News

Prof. Lu was awarded by National Natural Science Foundation of China—Young Scientist Fund Cat.C as PI. (01/2026)

Prof. Lu was awarded by the Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong—Early Career Scheme as PI. (01/2026)

Our paper “Self-supervised graph feature enhancement and scale attention for mechanical signal node-level representation and diagnosis” was recognized as Highly Cited Paper by Web of Science. (11/2025)

Prof. Lu served as the supervisor of HKUST Red Bird Racing Team and led to participate in 2025 Formula Student China at Hefei. (11/2025)

Prof. Lu was invited to give a talk at TERMIS-AP Conference, Wuhan, China. (10/2025)

Prof. Lu was invited to serve as a panel member on physics-informed machine learning at the ASME-IDETC CIE conference, California, USA. (08/2025)

Our paper “Inverse Heat Transfer Analysis for Locating Internal Sources with Arbitrary Geometries Using Physics-Based Compressive Sensin” received The ASME CIE 2025 Best Conference Paper Award”. (08/2025)

Prof. Lu served as Vice Chair of ASME-CIE Advanced Modeling and Simulation Division. (08/2025)

Prof. Lu served as Program Co-Chair of 7th Asia Conference on Machine Learning and Computing & 3rd Asia Conference on Advances in Image Processing, Hong Kong. (07/2025)

RPG student, Bin Dong, received the HKUST RedBird Academic Excellence Award. (07/2025)

Our project “Next Generation of 3D Bioprinting through A Multimodule Integrated Platform” received Merit Prize of the 11th Hong Kong University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition. (06/2025)

Our project “AI-Enabled Virtual Representation for 3D Bioprinting of Diseased Models: A Low-Cost, OpenSource Solution” received Outstanding Award of ASMPT Technology Award. (06/2025)

The Final Year Design Project Titled “AI-enabled Virtual Representation for 3D Bioprinting of Diseased Model” Received IMechE HK Branch Best Student Design Award. (05/2025)

Prof. Lu served as Guest Editor for a special issue on Generative AI for Design, Manufacturing Processes, and Materials Systems in the Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering. (04/2025)

Prof. Lu was awarded by Innovation and Technology Fund—Innovation and Technology Support Programme as PI. (03/2025)

Prof. Lu served as Guest Editor for a special issue on AI Enabled Surface Defect Inspection Methods in the Journal of Surface Topography: Metrology and Properties. (03/2025)

Prof. Lu received Outstanding Presentation Award at the 8th Conference on Digital Twin and Intelligent Manufacturing Services. (07/2024)

RPG student, Tong Zhu, received the HKUST RedBird Academic Excellence Award. (07/2024)

Our paper “A slicing and path generation method for 3D printing of periodic surface structure” was recognized as the finalist of student research presentation competition at the 52th SME North America Manufacturing Research Conference (NAMRC), Knoxville, Tennessee, USA. (06/2024)

New RPG student, Bin Dong, received the HKUST-BICI fellowship. (09/2023)

Prof. Lu and Prof. Bo Shen’s proposal, “Digital Twin for Bioprinting Process Monitoring and Control,” was recognized as the finalist in the NSF Manufacturing Blue Sky Competition. (06/2023)

Prof. Lu joined The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology as Assistant Professor. (07/2022)