withSQLConf(
+      SQLConf.ANSI_ENABLED.key -> "true",
+      CometConf.COMET_EXPR_ALLOW_INCOMPATIBLE.key -> "true") {
+      val data = Seq((9999999999999L, 0))
+      withParquetTable(data, "t1") {
+        val res = spark.sql("""
+            |SELECT coalesce(_1, CAST(_1 AS TINYINT)) from t1;
+            |  """.stripMargin)
+        checkSparkAnswerAndOperator(res)
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
   test("dictionary arithmetic") {
     // TODO: test ANSI mode
     withSQLConf(SQLConf.ANSI_ENABLED.key -> "false", "parquet.enable.dictionary" -> "true") {