Dr. Lu is a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI) and the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics (IAHSI). Dr. Lu currently serves on the US federal AI R&D inter-agency committee and NIH/IRP AI task force. Over the years, Dr. Lu has mentored over 70 trainees and is a highly cited author with over 350 peer-review articles in leading scientific journals such as Nature, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Genetics, PLoS Biology, etc. According to Google Scholar, he has an h-index of 75 with over 35,000 citations. His many recent publications and invited talks generally have a focus on the following topics:

Biomedial Literature Search (e.g. PubMed Best Match, LitCovid)
AI & LLMs (e.g. GeneGPT, TrialGPT)
NLP & Text Mining (e.g. PubTator, BioCreative, LitVar)
Medical image processing (e.g. NIH Chest X-ray Dataset, DeepSeeNet)