研究方向为粒子物理实验。通过实验手段研究粒子的基本结构及其相互作用，从而揭示自然界物质的基本构成。曾参加位于德国汉堡DESY国家实验室的HERMES实验项目。目前参加位于北京正负电子对撞机的北京谱仪III实验项目和位于瑞士欧洲核子中心的LHCb实验项目。

招收粒子物理实验、探测器研究和核技术及应用等方向研究生。

2002年起参加位于德国DESY的国际高能实验HERMES合作组，参与HERMES软件开发测试，HERMES探测器增益监控系统，以及一系列重要的物理前沿热点研究，包括寻找奇异强子态和研究核子内部的横向极化结构。 

2008年起加入北京谱议BESIII实验国际合作组，参与BESIII的物理分析和软件开发工作。目前负责MDC带电径迹快速重建和事例起始时间测量系统，参与强子谱、粲耦素衰变，粲强子物理的研究工作。 曾任BESIII国际合作组会议报告遴选委员会秘书和主席、物理协调人等职务。现任合作组联合发言人。

2015年加入欧洲核子中心大型强子对撞机上的LHCb实验组，开展强子谱学、寻找CP破坏和新物理等方面研究。

发表科研论文列表详见inspirehep网站：
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/Xiao.Rui.Lyu.1?ln=zh_CN
主要发表论文包括：

1. BESIII Collaboration, First Measurement of the Form Factors in Ds+ → K0e+ νe and Ds+ → K00e+ νe Decays, Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 061801 (2019)
2. BESIII Collaboration, Observation of e+e− → Ds^- D^(∗)0K⁺ and study of the P-wave Ds mesons, Chin. Phys. C 43, 031001 (2019)
3. BESIII Collaboration, Measurement of the absolute branching fractions of Λc⁺ →Ληπ⁺ and Σ(1385)⁺η, Phys. Rev. D 99, 032010 (2019)
4. BESIII Collaboration, Study of the decay D0 →K0bar π−e+ν, Phys. Rev. D 99, 011103(R) (2019)
5. BESIII Collaboration, Measurement of the absolute branching fraction of inclusive decay Λc → Λ+X, Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 062003 (2018) 
6. BESIII Collaboration, Measurements of absolute branching fractions for Λc→Ξ⁰K⁺ and Ξ(1530)⁰K⁺, Phys. Lett. B 783, 200 (2018)
7. BESIII Collaboration, Study of the decays D+ → eta(') e+ v, Phys. Rev. D 97, 092009 (2018)
8. BESIII Collaboration, Search for the rare decays D→ h(h')e⁺e^-, Phys. Rev. D 97, 072015 (2018) 
9. LHCb Collaboration, Measurement of the Lifetime of the Doubly Charmed Baryon Xi_cc⁺⁺, Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 052002 (2018) 
10. LHCb Collaboration, First observation of the doubly charmed baryon decay Xi_cc⁺⁺→ Xic⁺pi⁺, Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 162002 (2018)
11. LHCb Collaboration, Measurement of Upsilon production in pp collisions at sqrt(s)=13TeV, JHEP 07, 134 (2018)
12. HFLAV group, Averages of b-hadron, c-hadron, and tau-lepton properties as of summer 2016, Eur. Phys. J. C 77, 895 (2017) 
13. BESIII Collaboration, Observation of the decay Λc +→ Σ−π+π+π0, Phys. Lett. B 772, 388 (2017).
14. BESIII Collaboration, Branching fraction measurements of ψ(3686)→γχcJ, Phys. Rev. D 96, 032001(2017) 
15. BESIII Collaboration, Search for the radiative leptonic decay D+→γe+νe, Phys. Rev. D 95, 071102(R) (2017)
16. BESIII Collaboration, Observation of Λc+ → nKsπ+, Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 112001 (2017) 
17. BESIII Collaboration, Measurement of the absolute branching fraction for  Λc+ →  μ+ν, Phys. Lett. B 767, 42 (2017) 
18. LHCb Collaboration, Observation of the Doubly Charmed Baryon Ξcc++, Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 112001 (2017) 
19. Dan Wang, Xiao-Rui Lyu et. al., Charmed baryon decay asymmetry in e+e- annihilation, Chin. Phys. C 41, 023106 (2017)
20. Qingnian Xu, Xiao-Rui Lyu et. al., Radiation studies for the MOMENT target station, Chin. Phys. C 40, 126001 (2016)
21. LHCb Collaboration, Measurement of the ratio of branching fractions B(Bc+ → J/ψK+)/B(Bc+ → J/ψπ+), Journal of HEP 09, 153 (2016)
22. BESIII Collaboration, Measurements of absolute hadronic branching fractions of Λc+ baryon, Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 052001 (2016)
23. BESIII Collaboration, Measurement of azimuthal asymmetries in inclusive charged dipion production in e+e- annihilation at sqrt(s)=3.65 GeV, Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 042001 (2016)
24. BESIII Collaboration, Measurement of the Absolute Branching Fraction for Λc→Λeν, Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 221805 (2015)
25. BESIII Collaboration, Observation of a Neutral Structure near the DD* Mass Threshold in e+e−→ (DD*)⁰π⁰at √s=4.226 and 4.257GeV, Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 222002 (2015)      
26. BESIII Collaboration, Observation of a Neutral Charmoniumlike State Zc(4025)0 in e+e−→ (D*D*)0π0, Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 182002 (2015)
27. Xiao-Xia Liu, Xiao-Rui Lyu, Yong-Sheng Zhu, Combined estimation for multi-measurements of branching ratio, Chin. Phys. C39, 103001 (2015) 
28. BESIII Collaboration, Measurement of the branching fractions of Ds→η′X and Ds→η′ρ+ in e+e−→DsDs, Phys. Lett. B750, 466 (2015) 
29. BESIII Collaboration, Measurement of yCP in D0–D0 oscillation using quantum correlations in e+e−→D⁰D⁰at √s=3.773GeV, Phys. Lett. B744, 339 (2015) 
30. BESIII Collaboration, Measurement of the D→Kπ strong phase difference in ψ(3770)→D0D0, Phys. Lett. B734, 227 (2014)
31. BESIII Collaboration, Observation of a charged charmoniumlike structure in e+e−→ (D∗ D∗)±π∓ at sqrt(s)=4.26GeV, Phys. Rev. Lett.112, 132001 (2014) 
32. Ying-Hui Guan, Xiao-Rui Lu et. al., Study on Efficiency of Event Start Time Determination at BESIII, Chin. Phys. C38, 016201 (2014) 
33. Ying-Hui Guan, Xiao-Rui Lu et. al., Simultaneous least squares fitter based on the Lagrange multiplier method, Chin. Phys. C37, 106201 (2013) 
34. BESIII Collaboration, Evidence for ηc->γγ and measurement of J/ψ->3γ，Phys. Rev. D87, 032003 (2013) 
35.  Changli Ma, Xiao-Rui Lu et. al., An extended segment pattern dictionary for pattern matching tracking algorithm at BESIII, Chin. Phys. C37, 066202 (2013) 
36. BESIII Collaboration, Evidence for the Direct Two-Photon Transition from ψ(3686) to J/Ψ，Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 172002 (2012) 
37. BESIII Collaboration, Observation of chi_cJ decays to Lambda Lamda pi+pi-，Phys. Rev. D86, 052004 (2012) 
38. Zhi-Guo He, Xiao-Rui Lu, Joan Soto, Yangheng Zheng, The discrete contribution to y'→ J/y+gg，Phys. Rev. D83, 054028 (2011) 
39. Xiao-Rui Lu, Study on the two-photon transition from psi(2S) to J/psi at BESIII, International Journal of Modern Physics A26, 552 (2011) 
40. 胡继峰，吕晓睿，郑阳恒，基于XML的粒子物理数据分析的接口及框架，核电子学与探测技术第8期，(2011) 
41. HERMES Collaboration, “Evidence for a Transverse Single-Spin Asymmetry in Leptoproduction of Pion Pairs,” Journal of High Energy Physics 0806, 017 (2008)
42. Xiao-Rui Lu (for the HERMES Collaboration), “Spin Structure of the Nucleon Studied at HERMES,” Proc. INPC2007, (Tokyo 2007), Nucl. Phys. A805, Volume 2, 129 (2008). 
43. HERMES Collaboration, “Longitudinal spin transfer to the Lambda hyperon in semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering,” Phys. Rev. D 74, 072004 (2006). 
44. HERMES Collaboration, “Evidence for a narrow |S| = 1 baryon state at a mass of 1528-MeV in quasi-real photoproduction,” Phys. Lett. B 585, 213 (2004)

国际会议

1. Decays of charmed hadrons (plenary), Joint Workshop of future tau-charm factory, Dec. 4-8, 2018, Orsay, France

2. Experimental Program for a Super Tau-Charm Factory, the 62nd ICFA Advanced Beam Dynamics Workshop on High Luminosity Circular e+e- Colliders (eeFACT2018), September 24-27, 2018, Hong Kong, China

3. Recent results on hadron physics at BESIII (plenary), 10th Workshop on Hadron physics in China and Opportunities Worldwide, July 26-30, 2018, Weihai, China 

4. Lambda_c physics at BESIII (plenary), The 8th International Workshop on Charm Physics (Charm2018), May 21-25, 2018, Novosibirsk, Russia

5. Charmonium production in proton-proton collisions at LHC (plenary), The 8th International Workshop on Charm Physics (Charm2018), May 21-25, 2018, Novosibirsk, Russia

6. Studies on the exotic hadrons below 2GeV at BESIII (plenary),  Workshop "QED and QCD Effects in Atomic and Hadron Physics", Jan 31 – Feb. 5, 2018, Lanzhou, China 
7. The charged Zc states at BESIII, 6th International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics (ICNFP2017), 17 - 26 August 2017, Kolymbari, Creta, Greece
8. Selected result sat BESIII, The OCPA9 International Conference on Physics Education and Frontier Physics, July 16–20 2017, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
9. Quantum Coherence in D decays at BESIII, Quantum Coherence in D decays at BESIII, 9th International Workshop on the CKM Unitarity Triangle (CKM2016), Nov. 28 - Dec. 2, 2016, Mumbai, India
10. Overview on charm baryon (Λc) decays (plenary),  The 8th International Workshop on Charm Physics (Charm2016), Sep. 5-9, 2016, Bologna, Italy
11. D⁰-D⁰ mixing and D_(s) hadronic decays at BESIII, 38th International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP 2016), Aug. 3-10, 2016, Chicago, USA 
12. Measurement of Collins Asymmetry at BESIII (plenary),  XVI workshop on high energy spin physics (DSPIN2015), September 8-12, 2015, Dubna, Russia  
13. Measurement of Λc  decays at BESIII (plenary), The 7th International Workshop on Charm Physics (Charm2015), May 17-23, 2015, Detroit, Michigan, USA 
14. Physics Highlights from the BESIII experiment  (plenary), Flavor and top physics @ 100 TeV workshop, March 4-7, 2015, IHEP, Beijing, China
15. Charmed baryon at threshold at BESIII  (plenary), International Workshop on Physics at Future High Intensity Collider @ 2-7GeV in China, January 13-17, 2015, USTC, Hefei, China
16. Recent results and prospects for charm mixing and CPV at Threshold, The International Workshop on the CKM Unitarity Triangle (CKM2014), September 8th - 12th, 2014, Vienna, Austria 
17. Physics with entangled neutral D mesons at BES-III and future perspectives (plenary),  CERN Workshop on QUESTIONING FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICAL PRINCIPLES, May 6th - 9th, 2014, CERN
18. Strong phase in D0→Kπ decay and yCP measurement at BESIII, The 6th International Workshop on Charm Physics (Charm2013), Aug. 31st – Sept. 4th, 2013, Manchester, England
19. Charm Rare Decays at BESIII (plenary), SuperB Physics Workshop 2012, May 31st - June 5th, 2012, Elba, Italy 
20. Recent Progress on Charmonium Decays at BESIII (plenary), 5th High-Energy Physics Conference in Madagascar (HEP-MAD 11), Aug. 25th – 31th, 2011, Antananarivo, Madagascar
21. Study on the Two-Photon Transition from ψ(2S) to J/ψ at BESIIII, 11th International Workshop On Meson Production, Properties And Interaction (MESON2010), June 10th -15th, 2010, Cracow, Poland
22. HERMES Results on Single-Spin Asymmetries in Lepto-Production of Oppositely Charged Pion Pairs from the Transversely Polarized Hydrogen Target, International workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering (DIS) and Related Subjects (DIS2008), Apr. 7th - 11th, 2008, University College London, England
23. Spin Structure of the Nucleon Studied at HERMES, International Nuclear Physics conference 2007 (INPC2007), June 3rd -8th , 2007, Tokyo, Japan

国内会议

1. Charm Prospects at BESIII, 全国第十六届重味物理和CP破坏研讨会， 2018年10月26日至29日，郑州
2. Prospects of Charm physics at BESIII and Beyond, (大会报告) 全国第十四届重味物理与CP破坏研讨会, 2016年11月3-6日，上海交通大学
3. Hadron Spectroscopy at BESIII, (大会报告) 2016年全国粒子物理年会, 2016年8月22-26日，合肥，中国科学技术大学
4. Hadron form factor and Collins Effect at BESIII, 第十六届全国中高能核物理大会， 2015年8月19日至23日，重庆大学
5. Charmed hadron decays at BESIII, 全国第十三届重味物理和CP破坏研讨会， 2015年7月22日至26日，兰州大学 
6. Study of XYZ states at BESIII,  (大会报告) 高能物理分会第九届全国会员代表大会暨学术年会, 2014年4月18日至23日，湖北武汉华中师范大学