Songtao Lu is an assistant professor in the Department of Information Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He completed a PhD in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University in 2018 and was a postdoctoral associate in the same department at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities from 2018 to 2019. He then joined the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights as a senior research scientist in the Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science Department, while also serving as a principal investigator affiliated with the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab in Cambridge.
Lu's path runs from a university postdoc to an IBM research centre and the joint MIT-IBM AI lab; such industrial research posts typically demand both theoretical depth and large-scale system implementation.
Achievements
- 2018 · Completed a PhD at Iowa State University.
- 2019 · Joined the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center as a senior research scientist.