Jingwan (Cynthia) Lu serves as the Head of Applied Research (Senior Director) for GenAI at Adobe and is the founder of Adobe Firefly, in addition to holding the position of principal scientist at Adobe Research. Jingwan has a strong academic background with a PhD in Computer Science from Princeton University and participated in a non-degree exchange program in Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to these roles, Jingwan gained experience as a Procedural Imaging Group Intern and a Creative Technology Lab Intern at Adobe.