吕忠林现任上海纽约大学神经科学教授、华东师范大学 - 纽约大学脑与认知科学联合研究中心（上海纽约大学) 联合主任；纽约大学全球特聘教授。吕忠林教授于2019年加入上海纽约大学。此前，他在俄亥俄州立大学任职，担任文理学院心理学杰出教授，心理学、视光学和转化数据分析教授，以及俄亥俄州立大学认知与脑科学中心主任、认知与行为脑成像中心主。

      吕忠林教授是美国实验心理学会高级会士，以及美国心理科学协会高级会士。吕教授参与创立了Adaptive Sensory Technology公司，致力于开发基于人工智能的视功能精确测量工具，从根本上改革眼视光疾病的诊断与治疗。他于1989年获得中国科学技术大学理论物理学士学位，并于1992年在纽约大学获得物理学博士学位。吕教授于1992-1996年在加州大学尔湾分校担任认知科学助理研究员。 他于1996年加入南加州大学心理学系担任助理教授，2005年升任心理学和生物医学工程教授，2006年担任认知神经科学William M. Keck讲席教授。 2011年加入俄亥俄州立大学之前，他在南加州大学担任Dana and David Dornsife认知神经科学成像中心联合主任。

代表性论著

• Lu, Z.-L., Williamson, S. J. & Kaufman, L. (1992) Behavioral lifetime of human sensory memory predicted by physiological measures. Science, 258: 1668-1670
• Lu, Z.-L. & Sperling, G. (1995) Attention-generated apparent motion. Nature, 379: 237-239
• Lu, Z.-L. & Sperling, G. (1995) The functional architecture of human visual motion perception. Vision Research, 35: 2697-2722
• Suppes, P., Lu, Z.-L. & Han, B. (1997) Brain-wave recognition of words. Proceedings of National Academy of Science, USA, 94, 14965-14969
• Lu, Z.-L. & Dosher, B. (1998) External noise distinguishes mechanisms of attention. Vision Research, 38, 1183-1198
• Dosher, B. & Lu, Z.-L. (1998) Perceptual learning reflects external noise filtering and internal noise reduction through channel selection. Proceedings of National Academy, USA, 95, 13988-13993
• Lu. Z.-L., Neuse, J., Madigan, S., & Dosher, B. (2005) Decay of iconic memory in observers with mild cognitive impairment, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, USA, 102, 1797-1802
• Sperling, A. J., Lu, Z.-L., Manis, F. R. & Seidenberg, M. S. (2005) Deficits in template formation may underlie the etiology of developmental dyslexia, Nature Neuroscience, 7 (8), 862-863
• Petrov, A., Dosher, B. & Lu, Z.-L. (2005) Perceptual learning through incremental channel reweighting. Psychological Review, 112 (4), 715-743
• Lu, Z.-L. & Dosher, B. A. (2008) Characterizing observer states using external noise and observer models: Assessing internal representations with external noise. Psychological Review, 115 (1), 44-82
• Huang, C. B.,  Lu, Z.-L., & Zhou, Y. F. (2008) Broad bandwidth of perceptual learning in the visual system of adults with anisometropic amblyopia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 105 (10), 4068-4073
• Li, X. R., Lu, Z.-L., Tjan, B., Dosher, B. A. & Chu, W. (2008) Blood oxygenation level-dependent contrast response functions identify mechanisms of covert attention in early visual areas, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 105 (16), 6202-6207
• Xue, G., Lu, Z.-L. Levine, I. P., Weller, J. A., Li, X. R. & Bechara, A. (2009) Functional Dissociations of Risk and Reward Processing in the Medial Prefrontal Cortex, Cerebral Cortex, 19, 1019-1027
• Li, X., Lu, Z.-L., D’Argembeau, A., Ng, M. & Bechara, A. (2010) The Iowa gambling task in fMRI images, Human Brain Mapping, 31, 410-423
• Lesmes, L. A., Lu, Z.-L., Baek, J. & Albright, T. (2010) Bayesian Adaptive Estimation of the Contrast Sensitivity Function: the qCSF method, Journal of Vision, 10(3):17, 1–21
• Hua, T., Bao, P., Huang, C. B., Wang, Z., Xu, J., Zhou, Y. & Lu, Z.-L. (2010) Perceptual Learning Improves Contrast Sensitivity of V1 Neurons in Cats, Current Biology, 20, 887-894
• Xue, G., Mei, L., Chen, C., Lu, Z.-L., Dong, Q. & Poldrack, R. (2010) Greater neural pattern similarity across repetitions is associated with better memory, Science, 330(6000):97-101 (DOI: 10.1126/science.1193125)
• Bejjanki, V. R., Beck, J. M., Lu, Z.-L. & Pouget, A. (2011) Perceptual learning as improved probabilistic inference in early sensory areas, Nature Neuroscience 14: 642-648
• Dosher, B., Jeter, P., Liu, J. & Lu, Z.-L. (2013) How does visual perceptual learning transfer? An integrated reweighting theory (IRT) of perceptual learning and transfer, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, USA, 110(33): 13678–13683
• Lu, Z.-L. & Dosher, B. (2013) Visual Psychophysics: From Laboratory to Theory, The MIT Press. (464 pages)

教育背景

• 纽约大学 物理学博士