Jun Lu
Independent Director
Dr. Lu has extensive experience in technology research and development. In August 2021, he co-founded Version X LLC, a startup company focusing on software creation services for product scaling on the Internet (the “Version X”). Version X developed a pioneering expert system that applied the latest DNA science developments and hands-on clinical research to effectively improve everyday health and well-being of sub-health individuals. Version X also developed a cloud-based exchange system for freight forwarders and shippers to trade ocean container space and improve the utilization of idle container capacity. From October 2019 to February 2022, Dr. Lu acted as a Site Tech Lead at Houzz Inc., where he led, managed, and expanded the Santa Monica engineering team to operate a major product line. From October 2007 to October 2019, Dr. Lu was with Google, supervising the Site Reliability Engineering (the “SRE”) team in Los Angeles. The SRE team assumed responsibility for keeping Google’s vital services and infrastructures running reliably. Dr. Lu had designed several patented systems that were used in various Google products, such as Google Ads, Google Photos, and YouTube. Dr. Lu’s expertise was in large-scale system design, development, and monitoring. Dr. Lu performed research in self-organizing ad hoc networks at the University of California, Irvine, carrying out research projects supported by various government agencies or programs including National Science Foundation, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and California MICRO and CoRe programs. Dr. Lu had published research papers in top conferences and journals and authored book chapters on ad-hoc and peer-to-peer networks. Dr. Lu obtained his Doctor of Philosophy and Master of Science degrees in Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine in 2008 and 2003 respectively. Dr. Lu also received his Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Computer Engineering from the Beijing University of Post and Telecommunications in Beijing, China in 2000 and 1997 respectively.
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