Dr Haiyan (Helen) Lu is an associate professor in School of Computer Science in the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, and a core member of the Decision Systems and e-Service Intelligence Research Laboratory in the Centre for Artificial Intelligence at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS).

She received her Bachelor and Master Degrees in Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) China in 1985 and 1988, respectively, and PhD degree from UTS in 2002.

Her main research interests are heuristic optimization techniques, forecasting and prediction of time series, ontology-based knowledge representation, recommendation systems and causal relationship, inference and reasoning in data streams.

She have published three book chapters, 69 refereed journal papers and 82 refereed international conference papers. She is a senior member of IEEE.