Born in 1942.10 in China, Wu-Sheng Lu lives a life with a twisted career path. Lu received his pre-college education in Suzhou. He entered Fudan University, Shanghai, in 1959 to study mathematics and graduated in 1964. After that till 1978, he taught at the Shanghai Second Polytechnic University. Lu started his graduate education at the East China Normal University in late 1970s and continued at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, where he received his 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 until his retirement in 2022.7 when he became Professor Emeritus.
Lu's research includes 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. He holds a membership of the IEEE since 1981 that was elevated to Fellow in 1999 and Life Fellow in 2012.
