Yu Lu received the Ph.D. degree in communication and information system from Shanghai University, China, in 2009. From 2013 to 2014, he was a research scholar with Tongji University, and also a visiting professor and guest researcher with Oregon State University from 2014 to 2015 and from 2019 to 2020 respectively. He is an associate professor with Hangzhou Dianzi University currently. He has contributed dozens of academic articles and patents in the felds of image processing and video compression. He was a recipient of Excellent Thesis Awards from the International Conference on Electrical and Electronics Engineering in 2012.