Mr. Jianzhong Lu received his doctor degree in geography from Wuhan University, Wuhan China in 2010. He is now an associate professor in State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering of Survey Mapping and Remote Sensing in Wuhan University.

His research interests focus on remote sensing and numerical simulation of eco-environment. The main research direction includes remote sensing of environment, hydrology modelling and data assimilation, climate change and environment response, and deep learning in water resources management. 

He was funded to work in the Hong Kong Polytech University as an assistant researcher during 2007 and 2011 respectively, and worked as a visiting scholar in Ecolab, University Paul Sabatier - Toulouse III in France during Nov. 2014 to Nov. 2015, granted by China Scholarship Council. 

His scientific achievements have been operationally applied in the coastal water environment management system of Hong Kong, and the environmental monitoring and protection of Poyang Lake and Erhai Lake. He has been awarded the First prize of Hubei Development Research Award once, and the Second prize of National Surveying and Mapping Technology Progress Award twice. He is also the member of the national geographic condition monitoring committee of the Chinese society of surveying and mapping geographic information, the expert and training teacher of the Second National Survey of Pollution Sources in Hubei province. He served as paper reviewer for more than 30 international journals, and has published more than 100 papers, and applied / authorized 10 National Invention Patents and 6 Computer Software Copyright Registration.