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Biography

Dr Junda Lu is an Associate Lecturer with the School of Computer, Data and Mathematical Sciences, Western Sydney University (WSU), and a member of WSU Artificial Intelligence Research Group (AIRG). He joined WSU from 2025.

He has previously worked at Macquarie University, Victoria University (Sydney), CSIRO, and Amazon. His research expertise includes Generative AI, Adversarial Machine Learning, and Security. 

He received his PhD degree in 2022 from the School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia. He obtained two Master's Degrees from University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland and Beijing University of Technology (BJUT), China.

Dr Lu brings a wealth of experience in research, teaching, and industry. 

  • As a lecturer, he received the Teaching Excellence Award from Victoria University Sydney.
  • As a researcher, he received the Best Paper Award from ACM ICMR.
  • As a student, he received First Class Honor, Excellent Postgraduate Student and First Price in Computer Games Tournament.

 

He currently working on Generative AI, sepecially on Image Inpainting directions. He is looking for HDR students who are intersted in Generative AI and Adversarial Machine Learning. Dr Junda Lu is excited to deliver his knowledge within research and industry to his students. If you are interested, please feel free to contact via [email protected].

 

 

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Qualifications

Doctor of Philosophy, University of New South Wales

Research keywords

  • Generative AI
  • Adversarial Machine Learning
  • Image Retrieval
  • Security