Dr. Lu is Deputy Director for Literature Search at the National Center for Biotechnology (NCBI), leading its overall efforts of improving literature search and information access in NCBI’s production resources. He is also an NIH Senior Investigator (early tenure) and directs the Text Mining / Natural Language Processing (NLP) Research program at NCBI/NLM where they are developing computational methods and software tools for analyzing and making sense of unstructured text data in biomedical literature and clinical notes towards accelerated discovery and better health. Before that, Dr. Lu was NIH's first Earl Stadtman Investigator in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. His many recent publications and invited talks (see below) generally have a focus on the following topics: PubMed Search (e.g. biomedical literature retrieval; author name disambiguation) BioNLP & Text Mining (e.g. named entity recognition and information extraction) eCuration (e.g. computer-assisted biomedical data curation at scale) Machine Learning for Healthcare (e.g. deep learning, EMR mining & medical image analysis)