Jie Lu#
| Membership Number: | 6330 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | AUSTRALIA |
| Homepage(s): | https://profiles.uts.edu.au/Jie.Lu |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-0690-4732 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2020,08 - present Director, Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute (AAII), University of Technology Sydney (UTS)
- 2020,01 - present Australian Laureate Fellow, UTS
- 2017,02 - present Distinguished Professor, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology (FEIT), UTS
- 2014,02 - present Associate Dean (Research & Development: 2014–16; Research Excellence: 2017–), FEIT, UTS
- 2017,02 - 2020,08 Director, Centre for Artificial Intelligence (CAI), UTS
- 2011,01 - 2014,01 Head of School of Software, FEIT, UTS
- 2007,12 - 2017,02 Professor, Faculty of Information Technology (FIT), UTS
- 2005,01 - 2007,12 Associate Professor, FIT, UTS
- 2002,01 - 2004,12 Senior Lecturer, FIT, UTS
- 2000,12 - 2001,12 Lecturer, FIT, UTS
Fields of Scholarship
- Decision support systems
- Computational intelligence
- Recommender systems
- Machine learning
Honours and Awards
- Sept 2019 Australian Laureate Fellow (elected for the highest-quality world-class researchers by the Australian Research Council (ARC); 17 are awarded annually, covering all fields
- Sept 2019 UTS Chancellor’s Awards for Research Excellence, in recognition of outstanding research contributions; one is awarded annually
- July 2019 Australia’s Most Innovative Engineer Award, an annual program run by Engineers Australia, in recognition of creative and innovative solutions to some of the world’s biggest challenges
- Jan 2018 IEEE Fellow for contributions to fuzzy machine learning and decision making; elected by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society for extraordinary accomplishments in an IEEE field of interest
- June 2017 Fellow of International Fuzzy Systems Association for outstanding contributions to fuzzy system field (elected by IFSA Fellow Committee)
- July 2018 One of two finalists for the prestigious Australian Eureka Prize for Advanced Data Science
- July 2017 One of three finalists for the Australian Eureka Prize for Advanced Data Science
- Aug 2012 FLINS Gold Pin Award (the first FLINS Gold Pin Award was given to the father of fuzzy logic, Prof. L. Zadeh)
- July 2011 Mercator Professor, German Research Foundation, Germany
- Oct 2010 Inaugural UTS Vice-Chancellor’s Research Medal for Excellence in Teaching and Research
