Lu Jiang is currently a research lead at ByteDance USA, spearheading video generation efforts within the foundation model named SEED. He is a former adjunct faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to this, he served as a staff research scientist and manager at Google. His research has been integral in multiple Google products, such as YouTube, Cloud, AutoML, Ads, Waymo, and Translate, 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 conferences 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, ACM Multimedia, and as an associate editor for CVIU and IEEE TPAMI, TMLR.