Lu Lu, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Serving as the Team Manager and Tech Lead of the Liquid Crystal & Polarization Optics team within Reality Labs Research (RLR). Our mission is to enable breakthrough technologies in liquid crystal and polarization optics for viewing optics miniaturization and display performance optimization in next-generation AR glasses and VR headsets. The core technology of the team is liquid crystal polarization holograms (LCPH) and their applications in AR/VR/MR display systems. Examples of our R&D portfolio include: 1. Advancing Polarization Volume Gratings (PVG) waveguides for AR smart glasses.2. Developing apochromatic diffractive based folding optics towards sunglasses style VR display systems. 3. Enabling novel eye-tracking, imaging sensing functionalities in space constrained optical systems. 4. Addressing accommodation vergence conflict to provide nature focus cues in AR/VR displays. 5. Improving optical efficiency & image quality (such as chromatic aberration corrections, ghost mitigations) in VR viewing optics & display modules.6. Exploring key technology building blocks for foveated display systems.

Team Manager and Tech Lead of the Polarization Optics & Display Innovation (LCX) team in Reality Labs at Meta. The goal of the team is to • Build a liquid crystal technology research & development platform. • Develop novel optics miniaturization and advanced display technologies. • Provide innovative display solutions for comfortable and immersive AR/VR/MR systems.

Led research effort of addressing the vergence-accommodation conflicts (VAC) issue of near-eye display systems, in the Optics & Display research group in Facebook Reality Labs (FRL).• Evaluated diverse VAC technologies from industry and academic research groups.• Prototyped near-eye displays demos based on liquid lenses, Fresnel type liquid crystal (LC) lenses, Pancharatnam Berry phase LC lenses and other technologies.• Started to build a liquid crystal research lab on-site.

Worked for Dr. Mary Lou Jepsen in the Advanced Display Research group. I was a contingent worker reporting to her and worked on developing her ideas of using micro-lens arrays and liquid crystal beam steering technologies to create virtual and augmented realities eye-wears. US Patent 10,670,928.

San Diego, Ca, Us

*Product Development: Pixtronix digital micro shutter MEMS display https://www.qualcomm.com/products/pixtronix*Engineering Work: Pixel Design Optimization for Pixel Yield & FOS Performance

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

*Product Development: TRANSITIONS® VANTAGE™ LENSES*Engineering Work: Improved the alignment of liquid crystals and photochromic dyes, polarization efficiency, anti-glare and color match *Project Management: Collaborated with the product development and process team at Transitions Optical, Inc. for successfully transferring technologies from lab to mass productions

Kent, Ohio, Us

Worked with Dr. Philip Bos and Dr. LC Chien on multiple industry sponsored projects:1) Liquid crystal lenses for applications in 3D displays and ophthalmic lenses (Sponsored by Intel & Pixel Optics) 2) Liquid crystal alignment by the surface localized polymer layer (Sponsored by Pixel Optics) 3) Optical Simulation of Tunable Liquid Crystal Lenses for applications in 3D Displays (Sponsored by Pixel Optics) 4) Effect of Alignment Layer on Ion Absorption (Sponsored by Intel & DuPont) 5) Fast-switching Electro-Optical Films & Blue Phase Displays (Filed 2 US patents) 6) Liquid crystal devices prototyping & Optical Coating in cleanroom