Born in 1942.10 and raised in China, Wu-Sheng Lu (陸吾生) received his pre-college education in Suzhou (蘇州) and entered Fudan (復旦) University in 1959, where he completed a five-year undergraduate program in mathematics and graduated in 1964. He then taught at the Shanghai Second Polytechnic University and left in 1978 to pursue graduate studies -- first at the East China Normal University focusing on control theory, then at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, where Lu received his Master of Science degree in electrical engineering in 1983 and Ph.D. degree in control science in 1984.
Lu was a post-doctoral fellow in 1985 at the University of Victoria, Canada, and taught as visiting assistant professor at University of Minnesota from 1986.1 to 1987.4. He joined University of Victoria in 1987.5 as associate professor and has since 1991.7 been Professor of Electrical Engineering till his retirement in 2022.7.
Lu's research interests include digital filters and machine intelligence, where convex optimization is applied as primary utility. Among other things, he is the co-author with A. Antoniou of Two-Dimensional Digital Filters (Marcel Dekker, 1992) and Practical Optimization: Algorithms and Engineering Applications (Springer, 1st edition 2007, 2nd edition 2021), with T. Hinamoto of Digital Filter Design and Realization (River Publishers, 2017), and with E. K. P. Chong and S. H. Żak of An Introduction to Optimization with Applications to Machine Learning (Wiley, 5th edition, 2023).
Lu served as editor for Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering and associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, International Journal of Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing, and Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing.
Lu received several awards for his teaching and research, and holds a membership of the IEEE since 1981, which was elevated to Fellow in 1999 and Life Fellow in 2012.
