Summary
Frank Lu is a software engineer and upcoming Master's student in Computer Science at UIUC with a decade-plus of hands-on experience across firmware, systems, and application development. He has interned at high-impact organizations including SpaceX and Tencent and contributed to research in AI for materials, showing a blend of aerospace, industrial, and academic problem-solving. Frank has led autonomous sensing for an EV team and shipped firmware and software at stealth startups and established engineering firms, evidencing comfort with both low-level systems and higher-level software stacks. Based in California, he pairs classroom rigor with rapid on-the-job learning and a track record of stepping into new domains—game development teaching and program leadership among them. Not obviously apparent from titles alone, he moves fluidly between research, product engineering, and hands-on implementation, making him effective at turning novel ideas into working prototypes.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Monta Vista High School
Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering
English, Chinese, Spanish