Lu Jiang is currently a research lead at ByteDance USA, leading foundation models for video generation. He is a former adjunct faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University and a research scientist and manager at Google. His research has been integral in multiple products, such as YouTube, Google Cloud, Google Ads, Waymo, TikTok, and CapCut, impacting the daily lives of billions of users worldwide. His research interests lie in the interdisciplinary field of Multimedia and Machine Learning, with a focus on video creation and multimodal foundation models. His work has been awarded the Best Paper at top machine learning venues such as ICML and IJCAI-JAIR, and has also been nominated for the Best Paper at ACL and CVPR.

Lu is an active member of the research community, serving as an AI panelist for America's Seed Fund (NSF SBIR). He regularly acts as an area chair for conferences like CVPR, ICCV, ICML, ICLR, NeurIPS, and as an associate editor for CVIU, IEEE TPAMI, and TMLR.