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Yue M. Lu

Faculty
  • Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
Yue M. Lu

Contact Information

Office: Maxwell Dworkin 231
Email: yuelu [ AT ] seas [ DOT ] harvard [ DOT ] edu
Office Phone: 617-496-8615

Education

  1. B.E., Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
  2. M.S., Mathematics, and Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, both in 2007, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Research Interests

    • Applied Mathematics & Computational Science
    • Control Theory and Stochastic Systems
    • Modeling Physical/Biological Phenonema and Systems
    • Computer Science
    • Graphics, Visualization, and Imaging
    • Intelligent Systems and Computer Vision
    • Information, Systems & Networks
    • Electrical Engineering
    • Signal Processing
    • Robotics and Control
    • Materials & Devices
    • Quantum Devices

Primary Teaching Area

Electrical Engineering

Profile

Yue M. Lu received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, in 2007.

He was a Research Assistant at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, and was with Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China and Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, NJ. From September 2007 to Septem- ber 2010, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Audiovisual Communications Laboratory at Ecole Polytechnique Fe ́de ́rale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. He is currently an Assistant Professor of electrical engineering at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, directing the Signals, Information, and Networks Group (SING) at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. His research interests are in the general areas of signal processing, statistical inference and imaging.

He received the Most Innovative Paper Award of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) in 2006 for his paper (with Minh N. Do) on the construction of directional multiresolution image representations, and the Best Student Paper Award of IEEE ICIP in 2007. He also coauthored a paper (with IvanDokmani ́and MartinVetterli) that won the Best Student Paper Award of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing in 2011. 

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