diff --git a/backends-velox/src/test/scala/org/apache/gluten/execution/MiscOperatorSuite.scala b/backends-velox/src/test/scala/org/apache/gluten/execution/MiscOperatorSuite.scala
index 42e3e0bcc77a..107d096e7851 100644
--- a/backends-velox/src/test/scala/org/apache/gluten/execution/MiscOperatorSuite.scala
+++ b/backends-velox/src/test/scala/org/apache/gluten/execution/MiscOperatorSuite.scala
@@ -1985,4 +1985,10 @@ class MiscOperatorSuite extends VeloxWholeStageTransformerSuite with AdaptiveSpa
       }
     }
   }
+
+  test("support null type in aggregate") {
+    runQueryAndCompare("SELECT max(null), min(null) from range(10)".stripMargin) {
+      checkGlutenOperatorMatch[HashAggregateExecTransformer]
+    }
+  }
 }
diff --git a/cpp/velox/substrait/VeloxSubstraitSignature.cc b/cpp/velox/substrait/VeloxSubstraitSignature.cc
index e1f716ae2088..a68870f653ab 100644
--- a/cpp/velox/substrait/VeloxSubstraitSignature.cc
+++ b/cpp/velox/substrait/VeloxSubstraitSignature.cc
@@ -159,6 +159,10 @@ TypePtr VeloxSubstraitSignature::fromSubstraitSignature(const std::string& signa
     return DATE();
   }
 
+  if (signature == "nothing") {
+    return UNKNOWN();
+  }
+
   auto startWith = [](const std::string& str, const std::string& prefix) {
     return str.size() >= prefix.size() && str.substr(0, prefix.size()) == prefix;
   };