Lei Zuo
Chief Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Lab (Joint Appointment) @Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
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WORK HISTORY
Chief Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Lab (Joint Appointment) @Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
EDUCATION
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MS, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
Tsinghua University
BS, Automotive/Mechanical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
PhD, Mechanical Engineering
ABOUT LEI ZUO
Postdoc positions open in Prof Lei Zuo\'s lab at U Michigan, on control co-design and/or power electronics for ocean wave, current, and offshore wind energy. Please contact l•••••@umich.edu.Lei Zuo joined in the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor as an endowed professor in August 2022. Prior to that, he was the Robert E. Hord Jr. Endowed Professor at Virginia Tech and Director of NSF Industry-University Collaborative Research Center for Energy Harvesting Materials and Systems. He conducts research and teaching in the area of marine renewable energy, energy harvesting, mechatronics design, vibration control, vehicle dynamics, smart structures and sensors, and advanced manufacturing. He has authorized about 360 papers, including over 10 with best paper awards. His research has been supported with over US$25M by NSF, DOE, ONR, DOT, EPA, USAID, US Army, national labs, NY and VA state agencies and industry. He has advised 16 PhD and over 50 masters to competition of their degrees and over 10 postdocs. He has been a Fellow of ASME since 2016. Lei Zuo was the sole recipient of the 2017 ASME Leonardo da Vinci Award and the 2015 ASME Thar Energy Design Award, for “eminent achievement in the design or invention of a product which is universally recognized as an important advance in machine design,” and the 2015 ASME Thar Energy Design Award for “pioneering research in energy engineering, especially at large energy scale.” He also received R&D 100 Awards in 2011 and 2015, recognizing the 100 most significant technology innovations worldwide for those years. Lei Zuo recieved a 2014 SAE Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award, a 2014 EPA P3 award and three DOE American-Made Challenges Prizes (2019 and 2020).
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