Summary
Cheng-You Lu is a PhD candidate in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Technology Sydney with nine years of research and engineering experience spanning computer vision, deep learning, and high-performance imaging. He has contributed to high-profile projects in immersive neural fields and omnidirectional 3D shape representation, with work highlighted at IEEE CVPR and authored preprints on neural distance fields. Cheng-You combines academic rigor from Brown University and National Chiao Tung University with industry experience, including a perception research internship at TuSimple and applied defect-inspection research for semiconductor partners. He has a track record of improving model performance in domain adaptation and super-resolution tasks, often contributing equal-author work on collaborative publications. Based in Sydney, he blends hands-on model development with systems-level thinking, able to move ideas from prototype to publishable results. An under-the-radar strength is his history of co-first-author contributions, signaling both technical depth and strong collaborative instincts.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer science, Bachelor's degree Computer science at National Chiao Tung University
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Brown University
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Artificial Intelligence at University of Technology Sydney
Exchange student Computer science, Exchange student Computer science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
English, Chinese