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Luna Lu is a Professor in the Lyles School of Civil Engineering at Purdue University, with a courtesy appointment in the School of Materials Engineering. She is the vice president of industry partnerships and the founding director of the Center for Intelligent Infrastructure. Her research interests focus on novel nanomaterials, IoT devices, energy harvesting, and infrastructure sensing applications. Lu has successfully transferred technologies from her research lab into engineering applications and is the founder and CEO of Wavelogix Inc., a venture-backed startup that provides REBEL™ IoT sensors for smart infrastructure solutions. She has authored 150 peer-reviewed publications and holds 10 published and provisional patents. Lu has received numerous prestigious awards, including the National Science Foundation CAREER Award and the ASCE Alfred Noble Prize. Her work has been recognized by TIME magazine and received the Edison Award. In her personal life, she enjoys building LEGO sets with her daughter, reading biographies of tech leaders, playing the piano, and hiking in the woods.
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