 Lu, who helped found and is a board member of the Australian Research Council (ARC), won its Federation Fellowship in both 2003 and 2008.He has also been named among Australia's Top 100 Most Influential Engineers, in 2013, being named to the Queensland Greats Award this same year.In 2014, Lu was awarded an Australia-China Achievement Award for Education and in 2017 he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia.