Background
Lund was born in Aarhus, Denmark, and received the "kandidat" degree in 1988 from the University of Aarhus and his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Chicago in computer science.
Lund was born in Aarhus, Denmark, and received the "kandidat" degree in 1988 from the University of Aarhus and his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Chicago in computer science.
His thesis, entitled The Power of Interaction, was chosen as an Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) "Distinguished Dissertation". Lund was a co-author on two of five competing papers at the 1990 Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science characterizing complexity classes such as PSPACE and NEXPTIME in terms of interactive proof systems This work became part of his 1991 Doctor of Philosophy thesis from the University of Chicago under the supervision of Lance Fortnow and László Babai, for which he was a runner-up for the 1991 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Doctoral Dissertation Award.
More recently he has published highly cited work on internet traffic engineering.
He has been working for American Telephone & Telegraph Company Laboratories since August 1991.