Dr. Lu is the Director of the State Key Laboratory of Disaster Prevention & Reduction for Power Grid of State Grid Hunan Electric Power Company. He is also the dean of the School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Changsha University of Science and Technology，He is a leading talent in scientific and technological innovation under the National Ten-Thousand Talents Program. He has long been engaged in the research on power grid disaster prevention safety and its engineering applications at the front line, and has made outstanding contributions in the fields of power grid anti-icing, fire prevention, lightning protection, etc. He has been authorized with 108 invention patents, formulated 12 domestic and international standards, published 4 academic works, and published 102 papers in SCI/EI indexed journals. 

As the first accomplished person, he has won one National Science and Technology Progress Award (First Prize), one National Technological Invention Award (Second Prize), and one China Patent Gold Award respectively, as well as six provincial and ministerial-level first prizes. He has also been awarded the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Prize and the National Award for Scientific and Technological Innovation.