Prof. Lu has over 20 years of working experience both in academic research and in industrial applications on open systems design, standardization, and natural language processing. Her earlier work on codeset announcement has been widely adopted in modern operating systems and programming languages to handle different encodings for different language environments. She has successfully helped to make structured encoding of Chinese character components which lead to a much faster encoding process for Chinese characters. She spearheaded the standardization of the Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set, the first and only commonly adopted character set for Hong Kong. She is the Rapporteur of the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2/IRG.

Prof. Lu's research work is mostly focused on using natural language processing method on information extraction and text mining. She has conducted extensive work on Chinese collocation extraction, terminology extraction, and ontology construction. Her research has received over 2million funding from the CERG and over 10million funding from ITf. Her leadership has also lead to the completion of a Hong Kong Jockey Club funded project, ASAB98, using text-to-speech technology to assist the visually blind to access computers and the internet. Prof. Lu received her B.S. in E.E. from Beijing Normal University, M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.