Hang Lu received her B.S. from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and her M.S.C.E.P and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is currently the Associate Dean for Research and Innovation in the College of Engineering and C. J. "Pete" Silas Chair, School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Lu's research interests involve the interface of engineering and biology and her lab, the Lu Fluidics Group, is conducting research at these interface levels. The Lu Fluidics Group engineers BioMEMS (Bio Micro-Electro-Mechanical System) and microfluidic devices to address questions in neuroscience, cell biology, and biotechnology that are difficult to answer using conventional techniques.
Microfluidic systems for high-throughput screens and image-based genetics and genomicsSystems biology: large-scale experimentation and data miningMicrotechnologies for optical stimulation and optical recordingBig data, machine vision, automationDevelopmental neurobiology, behavioral neurobiology, systems neuroscienceCancer, immunology, embryonic development, stem cells