Lu AN (安璐)

I received my Bachelor degree from both Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT) and Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) in June 2012 and received my Master degree from BUPT in March 2015. My research area was in Heterogeneous Cellular Networks. I received my Ph.D. degree from North Carolina State University (NCSU) under the supervision of Dr. Alexandra Duel-Hallen. My research interests are game-theoretic/learning methods and security issues in smart-grid/microgird systems.  I'm also professional with Machine Learning/Data Science and I've interned as a Data Scientist at IBM security. I was a Data Scientist at IBM Cloud Watson AIOps where I led the development of Real-Time Statistical Model for log anomaly detection. I also worked as Machine Learning Engineer at LinkedIn Flagship Search AI team focusing on Blended Search Page Ranking and Knowledge-Card Recommendation. In 2023, I joined NVIDIA as a Staff MLE in Enterprise AI & Automation team. I'm now a Engineering Manager leading initiatives to advance core AI capabilities and quality for AI products.

• Oct 30th, 2024: I've been promoted as an Engineering Manager, AI/ML at NVIDIA.

• August 28th, 2023: I joined NVIDIA as a full-time Staff MLE.

• March 14th, 2022: I joined LinkedIn as a full-time Machine Learning Engineer.

• November 23rd, 2021: I was awarded the Outstanding Technical Achievement Award (OTAA) due to the development of Real-Time Statistical Model.

• September 14th, 2020: I joined IBM as a full-time Data Scientist.

• October, 30th, 2020: I passed my Final exam! Here is the slides.

• May, 8th, 2019: I passed my Preliminary Exam! I'm a Ph.D. candidate now! Here are my report and slides.

• February, 20th, 2019: I received the Data Scientist Internship offer from IBM. I'm going to join IBM @Sandy Springs office from May 20th.

• March, 27th, 2017: I passed my Qualifying exam. Here are my qualifying review report and slides.

• L. An, A-J. Tu, X. Liu and R. Akkiraju, "Real-time Statistical Log Anomaly Detection with Continuous AIOps Learning,"  In CLOSER, pp. 223-230. 2022. [link][blog]

• P. Shukla, L. An, A. Chakrabortty and A. Duel-Hallen, "A Robust Stackelberg Game for Cyber-Security Investment in Networked Control Systems," IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 2022. [link]

• L. An, "Game-theoretic methods for cost allocation and security in Smart Grid", Ph.D. Thesis at NC State University, 2020. [link][slides]

• L. An, A. Chakrabortty and A. Duel-Hallen, "A Stackelberg Security Investment Game for Voltage Stability of Power Systems," in 59th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2020. [link][slides]

• L. An, J. Duan, M. Chow and A. Duel-Hallen, "A Distributed and Resilient Bargaining Game for Weather-Predictive Microgrid Energy Cooperation,"  IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2019. [link][poster]

• L. An, J. Duan, Y. Zhang, M. Chow and A. Duel-Hallen, "Distributed multi-step power scheduling and cost allocation for cooperative microgrids," 2017 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting, Chicago, IL, 2017, pp. 1-5.  [link][poster]

• T. Zhang, J. Zhao, L. An, and D. Liu, “Energy Efficiency of Base Station Deployment in Ultra Dense HetNets: A Stochastic Geometry Analysis,” IEEE Wirel. Commun. Lett., vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 184–187, Apr. 2016. [link] 

• L. An, T. Zhang, and C. Feng, “Stochastic geometry based energy-efficient base station density optimization in cellular networks,” in 2015 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 2015, pp. 1614–1619. [link]

• L. An, T. Zhang, and C. Feng, “Joint optimization for base station density and user association in energy-efficient cellular networks,” in 2014 International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC), 2014, pp. 85–90. [link]

• L. An, R. Zou, Z. Liu, Z. Hu, and Q. Niu, “An analytical model for TDMA-based MAC protocols in VANETs,” in 2014 International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC), 2014, pp. 607–612. [link]

• T. Zhang, L. An, Y. Chen, and K. K. Chai, “Aggregate interference statistical modeling and user outage analysis of heterogeneous cellular networks,” in 2014 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2014, pp. 1260–1265. [link]

• Y. Zhu, Z. Zeng, T. Zhang, L. An, and L. Xiao, “An energy efficient user association scheme based on cell sleeping in LTE heterogeneous networks,” in 2014 International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC), 2014, pp. 75–79. [link] 

• L. An, "Research on Energy-Efficient Network Node Deployment in HetNets", Master Thesis of BUPT, Mar., 2015. [link] 

• L. An, " Supplementary Material for:  Robust and Scalable Game-theoretic Security Investment Methods for Voltage Stability of Power Systems",  2023. [link]

• L. An, "Supplementary Material for " A Stackelberg Security Investment Game for Voltage Stability of Power Systems","  2020. [link]

• IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

• IEEE Access

• IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting

• IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics

• IEEE Trans on Power Systems

• IEEE Trans on Smart Grid

• IEEE Trans on Control Systems Technology

• ELSEVIER Automatica