Guozhen Lu

Guozhen Lu (born 1963) is a professor of mathematics at the University of Connecticut. He is known for his contributions to harmonic analysis, geometric analysis, and partial differential equations.

Education and career
Lu graduated from Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China in 1983 and earned his Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 1991. He was a Bateman Research Instructor in the Department of Mathematics at the California Institute of Technology from 1991 to 1993, an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Wright State University from 1993 to 1997, and an associate professor of the same department from 1997 to 2000 before he moved to Wayne State University. He became a professor of mathematics at Wayne State University in 2002. He joined the University of Connecticut in 2016 as a professor. Lu has co-organized many international conferences, including the series of the East Asian Conference in Harmonic Analysis and Applications, which is held annually, rotating between China, Japan, and Korea.

Awards and honors
Lu was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, class of 2023. In 2015 and 2023, Lu was awarded a Simons Fellowship in Mathematics from the Simons Foundation. In 2017, he was elected to the 2018 class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, "for contributions to harmonic analysis and partial differential equations, and for service to the mathematical community."

Editorial board service
Lu has served as an editor of numerous mathematical research journals including Nonlinear Analysis, Advanced Nonlinear Studies, Acta Mathematica Sinica (English Series), Communications on Pure and Applied Analysis, and Journal of Pseudo-Differential Operators and Applications.

Since December of 2022, Lu has served as the Editor-in-Chief of Advanced Nonlinear Studies (De Gruyter). Since 2023, Lu has served as Editor-in-Chief of the book series, de Gruyter Studies in Mathematics.

Community service
Lu has served as a member of the Michigan governor's advisory council on Asian Pacific American Affairs from 2005 to 2009, and as a commissioner of Michigan Asian Pacific American Affairs Commission from 2009 to 2016.