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Distinguished Professor Jie Lu is Associate Dean (Research Excellence) in the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), where she also serves as Director of the Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute (AAII). With over two decades of academic service at UTS, she has held progressively senior roles including Professor since 2007, Head of School of Software (2011-2014), and Director of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence (2017-2020) before assuming her current leadership positions.
Professor Lu earned her PhD from Curtin University in 2000 and joined UTS the same year. Her academic journey progressed from Lecturer (2000-2001) to Senior Lecturer (2002-2004), Associate Professor (2005-2007), and ultimately Professor (2017-present).
Professor Lu's research spans computational intelligence with particular expertise in decision support systems, fuzzy transfer learning, concept drift, and recommender systems. Her work bridges theoretical innovation with practical applications across transportation, telecommunications, healthcare, and education sectors. She has pioneered approaches in data-driven decision making that deliver tangible economic benefits and risk management solutions for industry partners.
Her recent publications demonstrate continued leadership in AI research, with a focus on addressing challenges in non-stationary environments, out-of-distribution detection, cross-domain recommendation, and healthcare applications. Her work increasingly integrates large language models with specialized domain knowledge for enhanced decision support.
- Officer of the Order of Australia (2022)
- 2023 NSW Premier's Prize for Excellence in Engineering or Information & Communication Technology
- Australian Laureate Fellow (2019)
- IEEE Fellow for contributions to fuzzy machine learning and decision making (2018)
- Fellow of International Fuzzy Systems Association (2017)
- Australia's Most Innovative Engineer Award (2019)
- Multiple IEEE Transactions Outstanding Paper awards
Professor Lu has supervised over 50 PhD students to completion, with half pursuing academic careers and half working in industry. She has secured over A$10 million in research funding as lead Chief Investigator, including 10 highly competitive ARC Discovery Projects. Her industry collaborations include significant projects with Optus, Sydney Trains, Domain Holdings, and healthcare organizations.
As Director of the Australian AI Institute, Professor Lu leads Australia's largest AI research hub with over 250 researchers and PhD students. Under her leadership, AAII has secured 47 ARC grants and over 110 industry projects since 2017. She also serves as Editor-in-Chief of Knowledge-Based Systems, a leading journal in the field.
