Qiuyu (Luca) Lu

Assistant Professor

V1301e
+852 2766 6848
qiuyu.lu@polyu.edu.hk
Expertise: Ecological HCI, Computational Design, Bio-inspired & Biomimetic Design, Digital Fabrication

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Biography

Dr Qiuyu (Luca) Lu is an Assistant Professor (Presidential Young Scholar) in the School of Design at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Director of the Interbeing Lab, which designs intelligence for mutualism between humans, nature, and machines. He holds a Ph.D. in Design and a B.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering from Tsinghua University, and has conducted research as a postdoctoral or visiting scholar at the MIT Media Lab, UC Berkeley, and Carnegie Mellon University. His award-winning work, published in leading HCI venues, has also been exhibited internationally at Ars Electronica and the Milan Triennale.

He is recruiting multiple PhD students and two postdocs. Research assistants and visiting students are also welcome. In addition to applicants with a design background, candidates from computer science, mechanical engineering, materials science, and related fields are strongly encouraged to apply. Positions may focus on one or more tracks:

Experimental Track: Engineering and prototyping of novel interactive hardware systems.
Computational Track: AI-aided design, computational design tools, and algorithm development.
Design Track: Emphasis on understanding the design framework, user experience, stakeholders’ needs, etc. regarding the novel hardware and software technologies.

Interested candidates should send a CV and, optionally, a website/portfolio link to Dr Lu.

Education and Academic Qualifications

PhD in Design, Tsinghua University
BEng in Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University

Research Output

Jiawei Fang, Yuran Sun, Chengtian Ma, Qiuyu Lu (corresponding author), and Lining Yao (corresponding author)(2025). RoboMoRe: LLM-based Robot Co-design via Joint Optimization of Morphology and Reward. arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.00276

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00276

Qiuyu Lu, Semina Yi, Mengtian Gan, Jihong Huang, Xiao Zhang, Yue Yang, Chenyi Shen, and Lining Yao (2024). Degrade to Function: Towards Eco-friendly Morphing Devices that Function Through Programmed Sequential Degradation. In Proceedings of the 37th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST ’24), Article 109, 24 pages.

https://doi.org/10.1145/3654777.3676464

Qiuyu Lu, Tianyu Yu, Semina Yi, Yuran Ding, Haipeng Mi, and Lining Yao (2023). Sustainflatable: Harvesting, Storing and Utilizing Ambient Energy for Pneumatic Morphing Interfaces. In Proceedings of the 36th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST ’23). Article 32, 20 pages. (Best Paper Honorable Mention). https://doi.org/10.1145/3586183.3606721

Qiuyu Lu, Andreea Danielescu, Vikram Iyer, Pedro Lopes, and Lining Yao (2024). Ecological HCI: Reflection and Future. Special Interest Group at the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’24). 4 pages.
https://dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.1145/3613905.3643985

Qiuyu Lu, Haiqing Xu, Yijie Guo, Joey Yu Wang, and Lining Yao. Fluidic Computation Kit: Towards Electronic-free Shape-changing Interfaces. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’23). 21 pages. https://dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.1145/3544548.3580783

For more research outputs, please refer to ORCiD.