Lu is a Senior Lubrication Engineer at Tesla, Inc. where she is working to understand and optimize the tribology of electric vehicles. Her doctoral work at UPenn’s Carpick Research Group focused on tribology, the science of interacting surfaces in relative motion. She says that her favorite part of her research was “creating a new model in the field backed up by new results that people have never discovered before.” While at Walker’s, Lu was given the opportunity to connect with engineers off campus and to conduct research, which she says was the “springboard for what I do now.” While at Penn, Lu completed several internships with ExxonMobil.