Hang Lu is the Love Family Professor in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and the Deputy Director of the Interdisciplinary Bioengineering Program at Georgia Tech. Her current research interests are microfluidics, automation, data analytics, and their applications in neurobiology, cell biology, cancer, and biotechnology. Her award and honors include the ACS Analytical Chemistry Young Innovator Award, a National Science Foundation CAREER award, an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship, a DuPont Young Professor Award, a DARPA Young Faculty Award, Council of Systems Biology in Boston (CSB2) Prize in Systems Biology, and Georgia Tech Outstanding PhD Thesis Advisor Award; she was also named an MIT Technology Review TR35 top innovator, and invited to give the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Van Ness Award Lectures in 2011, and the Saville Lecture at Princeton in 2013. She is an elected fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and an elected fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). She is currently the associate director of the Southeast Center for Mathematics and Biology (SCMB) supported by NSF and Simons Foundation. Her lab’s work has been and is supported by US NSF, NIH, private foundations and others.