Long Lu is an Associate Professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences, a core faculty member of the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute, and a co-director for the SecLab (Systems Security Lab), at Northeastern University.

His research aims to secure low-level software in widely deployed or critical systems. He designs and builds novel program analysis and hardening techniques, hardware-backed primitives for security, and trusted/confidential computing environments. His recent work has focused on embedded and IoT/CPS systems.

Long has won an NSF CAREER Award, an Air Force Faculty Fellowship, two Google ASPIRE Awards, etc. His research is supported by the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, the Army Research Office, etc.