From November 1984 to September 1988, he was with University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. In December 1991, he joined the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), where he is currently a full Professor in the Communication Engineering Division. He was a Visiting Scientist at University of California - Los Angeles (UCLA) from October 1998 to June 1999.

His research interests include radar, antennas, array based signal processing, microwave techniques, computational electromagnetics, and evolutionary computation for optimization of complex problems. Dr Lu has authored/co-authored about 300 journal and conference papers in his research areas.

Dr. Lu is the leader of Radar Research Program in Temasek Labotories@NTU; the coordinator of the Microwave Circuits, Antennas and Propagation research group. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and a member of Editorial Board for the research journal IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation.