Kevin Lu is Chief Engineer at Magna Electronics and a technical Executive of automotive camera technologies with 13 years of experience in automotive driver assistance systems and 30 years of experience of R&D and industrialization of cameras, optical imaging and machine vision systems. He is a recognized expert of lens, imager, image quality in the automotive camera industry with a deep understanding of camera optics, electrical, mechanical, software and system architecture. In addition to being an effective engineering manager of a global team of camera design engineers, Kevin has a track record of successful technical sales, product management, camera optics design and supplier development. Right now Kevin Lu leads a passionate team for building Magna Electronics' optics and camera engineering and manufacturing capabilities, architecting and designing high performance and cost-competitive camera and near field products.
Further, Kevin filed as Prolific innovator over 50 issued patents and many more pending patent applications, some of which are fundamental to the products installed in millions of automotive vehicles. He also authored >40 papers in refereed scientific journals and conference proceedings and was awarded as Inventor of the Year, 2013 by Magna Powertrain and Inspiring Innovator, 2018 by Magna International.