diff --git a/native/Cargo.lock b/native/Cargo.lock
index c0f22fa1a..9bf8247d0 100644
--- a/native/Cargo.lock
+++ b/native/Cargo.lock
@@ -867,6 +867,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "criterion",
  "datafusion",
  "datafusion-comet-spark-expr",
+ "datafusion-comet-utils",
  "datafusion-common",
  "datafusion-expr",
  "datafusion-physical-expr",
@@ -909,8 +910,17 @@ dependencies = [
  "arrow",
  "arrow-schema",
  "datafusion",
+ "datafusion-comet-utils",
  "datafusion-common",
  "datafusion-functions",
+ "datafusion-physical-expr",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "datafusion-comet-utils"
+version = "0.1.0"
+dependencies = [
+ "datafusion-physical-plan",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
diff --git a/native/Cargo.toml b/native/Cargo.toml
index 13860fbdf..53afed85a 100644
--- a/native/Cargo.toml
+++ b/native/Cargo.toml
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 # under the License.
 
 [workspace]
-members = ["core", "spark-expr"]
+members = ["core", "spark-expr", "utils"]
 resolver = "2"
 
 [workspace.package]
@@ -43,8 +43,11 @@ datafusion-common = { git = "https://github.com/apache/datafusion.git", rev = "4
 datafusion = { default-features = false, git = "https://github.com/apache/datafusion.git", rev = "40.0.0-rc1", features = ["unicode_expressions", "crypto_expressions"] }
 datafusion-functions = { git = "https://github.com/apache/datafusion.git", rev = "40.0.0-rc1", features = ["crypto_expressions"] }
 datafusion-expr = { git = "https://github.com/apache/datafusion.git", rev = "40.0.0-rc1", default-features = false }
+datafusion-physical-plan = { git = "https://github.com/apache/datafusion.git", rev = "40.0.0-rc1", default-features = false }
 datafusion-physical-expr-common = { git = "https://github.com/apache/datafusion.git", rev = "40.0.0-rc1", default-features = false }
 datafusion-physical-expr = { git = "https://github.com/apache/datafusion.git", rev = "40.0.0-rc1", default-features = false }
+datafusion-comet-spark-expr = { path = "spark-expr", version = "0.1.0" }
+datafusion-comet-utils = { path = "utils", version = "0.1.0" }
 
 [profile.release]
 debug = true
diff --git a/native/core/Cargo.toml b/native/core/Cargo.toml
index 6432118d6..be135d4e9 100644
--- a/native/core/Cargo.toml
+++ b/native/core/Cargo.toml
@@ -77,7 +77,8 @@ once_cell = "1.18.0"
 regex = "1.9.6"
 crc32fast = "1.3.2"
 simd-adler32 = "0.3.7"
-datafusion-comet-spark-expr = { path = "../spark-expr", version = "0.1.0" }
+datafusion-comet-spark-expr = { workspace = true }
+datafusion-comet-utils = { workspace = true }
 
 [build-dependencies]
 prost-build = "0.9.0"
diff --git a/native/core/src/execution/datafusion/expressions/mod.rs b/native/core/src/execution/datafusion/expressions/mod.rs
index 98b422dce..d573c2377 100644
--- a/native/core/src/execution/datafusion/expressions/mod.rs
+++ b/native/core/src/execution/datafusion/expressions/mod.rs
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@
 pub mod bitwise_not;
 pub mod cast;
 pub mod checkoverflow;
-pub mod if_expr;
 mod normalize_nan;
 pub mod scalar_funcs;
 pub use normalize_nan::NormalizeNaNAndZero;
diff --git a/native/core/src/execution/datafusion/expressions/utils.rs b/native/core/src/execution/datafusion/expressions/utils.rs
index ee8646a78..6a7ec2e12 100644
--- a/native/core/src/execution/datafusion/expressions/utils.rs
+++ b/native/core/src/execution/datafusion/expressions/utils.rs
@@ -30,24 +30,10 @@ use arrow_array::{cast::AsArray, types::ArrowPrimitiveType};
 use arrow_schema::DataType;
 use chrono::{DateTime, Offset, TimeZone};
 use datafusion_common::cast::as_generic_string_array;
-use datafusion_physical_expr::PhysicalExpr;
 use num::integer::div_floor;
-use std::{any::Any, sync::Arc};
+use std::sync::Arc;
 
-/// An utility function from DataFusion. It is not exposed by DataFusion.
-pub fn down_cast_any_ref(any: &dyn Any) -> &dyn Any {
-    if any.is::<Arc<dyn PhysicalExpr>>() {
-        any.downcast_ref::<Arc<dyn PhysicalExpr>>()
-            .unwrap()
-            .as_any()
-    } else if any.is::<Box<dyn PhysicalExpr>>() {
-        any.downcast_ref::<Box<dyn PhysicalExpr>>()
-            .unwrap()
-            .as_any()
-    } else {
-        any
-    }
-}
+pub use datafusion_comet_utils::down_cast_any_ref;
 
 /// Preprocesses input arrays to add timezone information from Spark to Arrow array datatype or
 /// to apply timezone offset.
diff --git a/native/core/src/execution/datafusion/planner.rs b/native/core/src/execution/datafusion/planner.rs
index ee208ac74..23960c307 100644
--- a/native/core/src/execution/datafusion/planner.rs
+++ b/native/core/src/execution/datafusion/planner.rs
@@ -79,7 +79,6 @@ use crate::{
                 checkoverflow::CheckOverflow,
                 correlation::Correlation,
                 covariance::Covariance,
-                if_expr::IfExpr,
                 negative,
                 scalar_funcs::create_comet_physical_fun,
                 stats::StatsType,
@@ -108,7 +107,7 @@ use crate::{
 };
 
 use super::expressions::{create_named_struct::CreateNamedStruct, EvalMode};
-use datafusion_comet_spark_expr::abs::Abs;
+use datafusion_comet_spark_expr::{Abs, IfExpr};
 
 // For clippy error on type_complexity.
 type ExecResult<T> = Result<T, ExecutionError>;
diff --git a/native/spark-expr/Cargo.toml b/native/spark-expr/Cargo.toml
index d10d04944..8bf76dff6 100644
--- a/native/spark-expr/Cargo.toml
+++ b/native/spark-expr/Cargo.toml
@@ -32,6 +32,8 @@ arrow-schema = { workspace = true }
 datafusion = { workspace = true }
 datafusion-common = { workspace = true }
 datafusion-functions = { workspace = true }
+datafusion-physical-expr = { workspace = true }
+datafusion-comet-utils = { workspace = true }
 
 [lib]
 name = "datafusion_comet_spark_expr"
diff --git a/native/core/src/execution/datafusion/expressions/if_expr.rs b/native/spark-expr/src/if_expr.rs
similarity index 95%
rename from native/core/src/execution/datafusion/expressions/if_expr.rs
rename to native/spark-expr/src/if_expr.rs
index fa235cc66..c04494ec4 100644
--- a/native/core/src/execution/datafusion/expressions/if_expr.rs
+++ b/native/spark-expr/src/if_expr.rs
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ use datafusion::logical_expr::ColumnarValue;
 use datafusion_common::{cast::as_boolean_array, Result};
 use datafusion_physical_expr::PhysicalExpr;
 
-use crate::execution::datafusion::expressions::utils::down_cast_any_ref;
+use datafusion_comet_utils::down_cast_any_ref;
 
 #[derive(Debug, Hash)]
 pub struct IfExpr {
@@ -147,15 +147,6 @@ impl PartialEq<dyn Any> for IfExpr {
     }
 }
 
-/// Create an If expression
-pub fn if_fn(
-    if_expr: Arc<dyn PhysicalExpr>,
-    true_expr: Arc<dyn PhysicalExpr>,
-    false_expr: Arc<dyn PhysicalExpr>,
-) -> Result<Arc<dyn PhysicalExpr>> {
-    Ok(Arc::new(IfExpr::new(if_expr, true_expr, false_expr)))
-}
-
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
     use arrow::{array::StringArray, datatypes::*};
@@ -165,6 +156,15 @@ mod tests {
 
     use super::*;
 
+    /// Create an If expression
+    fn if_fn(
+        if_expr: Arc<dyn PhysicalExpr>,
+        true_expr: Arc<dyn PhysicalExpr>,
+        false_expr: Arc<dyn PhysicalExpr>,
+    ) -> Result<Arc<dyn PhysicalExpr>> {
+        Ok(Arc::new(IfExpr::new(if_expr, true_expr, false_expr)))
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn test_if_1() -> Result<()> {
         let schema = Schema::new(vec![Field::new("a", DataType::Utf8, true)]);
diff --git a/native/spark-expr/src/lib.rs b/native/spark-expr/src/lib.rs
index 3873754be..c36e8855e 100644
--- a/native/spark-expr/src/lib.rs
+++ b/native/spark-expr/src/lib.rs
@@ -18,7 +18,11 @@
 use std::error::Error;
 use std::fmt::{Display, Formatter};
 
-pub mod abs;
+mod abs;
+mod if_expr;
+
+pub use abs::Abs;
+pub use if_expr::IfExpr;
 
 /// Spark supports three evaluation modes when evaluating expressions, which affect
 /// the behavior when processing input values that are invalid or would result in an
diff --git a/native/utils/Cargo.toml b/native/utils/Cargo.toml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..05ddd3488
--- /dev/null
+++ b/native/utils/Cargo.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+# specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+
+[package]
+name = "datafusion-comet-utils"
+description = "DataFusion Comet Utilities"
+version = { workspace = true }
+homepage = { workspace = true }
+repository = { workspace = true }
+authors = { workspace = true }
+readme = { workspace = true }
+license = { workspace = true }
+edition = { workspace = true }
+
+[dependencies]
+datafusion-physical-plan = { workspace = true }
+
+[lib]
+name = "datafusion_comet_utils"
+path = "src/lib.rs"
diff --git a/native/utils/README.md b/native/utils/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..513c6245e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/native/utils/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<!--
+Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+distributed with this work for additional information
+regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+"License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+"AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+specific language governing permissions and limitations
+under the License.
+-->
+
+# datafusion-comet-utils
+
+This crate provides utilities for use in the [Apache DataFusion Comet](https://github.com/apache/datafusion-comet/) project.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/native/utils/src/lib.rs b/native/utils/src/lib.rs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..54ff55b46
--- /dev/null
+++ b/native/utils/src/lib.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+// Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+// or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+// distributed with this work for additional information
+// regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+// to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+// "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+// with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+// software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+// "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+// KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+// specific language governing permissions and limitations
+// under the License.
+
+use std::any::Any;
+use std::sync::Arc;
+
+use datafusion_physical_plan::PhysicalExpr;
+
+/// A utility function from DataFusion. It is not exposed by DataFusion.
+pub fn down_cast_any_ref(any: &dyn Any) -> &dyn Any {
+    if any.is::<Arc<dyn PhysicalExpr>>() {
+        any.downcast_ref::<Arc<dyn PhysicalExpr>>()
+            .unwrap()
+            .as_any()
+    } else if any.is::<Box<dyn PhysicalExpr>>() {
+        any.downcast_ref::<Box<dyn PhysicalExpr>>()
+            .unwrap()
+            .as_any()
+    } else {
+        any
+    }
+}