PhD student in ECE at Carnegie Mellon University, advised by Prof. Anthony Rowe (since August 2022).

Also did my undergrad in ECE at Carnegie Mellon University (graduated May 2022).

I am fortunate enough to be supported by the NSF GRFP.

Email: elu2@cmu.edu
Github: EdwardLu2018

Research

My research interests lie in creating next-generation computer systems that support augmented, virtual, and mixed reality (combined to be called eXtended Reality, or XR) devices.

Publications

• RenderFusion: Balancing Local and Remote Rendering for Interactive 3D Scenes (video, talk)
  Edward Lu, Sagar Bharadwaj, Mallesham Dasari, Connor Smith, Srinivasan Seshan, Anthony Rowe
  IEEE ISMAR 2023 (IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality)
• Scaling VR Video Conferencing (teaser)
  Mallesham Dasari, Edward Lu, Micheal Farb, Nuno Pereira, Ivan Liang, Anthony Rowe
  IEEE VR 2023 (IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces)
• FLASH: Video-Embeddable AR Anchors for Live Events (video, talk)
  Edward Lu, John Miller, Nuno Pereira, Anthony Rowe
  IEEE ISMAR 2021 (IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality)
• ARENA: The Augmented Reality Edge Networking Architecture (video, webpage)
  Nuno Pereira, Anthony Rowe, Micheal Farb, Ivan Liang, Edward Lu, Eric Riebling
  IEEE ISMAR 2021 (IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality)

• Generating a Dynamic Controller for a Flamingo Inspired Robot using Deep Reinforcement Learning (video1, video2)
  Edward Lu, Nathan J. Kong, J. Joseph Payne, Aaron M. Johnson
  Dynamic Walking 2020

Awards

• NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, 2023
• Meta PhD Fellowship (Finalist), 2023
• University Honors, CMU 2022
• Best Paper (Finalist), ISMAR 2021 — ARENA: The Augmented Reality Edge Networking Architecture
• Best "Hybrid Conference of the Future", ISMAR 2021 — Hybrid Conference Experiences in the ARENA

Experience

I have been working with Prof. Anthony Rowe's lab since Summer 2020.

I was a research intern at Magic Leap in Summer 2022.

I was a SWE intern at Apple in Summer 2021.

I have also worked with Prof. Aaron Johnson's lab from Summer 2019 to Spring 2020.