Dr. Cewu Lu is a Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) and an Adjunct Professor of Shanghai Institute for Advanced Study of Zhejiang University (SIAS).

Before he joined SJTU, he was a research fellow at Stanford University working in the group of Prof. Fei-Fei Li and Prof. Leonidas J. Guibas. He was a Research Assistant Professor at Hong Kong University of Science andTechnology with Prof. Chi Keung Tang . He got his PhD degree from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, supervised by Prof. Jiaya Jia. He is one of core technique member in Stanford-Toyota autonomous carproject. Some of his proposed algorithms have been used as a basic tool function in OpenCV(such as decolor.cpp).

He won Best Paper Award at the Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering (NPAR) 2012 and authored the most cited paper among all papers in SIGGRAPH recent 5 years. He serves as an Associate Editor for Gate to Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and reviewer for TPAMI and IJCV.

His research interests fall mainly in computer vision, deep learning, deep reinforcement learning and robotics vision.