Systems expert Shan Lu joined UChicago’s Department of Computer Science in 2014. Her research focuses on software reliability and efficiency, particularly detecting, diagnosing, and fixing functional and performance bugs in large software systems.

In 2018, with support from UChicago Global, Professor Lu established the Student Summer Research Fellowship Program, which seeks to increase UChicago Computer Science’s profile abroad and grow diversity in the undergraduate pipeline. The program’s success and positive feedback from both students and faculty participants has provided best practices for several other units conducting similar summer undergraduate research programs, including the Department of Chemistry, Department of Mathematics, and the Biological Sciences Division.

Shan loves traveling, particularly into mountains, which is what her first name means. She has started a new unpaid internship as a math, reading, writing, and swimming teacher for her daughter during COVID. 

- originally published by UChicago Global Digest.