Prof. Lu was the Professor in Orthopaedic Bioengineering at The University of Hong Kong. He obtained his Ph.D. degree and the “Distinguished Graduate Award” from the University of Waterloo, Canada, in 1994. He joined the Department of Orthopaedics & Traumatology at The University of Hong Kong in 1995 as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2001 and full Professor in 2009. He established the Orthopaedic Research Centre in 1995 and served as its director until 2022.

Prof. Lu has specific experience in the areas of Orthopaedic Biomechanics, Biomaterials, 3-D Bioprinting technology, as well as Clinical AI-related research. He has achieved substantial international recognition in the field of bioengineering and was widely acknowledged as being among the top 1% of scholars (2009–2018) according to ISI’s Essential Science Indicators.

Prof. Lu has consistently secured a significant proportion of research funding in Hong Kong. He holds a number of patents for his innovations and has published more than 400 papers in international peer-reviewed journals, accumulating over 18,000 citations with an H-index of 73. Prof. Lu has co-founded three spinoff companies with his Ph.D. students and has supervised more than 50 Ph.D. students.