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General Information

Full Name Junlan Lu
Languages English, Chinese (Mandarin)

Education

  • 2019-now
    Ph.D. in Medical Physics
    Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, US
    • 3.93/4.0 GPA
    • Hyperpolarized 129Xe MRI of the lung.
  • 2016-2019
    B.S. in Engineering Physics
    Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US
    • 3.86/4.3 GPA
    • Honors Thesis titled Cancerous Tissue Differentiation Using Metasurface-enhanced Infrared Spectroscopy

Experience

  • 2023
    Research Scientist
    Meta, Sunnyvale, California, US
    • Ads ranking.
  • 2023
    Research Intern
    Google, Mountain View, California, US
    • Conditional diffusion models for image enhancement.
    • Advised by Sakar Khattar, Cristina Vasconcelos, and Cengiz Oztireli
  • 2021
    Computer Vision Research Intern
    Kitware, Inc., Clifton Park, New York, US
    • Deep learning image super-resolution.
    • Advised by Florence Yellin and Scott McCloskey
  • 2018
    SURF Research Intern
    California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, US
    • 2D materials characterization.
    • Advised by Zakaria Al Balushi and Harry Atwater.
  • 2017
    REU Intern
    Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, US
    • Materials characterization.
    • Advised by Abraham Asfaw and Stephen Lyon.
  • 2015
    Intern
    Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey, US
    • Advised by Charles Gentile.
  • 2015
    Partners in Science Intern
    Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, US
    • Microfluidics.
    • Advised by Jason Puchalla.

Honors and Awards

  • 2019
    • NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Test Scores

  • SAT
    • 2360/2400 (800 M, 760 CR, 800 W)
  • GRE
    • (170/170 M, 161/170 V)
  • Phys. GRE
    • 920/990

Other Interests

  • Hobbies: Pokemon card collecting, basketball