Jinzhu Lu was born on November 3, 1989. She received Ph.D. degrees in agricultural electrification and automation from Zhejiang University, China, in 2016. She worked at the University of Florida as a visiting scholar in 2015. She has published 10+ papers and seven patents. She is a member of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers. She was invited to give speeches at the ASABE annual meetings in 2014 and 2015. Since 2019, she has been an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Xihua University, Chengdu, China. Her research spans many aspects of machine vision, machine learning, and image processing. Her most recent projects were the teabud picking robot and the tomato disease detection system.