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Lei Zuo, Professor, Virginia Tech, 11/2017

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Lei Zuo, Ph.D., Professor, ASME Fellow, John R. Jones III Faculty Fellow

Director, Energy Harvesting and Mechatronics Research Lab

Associate Director, NSF I/UCRC Center for Energy Harvesting Materials and Systems Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, VA 24061

Email: [email protected], Phone: (540) 231-7183, Fax: (540) 231-9100

Quick Highlights:

Awards: 2017 ASME Leonardo Da Vinci Award (for “eminent achievement in the design or

invention of a product which is universally recognized as an important advance in machine design”),

2015 ASME Thar Energy Design Award (for “pioneering research in energy engineering,

especially at large energy scale”), 2015 and 2011 R&D 100 Awards (for the 100 most significant

technology innovations of the year in the word), 2014 SAE Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award

Funding: US $10.5M (52 projects) in total as PI and co-PI since 2008 ($9.1M as PI, my share $7M).

Funding at VT (since 2014): $6.4M in total as PI or co-PI ($5.6M as the PI).

Publications: 195 papers in journals (78) and conferences (117), including four best paper or best

conference paper awards. H-index 28, i10-index 51.

Advising: advising 12 PhD students, 5 MS students, 2 postdocs; graduated 7 PhDs (one is assistant

professor in US), 43 MS (19 with thesis & 24 with projects); mentored 140+ BS, and 10 high school

students (5 subsequently admitted to MIT/Harvard).

Services: Technical editor of IEEE-ASME T. on Mechatronics, Associate editor of IFAC journal

Mechatronics, Associate editor of ASME J. Vibration and Acoustics. Technical committees:

mechatronics (TC chair), vehicle design (vice TC chair), vibration and sound, energy harvesting.

Research Interests

Energy Harvesting, Mechatronic System Design, Clean Energy Manufacturing, Marine and

Hydrokinetic Energy, Vibration and Control, Vehicle Dynamics, Smart Materials and

Structures, Thermoelectric Materials, Advanced Sensors

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Mechanical Engineering PhD, 02/2005

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Electrical Engineering MS, 02/2002

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Mechanical Engineering MS, 02/2002

Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Automotive Engineering BS, 07/1997

Lei Zuo’s Funded Energy Harvesting Research: from mW to MW

mailto:[email protected]


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Experience

08/2014-Present Professor (07/2017—) and Associate Professor (08/2014-06/2017)

John R. Jones III Faculty Fellow, 2016-2021

Dept. of Mechanical Eng., and Dept. of Electrical Computer Eng. (by courtesy)

Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA

2018-2014 Assistant Professor (09/2008-09/2013), Associate Professor (10/2013 -

08/2014, early tenure promotion), Adjunct Associate Professor and Adjunct

Professor (08/2014 - Present), Dept. of Mechanical Engineering

State University of New York at Stony Brook, NY

2004-2008 Senior Research Scientist (11/2004-12/2007) and Associate Research

Investigator (1/2008-8/2008), Department Automation Engineering

Abbott Laboratories, North Chicago, IL

2002-2002 Research Intern, Department of Mechanical Dynamics GE Global Research Center, Niskayuna, NY 1999-2004 Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, MA

Research Funding ($10,595,728 as PI or co-PI since 09/2008, $9.1M as the PI, my share $7M.)

1) Competitive Federal Grants (Total $7,881,435)

Active federal projects

# Agency Title PI and co-PI Period Funding

1 DOE Ocean Wave Energy Harvesting Lei Zuo (PI), R. Parker, K. Ngo

03/2016-02/2019

$2,000,000

2 NSF GOALI: Energy Efficient and Reliable Motion Mechanism for Ocean Wave Energy

Lei Zuo (PI) 09/2014-08/2018 (extension)

$300,000

3 NSF Phase II IUCRC Virginia Tech: Center for Energy Harvesting Materials and Systems

M. Hajj (PI), L. Zuo (30%), S. Priya, D. Ha, S. Shahab

08/2017-07/2022

$500,000

4 DOE Self-powered Wireless Through-wall Data Communication for Nuclear Environments

Lei Zuo (PI) H. Zhang, R. Kisner, D. Ha

10/2016-09/2019

$1,000,000

5 NSF GOALI: Collaborative Research: Energy harvesting nanorods-enhanced MEMS


$150,000

0500,000

1,000,0001,500,0002,000,0002,500,0003,000,0003,500,0004,000,0004,500,000

2008-2009 2010-2011 2012-2013 2014-2015 2016-2017

Funding in Every Two Annual Years ($) as PI or co-PI


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temperature-insensitive gas sensor for combustion monitoring and control

6 NSF NeTS: Small: Long-range Ocean Communication Links Powered by Energy Harvesting

Yaling Yang (PI) Lei Zuo (33%), M. Manteghi

10/2015-09/2017

$200,000

7 DOE Self-powered Wireless Dual-mode Langasite Sensor for Pressure/Temperature Monitoring of Nuclear Reactors

Lei Zuo (PI), H. Zhang, J. Lian

02/2014-02/2018

$800,000

8 NSF GOALI/Collaborative Research: Self-powered Dual-mode Piezoelectric Resonant Pressure/ Temperature Sensors for Oil and Gas Field Explorations

Lei Zuo (PI) 09/2013-08/2018

$190,000

9 NSF IDBR: Development of Ultrasensitive, Superfast, and Microliter-Volume Differential Scanning Nanocalorimeter for Direct Characterization of Biomolecular Interactions


$300,000

10 DOT/ UTRC-II

Mitigation of Transportation Induced Vibration Using Seismic Metamaterials (SBU)

Lifeng Wang (PI) , Lei Zuo (20%)

10/2016-12/2017

$50,000

Completed federal projects

11 US Army

Energy Harvesting Backpack Lei Zuo (PI) 05/2016-6/2017

$169,277

12 EPA Ocean Wave Energy Harvester with a Novel Power Takeoff Mechanism

Lei Zuo (PI) 08/2013-8/2016

$105,000

13 NSF REU Supplement for GOALI: Energy Efficient and Reliable Motion Mechanism for Ocean Wave Energy Harvesting

Lei Zuo (PI) Summer 2016

$10,000

14 NSF Vibration Control of Tall Buildings using Electricity Generating Tuned Mass Dampers

Lei Zuo (PI) 09/2010-08/2015

$260,000

15 NSF-DOE

NSF/DOE Thermoelectrics Partnership: Integrated Design and Manufacturing of Cost-Effective and Industrial-Scalable TEG for Vehicle Applications

Lei Zuo (PI) J J. Longtin, S. Sampth, Q. Li and BLi

10/2010-09/2015

$530,535

16 NSF REU Supplement for GOALI: Energy Efficient and Reliable Motion Mechanism for Ocean Wave Energy Harvesting

Lei Zuo (PI) Summer 2015

$4,000

17 DOE Thermoelectric-Driven Sustainable Sensing and Actuation Systems for Fault-Tolerant Nuclear Incidents

J Longtin (PI), Lei Zuo (25%), Hwang, M.K. Chyu

10/2012-09/2015

$599,802


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18 DOE DOE NEUP fellowship To Zuo’s Student Jackson Klein

06/1016-05/2017

$50,000

19 ONR High-Power-Density Portable Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters (SBU changed the PI when I moved to VT and this project thus lost my control.)

Lei Zuo ( sole PI at SBU 63%), T. Xu (at NIA 27%)

02/2014-02/2017

$556,356

20 DOT On-road Energy Harvesting for Traffic Monitoring

Lei Zuo (PI), X. Ban

2012-2014

$50,000

21 DOT Energy Harvesting from Railway Track Vibrations

Lei Zuo (PI) 2011-2013

$50,000

22 DOT Faculty Development Minigrant Award Lei Zuo (PI) 2011-2012

$6,465

2) Competitive State-Level Grants (Total $1,465,766)

Active state-level projects

1 CRCF Ocean Wave Energy Harvesting Lei Zuo (PI), Ngo, Parker

7/2016-6/2018

$100,000

2 CRCF Railroad Energy Harvesting System Lei Zuo (PI ) 7/2016-6/2018

$100,000

3 CRCF Ultra-High Energy Efficiency Footwear Power Generators

T. Xu (PI), L Zuo (co-PI,40%)

7/2016-10/2017

$100,000

Completed state-level projects

4 CRCF Energy-Harvesting Controllable Vehicle Suspensions

Lei Zuo (PI), Ngo, Southward, Corina, Ahmadian

07/2015-3/2017

$100,000

5 Power Bridge NY

Electromagnetic Railway Energy Harvester

Lei Zuo (PI), 04/2014-4/2016

$150,000

6 NYSERDA Development and Commercialization of Energy-Harvesting Controllable Suspension Systems

Lei Zuo (PI) 2013-2016

$249,914

7 NYSERDA Energy Harvesting from Railway Vibration for Trackside Electrification

Lei Zuo (PI) 2012-2015

$187,651

8 NYSERDA Innovative Manufacturing Approach to Fabricate Thermoelectric Devices Directly onto Waste Heat Components

Jon Longtin (PI), Lei Zuo (25%), and D.Hwang

2012-2013

$100,000

9 NYSERDA Vehicle Thermoelectric Energy Recovery: Assessment of Waste Heat Sources

Lei Zuo (PI), Longtin, and Sampath

2011-2012

$50,000

10 NYSERDA Regenerative Shock Absorbers for Energy Harvesting from Vehicle Suspensions

Lei Zuo (PI) 2009-2012

$81,000


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11 SUNY/RF Energy-Harvesting Speed Bump Lei Zuo (PI) 2014-2014

$7,000

12 SUNY/RF Innovative Power Takeoff for Ocean Wave Energy Harvesting

Lei Zuo (PI), X. Wang and B. Warkentine

2013-2014

$100,000

13 SUNY/RF Technology Commercialization of Vibration Energy Harvesting for Transportation

Lei Zuo (PI) 2011-2014

$140,201

3) International Funding (Total US$46,600)

1 NSF China

Technology and Innovation of One-way Rotating Electromagnetic Vibration Energy Harvester for Railroad

Lei Zuo (PI) 01/2017-12/2018

¥180,000

2 Tsinghua Univ.

Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting from Vehicle Exhaust Heat

Lei Zuo (PI) 2014-2015

¥100,000

4) Industry Funding (Total $594,269)

Active industry projects

1 Abbvie Inc

Development of high throughput miniaturized calorimeter for pharmaceutical R&D

Lei Zuo (PI, 100%)

05/2015-05/2018

$258,176

2 CRRC Yangtze

Vibration Energy Harvester for Railcar Lei Zuo (PI, 100%)

02/2016-02/2018

$124,000

3 Ford Energy Regeneration and Damper Control Using Energy-Harvesting Absorbers

Lei Zuo (PI, 100%)

2012-2017

$25,000

Completed industry projects

5 Crystal Instrum.

Vibration Control and Dynamic Analyzer (Equipment)

Lei Zuo (PI, 100%)

02/2015 $40,000

6 Abbott MED64 microelectrdoe array system (Equipment)

Lei Zuo (PI, 100%)

01/2014 $100,000

7 Electric Truck

Energy harvesting from rail tracks (cash) Lei Zuo (PI, 100%)

08/2010-072012

$47,093

5) Campus Grants (not including startup) (Total $608,258, my share $380,981)

Active campus projects

1 ICATS ERC planning initiative

ERC for Data Analytics for the Design, Modeling and Monitoring of Physical Systems

Hajj (PI), Ramakrishnan,

Zuo, et

12/2016-12/2017

$60,000

2 VT, SEC, ICAT, ICATS,

Smart Drill Field: Energy Harvesting and Lighting

Hajj, McGrath, Zuo (30%), Ishida, Kennedy

03/2016-12/2017

$96,000


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3 ICTAS energy& materials initiative

Smart Building and Smart City Rahman, Zuo (20%), Little, Dhillon, Kuzlu

05/2016-12/2017

$50,000

Completed campus projects

3 SBU-BNL

Thermoelectric Waste Heat Recovery, 2011 SBU BNL Seed Grant (Competitive)

Lei Zuo (PI)), Longtin, and Sampath

2011-2013

$60,000

4 SBU-BNL

Ocean Wave Energy Harvesting, 2013 SBU BNL Seed Grant (Competitive)

Lei Zuo (PI), X Wang, and Butcher

2013-2014

$40,000

5 SBU OVPR

Research cash match from SBU OVPR, for the project funded by NSF/DOE Thermoelectrics Partnership

Lei Zuo (PI), Longtin, and Sampath

2010-2013

$100,258

6 SBU Energy

Equipment Fund from SBU Advanced Energy Research and Technology Center

Lei Zuo (PI) 2011-2012

$180,000

7 SBU OVPR

Research cash match from SBU OVPR, for project funded by SUNY TAF “ Vibration Energy Harvesting for Transportations

Lei Zuo (PI) 2012-2014

$16,000

8 SBU VP Admin.

Speed Bump Energy Harvesting, support from SBU Sr. VP of Administration,

Lei Zuo (PI)) 2011-2012

$6,000

6) Other International Grants (as a participating investigator without budget for me)

1 NSF China

Theoretical and experimental study of regenerative/active electrohydraulic radial bogie (General program)

Lin Xu at Wuhan U of Tech (PI)

2017-2019

¥800,000

2 Australian Research Council

A novel direct drive linear tube generator for ocean wave energy conversion (Discovery project)

Xu Wang at RMIT (PI)

2017-2019

$490,000

3 NSF China

Distributed dynamic vibration absorbers for the noise and vibration reduction of lightweight structures

Yu Du at Dalian U of Tech (PI)

2014-2016

¥800,000

Honors and Awards

ASME Leonardo Da Vinci Award, 08/2017 (For “eminent achievement in the design or invention of a product which is universally recognized as an important advance in machine design”)

2017 ASME Best Paper Award in Vibration, ASME Dynamic System and Control Division Vibration Technical Committee, 10/2017

“Outstanding Performance in Externally Sponsored Research in 2016-2017”, Mechanical Engineering Department, Virginia Tech, 10/2017

ASME Fellow, Selected in 2016


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“Inventor of the Month”, Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, July 206

“Scholar of the Week”, recognized by the Virginia Tech office of the Vice President for Research, 04/2016

2016 R&D 100 Award Finalists, by R&D Magazine, for Multistage Force Amplification Piezoelectric Energy Harvester.

“Good Vibrations: Spotlight on Innovation of Lei Zuo”, Highlight on the homepage of Virginia Tech, 12/2015.

2015 R&D 100 Green Technology Special Recognition Award, by R&D Magazine, for the 100 most significant technology innovations of the year in the word, “ocean wave energy harvester”, 11/2015

2015 ASME Thar Energy Design Award, for “Pioneering research in energy engineering, especially at large energy scale”, Aug 2015

2015 R&D 100 Award Finalists, by R&D Magazine, for work on railway energy harvesting.

2015 Winner of Best Technology Development of Energy Harvesting, by the Energy Harvesting & Storage USA 2015 conference, Nov 18-19, 2015, Santa Clara, CA. for ”Force magnification piezoelectric energy harvester”

2014 Winner of Best Technology Development of Large-Scale Energy Harvesting, by the Energy Harvesting & Storage USA 2014 conference, Nov 20-21, 2014, Santa Clara, CA. for ”Ocean Wave Energy Harvesting”

2014 ASME Best Paper Award in Structures and Structural Dynamics, ASME Branch on Adaptive Structures and Material Systems, 09/2014 (for the paper “Energy-Harvesting Shock Absorber with a Mechanical Motion Rectifier”, Smart Materials and Structures, Vol 22, n2, 2013)

2014 SAE Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award, by SAE International, “in reorganization of significant contributions to teaching, research, and student development”, April 2014

2014 EPA P3 Award, Environmental Protection Agency, April 2014

Best Student Paper Award, by ASME Design Engineering Division Vehicle Design Technical Committee, for the paper "Equivalent circuit modeling of vehicle dynamics with energy harvesting shock absorbers" by Peng Li and Lei Zuo at the 15th International Conference on Advanced Vehicle Technologies (08/2013)

Best Student Paper Award, by ASME Design Engineering Division Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications Technical Committee, for the paper “High efficiency electromagnetic energy harvester for railroad application" by John Wang, Teng Lin, and Lei Zuo at the 9th ASME/IEEE International Conference on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications (MESA 2013) (08/2013)

Invited Keynote Speaker, 2013 SAE World Congress, “Energy Harvesting Controllable Suspensions”, April 16-18, Detroit, MI (04/16/2013)

2012 Winner of Best Application of Energy Harvesting, by the Energy Harvesting & Storage USA 2012 conference, Nov 7-8, 2012, Washington DC. For “Railroad Energy Harvester”

Congressional Recognition: “Congratulating Professor Lei Zuo”, by the US Congress Representative Tim Bishop in Congress House, CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Nov 27 2012

Finalist of Semi-Plenary Presentations, ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 10/2012

2011 R&D 100 Award by R&D Magazine, for the 100 most significant technology innovations of the year in the word, 07/2011, “Energy-Harvesting Shock Absorbers”

2011 Winner of Best Technology Development of Energy Harvesting, by the Energy Harvesting & Storage USA 2011 conference, Nov 15-16, 2011, Boston, MA (with T-B Xu), for “hybrid piezoelectric energy harvesting”

2010 Winner of Best Technology Development of Energy Harvesting, by the Energy Harvesting & Storage USA 2010 conference, Nov 16-17, 2010, Cambridge, MA.

Keynote Speaker, E2 - Energy Harvesting Technology Workshop, Hoboken, NJ, 12/07/2010


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Research Highlights at ASME Mechanical Engineering Magazine, MIT Technology Review, New York Times, Discovery News, PhysOrg, Newsday, TV 10/55, etc in 2010-2016

Press Releases about Lei Zuo’s research at Stony Brook News and SUNY Research Foundation in 2010, 2011, and 2012.

Paper selected into the 2010 Annual Journal Highlights of Smart Materials and Structures, 2011

Scientific Innovation Award by Abbott Laboratories (2 over thousand researchers), 2008

Best Paper Presentation Award in the Session, the American Control Conference, 2003

Hats-Off Award, General Electric Global Research Center, 2002

Outstanding Graduate Gold Medal of Class 1992-1997 (top 1% in the class),Tsinghua University

Research Grant from Tsinghua-Ford Foundation (RMB ¥2000, student sole PI), 1997

Procter & Gamble Fellowship, 1995-1996; Dec 9th Excellent Student Fellowship, 1994-1995; Takata Fellowship, 1993-1994, Tsinghua University

Outstanding Student Honors, Tsinghua University, 1994, 1995, 1996

Publications in Journals and Proceedings (78 in journals, 117 in conferences)

Journal papers published/accepted (78 total)

1. C Liang, L Zuo, “On the dynamics and design of a two-body wave energy converter”, Renewable Energy 101, 265-274, 2017

2. Liang, C., Ai, J., and Zuo, L., "Design, Fabrication, Simulation and Testing of an Ocean Wave Energy Converter with Mechanical Motion Rectifier", Ocean Engineering, 2017

3. Liu, Y., Xu, L., and Zuo, L., "Design, modeling, lab and field Tests of a mechanical-motion-rectifier-based energy harvester using a ball-screw mechanism", IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 2017

4. Guo, S., Xu, L., Liu, Y., Guo, X., and Zuo, L., “Modeling, Experiments, and Performances Analysis of Hydraulic Electromagnetic Shock Absorber”, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 2017

5. Hongjip Kim, Wei-Che Tai, Shengxi Zhou, and Lei Zuo, “Stochastic resonance energy harvesting for a rotating shaft subject to random and periodic vibrations: influence of potential function asymmetry and frequency-sweep", Smart Materials and Structures, 2017

6. Jackson Klein, Lei Zuo, Design and Experimental Study of a Velocity Amplified Electromagnetic Vibration Energy Harvester, Smart Materials and Structures, 2017

7. Zhengbao Yang, Yan Qing Wang, Lei Zuo and Jean Zu, Introducing arc-shaped piezoelectric elements into energy harvesters, Energy Conversion and Management, 148, 260-266, 2017.

8. Wei Che Tai, Lei Zuo, On the optimization condition for energy harvesting from base vibration, Journal of Sound and Vibration, 2017

9. Yifan Luo, Hongxin Sun, Xiuyong Wang, Ning Che, and Lei Zuo, Wind induced vibration control and energy-harvesting of electromagnetic resonant shunt tuned mass-damper-inerter damper for building structures, Shock and Vibration, 2017

Citations per year (11/10/2017)


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10. Hongxin Sun, Yifan Luo, Xiuyong Wang. Lei Zuo, Seismic control of a SDOF structure through

electromagnetic resonant shunt tuned mass-damper-inerter and the exact H2 optimal

solutions, Journal of VibroEngineering, 2017. 11. Shuyu Wang, Shifeng Yu, Peter Ihnat, Dana Filoti, Ming Lu, Lei Zuo, “A power compensated

differential scanning calorimeter for protein stability characterization”, Sensors & Actuators: B. Chemical, 2017

12. Shuyu Wang, Shifeng Yu, Ming Lu, Lei Zuo. Microfabrication of plastic-PDMS microfluidic devices using polyimide release layer and selective adhesive bonding, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, 2017

13. Zuo, L., Yu, S, Briggs, C., Kantor, S., and Pan, J., “Design and fabrication of a 3-d multi-electrode array for neuron electrophysiology”, ASME Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, 2017

14. Shifeng Yu, Shuyu Wang, Ming Lu, Lei Zuo. Review of MEMS Differential Scanning Calorimetry for Biomolecular Study, Frontiers of Mechanical Engineering, 2017

15. Yanyu Chen, Feng Qian, Lei Zuo, Fabrizio Scarpa, and Lifeng Wang, " Broadband and Multiband Vibration Mitigation in Lattice Metamaterials with Sinusoidally-Shaped Ligaments", Extreme Mechanics Letters, 2017

16. Yongjia Wu, Jackson Klein, Hanchen Zhou, Lei Zuo, “Thermal and Fluid Analysis of Dry Cask Storage Containers over Multiple Years of Service”, Annals of Nuclear Energy, Feb 2018 (available online 2017)

17. Shifeng Yu, Shuyu wang, Ming Lu, and Lei Zuo, "Semiconductor-metal phase transition study of VOx thin film grown on sapphire substrate", Journal of Applied Physics, accepted

18. Yalu Pei, Yilun Liu, Lei Zuo, Multi-resonant Electromagnetic Shunt in Base Isolation for Vibration Damping and Energy Harvesting, Journal of Sound and Vibration, acceptable with minor revision

19. WeiChe Tai and Lei Zuo, “On improvement of operation bandwidth of nonlinear vibration-based energy harvesters using a mechanical motion rectifier”, ASME Journal of Vibration and Acoustics, accepted with minor revision

20. Feng Qian, Tianbing Xu, Lei Zuo, “A distributed-parameter model for the piezoelectric stack harvester subjected to general periodic and random excitations”, Engineering Structures, accepted with minor revision

21. L. Wang, S. Chen, W. Zhou, T.B. Xu, L. Zuo, “A Novel Piezoelectric Energy Harvester with Two-stage Force Magnification Frames” Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, DOI: 10.1177/1045389X16667551, 2017 (available online 2016)

22. S Yu, S Wang, M Lu, L Zuo, A novel polyimide based micro heater with high temperature uniformity, Sensors and Actuators A: Physical 257, 58-64, 2017 (Available online 2016)

23. Wang, S. Yu, S., Lu, M., L. Zuo, “Atomic Layer-Deposited Titanium-Doped Vanadium Oxide Thin Films and Their Thermistor Applications”, Journal of Electronic Materials, 2017 (available online 2016)

24. "Micro-differential scanning calorimeter for liquid biological samples", Wang, S., Yu, S., Ihnat, P.,Filoti, D., Lu, M., and Zuo, L., Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol 10, 2016.

25. “Mixed Skyhook and PDD: A New low-jerk semi-active suspension control strategy based on power flow analysis”, Yilun Liu and Lei Zuo, ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, Vol 138, n8, 2016.

26. “A computation-efficient framework for the integrated design of mechanical structures and controllers.”, Yilun Liu and Lei Zuo, ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, Vol 138 n9, 2016

27. “Exact H2 Optimal Tuning and Experimental Verification of Energy-Harvesting Series Electromagnetic Tuned-Mass Dampers”, Yilun Liu, Jason Paker, C-C Lin, Lei Zuo, ASME Journal of Vibration and Acoustics, Vol 138, 2016.

28. “An Electromagnetic Speed Bump Energy Harvester and Its Interactions With Vehicles”, Lirong Wang, Prakhar Todaria, Abhishek Pandey, and Lei Zuo, IEEE Transactions on Mechatronics, Vol 21, n4, 2016


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29. "Broadband Pendulum Energy Harvester", Changwei Liang, You, Wu; Lei, Zuo. Smart Materials and Structures, Vol 25, n9, 2016

30. “Performances and Parameter Sensitivity of Energy-Harvesting Shock Absorbers on Various

Types of Vehicles”, Sijing Guo, Lin Xu，Yilun Liu， Xuexun Guo ，Lei Zuo, Vehicle System

Dynamics, Vol 54, n7, 2016 31. “Design, modeling and optimization of an on-pipe thermoelectric generator”, Jie Chen, Lei Zuo,

Yongjia Wu, Jackson Klein, Energy Conversion and Management, vol 122, 2016 32. “Analysis of contributions of nonlinear material constants to temperature-induced velocity

shifts of quartz surface acoustic wave resonators”, Haifeng Zhang, John Kosinski, and Lei Zuo, Ultrasonics, Vol 71, pp189–193, 2016

33. “Influences of Electromagnetic Regenerative Shock Absorbers on Vehicle Suspension Performances”, Peng Li and Lei Zuo, Journal of Automotive Engineering (Part D of the Proceedings of the IMechE), 2016.

34. “Analytical solutions to H2 and H∞ optimization of resonant shunted electromagnetic tuned mass damper and vibration energy harvester”, X. Tang, Y. Liu and L. Zuo, ASME Journal of Vibration and Acoustics, Vol 138, n1, 2016

35. "A model to analyze the device level performance of thermoelectric generator", Yongjia Wu, Lei Zuo, Jie Chen, Jackson Klein. Energy, DOI 10.1016/j.energy.2016.09.044, September 2016,

36. "Micro-differential scanning calorimeter for liquid biological samples", S Wang, S Yu, M Siedler, P Ihnat, D Filoti, M Lu, and L Zuo, Review of Scientific Instruments, DOI:10.1063/1.4965443, 2016

37. “A Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting System for Powering Wireless Sensors in Nuclear Power Plants”, J Chen, J Klein, Y Wu, S Xing, R Flammang, M Heibel, and Lei Zuo, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2016.2606090, Vol 99, Sept 2016

38. “Design and Fabrication of Differential Scanning NanoCalorimeter”, Lei Zuo, Xiaoming Chen, Shifeng Yu, and Ming Lu, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, 2016.

39. “Vibration and Wave Propagation Attenuation for Metamaterials by Periodic Piezoelectric Arrays with High-Order Resonant Circuit Shunts”, Wanlu Zhou, You Wu, Lei Zuo, Smart Materials and Structures, Vol 24, n6, 2015

40. “All-Wheel Braking Force Allocation During Braking-in-Turn Maneuver for Vehicle with Brake-by-Wire System Considering Braking Efficiency and Stability”, Lei Zhang, Liangyao Yu, Zhizhong Wang, Lei Zuo, Jian Song, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, v65, 2015.

41. “Thermoelectric Properties of dc-Sputtered Filled Skutterudite Thin Film”, Gaosheng Fu, Lei Zuo, Jie Chen, Ming Lu and Liangyao Yu, Journal of Applied Physics, Vol 117, n12, 2015

42. “Ion Beam Irradiation Effect on Thermoelectric Properties of Bi2Te3 and Sb2Te3 Thin Films“, Gaosheng Fu, Lei Zuo, Jie Lian, Yongqiang Wang, Jie Chen, Jon Longtin and Zhigang Xiao, Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, B, Vol 358m 2015

43. "Thermoelectric Device Fabrication using Thermal Spray and Laser Micromachining”, M. Tewolde, G. Fu, D. Hwang, L. Zuo, S. Sampath, and J. Longtin, Journal of Thermal Spray Technology, Vol 25, n3, 2015 (JTST Best Paper Honorable Mention)

44. “A Self-Powered Piezoelectric Vibration Control System with Switch Pre-Charged Inductor (SPCI) Method”, W. Zhou and L. Zuo, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 2014

45. "Thermoelectric Properties of Magnesium Silicide Deposited using Atmospheric Plasma Thermal Spray", G. Fu, L. Zuo, J. Longtin, C. Nie, Y. Chen, M. Tewolde and S. Sampath, Journal of Electronic Materials, 2014

46. “Design and Optimization of Tubular Linear Electromagnetic Vibration Energy Harvesters”, X. Tang. T. Lin, and L. Zuo, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 2014 (cited 53 times)

47. “Large-scale Vibration Energy Harvesting” L. Zuo and X. Tang, Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, Vol 24 no 11, 2013 (cited 116 times in Google Scholar)


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48. “Energy-Harvesting Shock Absorber with a Mechanical Motion Rectifier”, Z. Li, L. Zuo, J. Kuang, and G.Luhrs, Smart Materials and Structures, Vol 22, n2, 2013 (ASME Best paper award in Structures and Structural Dynamics, cited 111 times in Google Scholar)

49. "Energy Harvesting, Ride Comfort, and Road Handling of Regenerative Vehicle Suspensions”, L. Zuo and P. Zhang, ASME Journal of Vibration and Acoustics, v135, 2013. (cited 135 times in Google Scholar, Top 10 most cited paper in the past two years in JVA)

50. “Electromagnetic Energy-Harvesting Shock Absorbers: Design, Modeling and Road Tests”, Z. Li, L. Zuo, et al., IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol62, 2013 (cited 135 times in Google Scholar)

51. "Energy Harvesting Using a PZT Ceramic Multilayer Stack", T. Xu, E. Siochi, J Kang, L. Zuo, W. Zhou, X. Tang, and X. Jiang, Smart Materials and Structures, 2013 (cited 62 times on Google Scholar)

52. “Dual-Functional Energy Harvesting and Vibration Control: Electromagnetic Resonant Shunt Series Tuned Mass Damper”, L. Zuo and W. Cui, ASME J. of Vibration and Acoustics, 2013

53. “Fabrication of Thermoelectric Devices Using Thermal Spray: Application to Vehicle Exhaust Systems to Improve Fuel Economy”, J. Longtin, L. Zuo, et al., Journal of Thermal Spray Technology, 2013.

54. "Thermoelectric Properties of Magnesium Silicide Fabricated using Vacuum Plasma Thermal Spray", G. Fu, L. Zuo, J. Longtin, C. Nie, R. Gambino, Journal of Applied Physics,v114, 2013

55. “An Efficient Vibration Energy Harvester with Multi-Mode Dynamic Magnifier”, W. Zhou, G.R. Penamalli and L. Zuo, Smart Materials and Structures, Vol 21, 2012 (top 10% downloaded article in all the journals of the publisher, cited 98 times in Google Scholar)

56. “Simultaneous Energy Harvesting and Vibration Control of Structures with Tuned Mass Damper”, X. Tang and L. Zuo, J. of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, vol 23, 2012 (cited 50 times in Google Scholar)

57. "Vibration Energy Harvesters under Random Force and Motion Excitations ", X. Tang and L. Zuo, Smart Materials and Structures, Vol 21, 2012

58. “Sensitivity-Enhanced Admittance-Based Structure Health Monitoring using A Higher-Order Resonant Circuit”, W. Zhou and L. Zuo, Smart Materials and Structures, Vol 21, 2012

59. "Enhanced Vibration Energy Harvesting using Dual-Mass Systems", X. Tang and L. Zuo, Journal of Sound and Vibration, Vol 330, pp5199–5209, 2011. (Top 10 most downloaded articles of the journal in Dec 2011, cited 114 times in Google Scholar)

60. "A New Type of Eddy Current Damper with Increased Energy Density," L Zuo, X. Chen, S. Nayfeh, ASME Journal of Vibration and Acoustics, vol 133, Aug 2011 (The most downloaded article of the journal in April 2011, cited 46 times in Google Scholar.)

61. “Design and Characterization of an Electromagnetic Energy Harvester for Vehicle Suspensions,” L. Zuo, B. Scully, J. Shestani, and Y. Zhou, Smart Materials and Structures, Vol 19 n4, 2010. (Highlighted as a feature story at the PhysOrg on March 17th 2010; Selected to be part of Smart Materials and Structures Annual Journal Highlights of 2010, cited 203 times in Google Scholar)

62. “Effective and Robust Vibration Control using Series Multiple Tuned Mass Dampers,” Lei Zuo, Transactions of the ASME, Journal of Vibration and Acoustics, vol 131, n3, 2009 (The most downloaded article of the journal in April and May 2009, cited 80 times)

63. Lei Zuo and Samir Nayfeh, H2 Optimal Control of Disturbance-Delayed Systems with Application the Vehicle Suspensions, Vehicle System Dynamics, v 45, 2007, pp 233-247.

64. Lei Zuo and Samir Nayfeh, The Two-Degree-of-Freedom Tuned-Mass Damper for Suppression of Single-Mode Vibration under Random and Harmonic Excitation, Transactions


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of the ASME, Journal of Vibration and Acoustics, v 128, n1, 2006, pp 56-65. (Top 10 most downloaded articles of the journal in September 2006, cited 66 times in Google Scholar)

65. Lei Zuo and Samir Nayfeh, Optimization of the Individual Stiffness and Damping Parameters in Multiple-Tuned-Mass-Damper Systems, Transactions of the ASME, Journal of Vibration and Acoustics, v127 n1, 2005, pp 77-83. (cited 111 times in Google Scholar)

66. Lei Zuo, Jean-Jacques Slotine and Samir Nayfeh, Model Reaching Adaptive Control for Vibration Isolation, IEEE Transaction on Control System Technology,v13,2005, pp611-617. (cited 42 times in Google Scholar)

67. Lei Zuo and Jean-Jacques Slotine, Robust Vibration Isolation via Frequency-Shaped Sliding Control and Modal Decomposition, Journal of Sound and Vibration, v285, n4-5, 2005. (cited 38 times in Google Scholar)

68. Lei Zuo and Samir Nayfeh, Minimax Optimization of Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Tuned-Mass Dampers, Journal of Sound and Vibration, v272, 2004, pp 893-908. (cited 156 times)

69. Seismic Isolation Enhancements for Initial and Advanced LIGO, with R. Abbott, A. Adhikari, et al, Classic and Quantum Gravity, v21, 2004, pp 915-921. (cited 75 times)

70. Lei Zuo and Samir Nayfeh, Structured H2 Optimization of Vehicle Suspension Based on Multi Wheel Model, Vehicle System Dynamics, v40 n5, 2003, pp 351-371. (cited 91 times)

71. Lei Zuo and Samir Nayfeh, Low-Order Continuous-Time Filters for Approximation of ISO 2631 Human-Vibration Sensitive Curves, Journal of Sound and Vibration, v265 n2, 2003, (cited 83 times in Google Scholar)

72. “Thermoelectric Materials and Thermal Spray Processing for Vehicle Waste Heat Recovery”, L Zuo, G. Fu, and L. Yu, Journal of Automotive Safety and Energy, 2016

73. Assessment of Ride Comfort and Braking Performance Using Energy-Harvesting Shock Absorber”, Liangyao Yu, Shuhao Huo, WenWei Xuan, Lei Zuo, SAE International Journal of Passenger Cars - Mechanical Systems, 2015

74. "Assessment of Vehicle Performances with Energy-Harvesting Shock Absorbers", P. Li and L. Zuo, SAE International Journal of Passenger Cars- Mechanical Systems, vol 6, n1, 2013.

75. “Dynamics and control of ocean wave energy converters”, J. Xie and L. Zuo, International Journal of Dynamics and Control, vol 1 n3, 2013

76. Z. Fang, X. Guo, J. Zhang, L. Zuo, Potential study and sensitivity analysis of energy-regenerative suspension, Journal of Jiangsu University, vol 34 n4, 2013 (in Chinese)

77. Z. Fang, X. Guo, L. Zuo, L. Xu, H. Zhang, Theory and experiment of damping characteristics of hydraulic electromagnetic energy-regenerative shock absorber, Journal of Jilin University, 44(4), 2014, pp 939-945 (in Chinese)

78. Lei Zuo, Xiaomin Lian, Xuegang Ban, and Xiaoyu Jiang Development of DDS-based Arbitrary Waveform Generator PC-Compatible Card with Double RAMs, Journal of Tsinghua University, v39 n2, 1999, pp 90-93,97 (in Chinese)

Working papers submitted to journals

1. Xiuxing Yin, ChienAn Chen, Xiaofan Li, and Lei Zuo, "Dynamic Characteristics and Test Results of a Wave Power Take-off System with Mechanical Motion Rectification and Transmission", IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics, in revision.

2. ChienAn Chen, Lei Zuo, Khai Nog, Dynamic Equivalent Circuit for Irregular-Wave- to-Wire Simulation, IEEE Trans. On Industrial Electronics, submitted

3. Lin, T., Wang, J., and Zuo, L., “Efficient Electromagnetic Energy Harvester for Railroad Transportation”, Mechatronics, in revision

4. Teng Lin, Yu Pan, Shikui Chen, and Lei Zuo, "Modelling and field testing of an electromagnetic energy harvester for rail tracks with anchorless mounting", Applied Energy, submitted


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5. Mingyi Liu, Shengxi Zhou, Rui Lin, Brook Kennedy, Muhammad Hajj, Lei Zuo, “Design, simulation and experiment of a novel high efficiency energy harvesting paver”, Applied Energy, in revision

6. Yongjia Wu, Shikui Chen, Jihui Yang, Lei Zuo, “Thermo-element geometry optimization for high thermoelectric efficiency”. Energy, in revision

7. Jose Cordova, Xin Wang, Dong-Liang Xie, Lei Zuo, Control of Communications-Dependent Cascading Failures in Power Grids, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, in revision

8. Tiankai Yao, Fengyuan Lu, Haifeng Zhang, Wei Ji, Lei Zuo and Jie Lian, Radiation-induced amorphization of Langasite La3Ga5SiO14, Journal of Nuclear Materials, in revision

9. Songxin Sun, Xiuyong Wang, Jian Peng, Lei Zuo, Exact H2 optimal solutions to inerter-based isolation systems for building structure, Applied Sciences, in revision

10. Yongjia Wu, Haifeng Zhang, Lei Zuo, "Thermoelectric energy harvesting for the gas turbine sensing and monitoring system ", Energy Conversion and Management, in revision

11. M. Krishnasamy, Feng Qian, T. R. Lenka, and Lei Zuo, “Distributed Parameter Models for Segmented Piezoelectric Harvesters to Prevent Charge Cancellation”, Solid State Electronics, in revision

12. Feng Qian, Shengxi Zhou, Lei Zuo, “A novel nonlinear structure with mechanically tunable potential function for energy harvesting enhancement”, Journal of Sound and Vibration, submitted

13. Shengxi Zhou and Lei Zuo, “Analytical investigation of broadband asymmetric tristable energy harvesters”, Nonlinear Dynamics, submitted

14. M Abdelkareem, L Xu, M Ali, A Elagouz, F Essa, J Mi, S Guo, Y Liu, L Zuo “Vibration Energy Harvesting in Automotive Suspension System: A Detailed Review”, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, submitted

Conference papers (117, * indicates peer reviewed conference papers)

2017

1. *Yalu Pei, Yilun Liu and Lei Zuo, Regenerative Based Isolation with Mutli-resonance Electromagnetic Shunt Dampers, 2017 ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference (DSCC), Oct 2017. Best Vibration Paper Award.

2. *Shenxi Zhou and Lei Zuo, Tristable Energy Harvesters with asymmetric potential wells: Analytical study, 2017 ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference (DSCC), Oct 2017.

3. *Xiuxing Yin, Xiaofan Li, Vicky Boontanom, Lei Zuo, "Dynamic characteristics and control strategy of a wave energy converter system based on dual ball screws and mechanical motion rectifier", 2017 ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference (DSCC), Oct 2017.

4. *Xiaofan Li, Changwei Liang, Jedhathai Boontanom, Lei Zuo, “Design, fabrication and testing of wave energy converters(WECs) using different power take-off with mechanical motion rectifier”, European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference, Ireland, Oct 2017

5. *Dillon Martin, Changwei Liang, Adam Wise, Lei Zuo, “Shape Optimization for the Submerged Body of a Two-Body Wave Energy Converter”, European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference, Ireland, Oct 2017

6. *Changwei Liang, Dillon Martin, Xiaofan Li, Adam Wise, Robert Parker, and Khai Ngo, Lei Zuo, “Dynamics and Power Absorption of a Self-react Wave Energy Converter with Mechanical Motion Rectifier" 2017 Marine Energy Technology Symposium (METS), Washington, April 2017

7. *Yu Pan , Fengwei Liu , Ruijin Jiang , Zhiwen Tu , Lei Zuo, "Design, Modeling and Lab Test For Railway Freight Vehicle Suspension Energy Harvester", ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC), Cleveland, Aug 2017

8. *Long Wu and Lei Zuo, “A Novel Performance Analysis Method for A Full Vehicle Suspension Based on Quarter Car Model”, ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC), Cleveland, Aug 2017


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9. *Yue Yuan, Mingyi Liu, Wei-Che Tai, Lei Zuo", Design and Experimental Studies of An Energy Harvesting Backpack With Mechanical Motion Rectification", ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC), Cleveland, Aug 2017

10. *Shifeng Yu, Shuyu Wang, Ming Lu and Lei Zuo, "Semiconductor to Metal Transition Study of Oxidized Vanadium Thin film", ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC), Cleveland, Aug 2017

11. *Yalu Pei, Lei Zuo, "Multi-resonant Electromagnetic Shunt Dampers for Vibration Suppression", ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC), Cleveland, Aug 2017

12. *Jia Mi, Lin Xu, Sijing Guo, Mohamed Abdelkareem, Lingshuai Meng, and Lei Zuo, The dimension Match and Parameters Setting of the Hydraulic Motor for the Hydro-electro-magnetic energy-regenerative shock absorber, ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC), Cleveland, Aug 2017

13. *Xianyao Ping, Gangfeng Tan, Lei Zuo, Fuel-efficient Driving of Commercial Vehicles on Mountainous Slopes, ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC), Cleveland, Aug 2017

14. Jianyong Zuo, Guo Hu, Tiefeng Zhao, Lei Zuo “Temperature Rise Real-time Measurement of Metro Tread Based on the Multi-Sensor Fusion and Online Compensation Method”, ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC), Cleveland, Aug 2017

15. Jackson Klein, and Lei Zuo, "Design and Experimental Study of a Velocity Amplified Electromagnetic Vibration Energy Harvester", SPIE Smart Structure Conferences, Portland, OR, March 2017

16. Hongjip Kim, Wei che Tai, Lei Zuo, "Stochastic resonance energy harvesting from general rotating shaft vibrations ", SPIE Smart Structure Conferences, Portland, OR, March 2017

17. Mingyi Liu, Wei Che Tai, Yue Yuan, Lei Zuo, "Nonlinear Spring Suspended Backpack Energy Harvester with Mechanical Motion Rectifier design to Increase Working Bandwidth", SPIE Smart Structure Conferences, Portland, OR, March 2017

18. Shaoxu xing, Isil Anakok, Lei Zuo, "Optimized MPPT-based converter for TEG energy harvester to power wireless sensor and monitoring system in nuclear power plant", SPIE Smart Structure Conferences, Portland, OR, March 2017

2016

19. * “Energy-Harvesting Shock Absorbers with Riding Comfort controller on Vehicle Suspension Systems”, Chien-An Chen, Khai Ngo, Lei Zuo ”, 2016 ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference (DSCC), Minneapolis, MN, 2016

20. * “Train-track-harvester System Modelling and In-field Testing for Railroad Energy Harvester”, 2016 ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference (DSCC), Minneapolis, MN, 2016

21. * “Modeling, Experiments, and Parameter Sensitivity Analysis of Hydraulic Electromagnetic Shock Absorber”, Sijing Guo, Lin Xu, Yilun Liu, Mingyi Liu, Xuexun Guo, Lei Zuo, ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC), Charlotte, NC, USA, 2016 (Finalist of Best Student Paper Award)

22. * “Design and Analysis Of a Two-Body Wave Energy Converter With Mechanical Motion Rectifier”, Xiaofan Li, Changwei Liang and Lei Zuo, 2016 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference (IDETC), Charlotte, NC, USA, 2016

23. * “A Large-scale On-Road Energy Harvester from Highway Vibration”, L.R. Wang, W. Jin, W. Zhou, L. Zuo, 2016 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference (IDETC), Charlotte, NC, USA, 2016

24. * “TEG cold side heat exchanger analysis for harvesting the exhaust heat energy”, Gangfeng Tan, Kangping Ji, Xuexun Guo, Mengying Yang, Lei Zuo, 2016 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference (IDETC), Charlotte, NC, USA,2016

25. * “On The Dynamics and Design of A Two-body Wave Energy Converter”, C Liang and L Zuo, Motion and Vibration Control Conference (MOVIC), Southampton, UK, 2016


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26. * “Design, modelling and experimental characterization of a novel regenerative shock absorber with a ball-screw-based mechanical motion rectifier”, Y. Liu, X. Lin, L. Zuo, Submitted to the 14th Motion and Vibration Control Conference (MOVIC), Southampton, UK, 2016

27. * “Review of mechanical system design via decentralized control techniques”, Y. Liu and L. Zuo, International Symposium on Flexible Automation, Cleveland, Ohio, 2016

28. “Wave Energy Converter with Mechanical Motion Rectifier”, Changwei Liang, Xiaofan Li, Lin Xu Junxiao Ai and Lei Zuo, 2016 Marine Energy Technology Symposium (METS), Washington DC, April 2016

29. “Exact H2 optimal tuning and experimental verification of energy-harvesting series electromagnetic tuned mass dampers”, Yilun Liu, Lei Zuo, CC Lin, and Jason Parker, SPIE Smart Structures and Materials/NDE, Las Vegas, March 20-14, 2016

30. “Dynamics of energy harvesting backpack with human being interaction”, Yue Yuan, Lei Zuo. SPIE Smart Structures and Materials/NDE, Las Vegas, March 20-14, 2016.

2015

31. * “Performances of Energy-Harvesting Shock Absorbers on Various Types of Vehicles”, Sijing Guo, Lin Xu, Yilun Liu, Xuexun Guo, Lei Zuo, ASME Dynamic System and Control Conference, 2015

32. * “Anchorless Design of Electromagnetic Vibration Energy Harvester for Railroad”, Teng Lin, Lirong Wang, and Lei Zuo, ASME Dynamic System and Control Conference, 2015

33. * “Integrated Structure and Controller Design of Mechanical System via Decentralized Control”, Yilun Liu and Lei Zuo, ASME Dynamic System and Control Conference, 2015

34. * “Vibration Energy harvesting System with Mechanical Motion Rectifier”, Changwei Liang, You Wu, and Lei Zuo, ASME Dynamic System and Control Conference, 2015

35. * “Design, Fabrication, Simulation and Testing of a Novel Ocean Wave Energy Converter”, Changwei Liang, Junxiao Ai and Lei Zuo, ASME Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference (MSEC 2015).

36. * “Damping characteristics of a hydraulic electric rectifier shock absorber and its effect on vehicle dynamics”, Lin Xu, Yilun Liu, Sijin Guo, Xuexun Guo, Lei Zuo, ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference (IDETC), 2015, Boston MA

37. * “Analysis of Torsional Vibration Piezoelectric Energy Harvester”, Wanlu Zhou, Patrick Musgrave, Lei Zuo, ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference (IDETC), 2015, Boston

38. * “On Design of Mechanical Metamaterials using Level-set Based Topology Optimization”, X. Wang, S. Chen, and L. Zuo, ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference (IDETC), 2015, Boston

39. * “A Novel Micro Heater Integrated on Flexible Polyimide Substrate with Fast Response and Uniform Temperature Distribution”, Shifeng Yu, Shuyu Wang, Ming Lu, and Lei Zuo, ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference (IDETC), 2015, Boston

40. * “Characterization of a Microfabricated Differential Scanning Calorimeter”, S. Wang, S. Yu and Lei Zuo, ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference (IDETC), 2015, Boston

41. “Optimal design of force magnification frame for piezoelectric multilayer stack energy harvester”, Shubin Chen, Lirong Wang, Wanlu Zhou, Patrick Musgrave, Tian-Bing Xu, and Lei Zuo, SPIE Smart Structure/NSF conference, March 8-12, 2015, San Diego

42. “Design, modelling, and road rest of speed bump energy harvester,” Prakhar Todaria, Lirong Wang, Abhishek Pandey, James O'Connor, David McAvoy, Terence Harrigan, Barbara Chernow, Lei Zuo, SPIE Smart Structure/NSF conference, March 8-12, 2015, San Diego

43. * “Assessment of Ride Comfort and Braking Performance Using Energy-harvesting Shock Absorber”, Liangyao Yu, Shuhao Huo, Wenwei Xuan, Lei Zuo, SAE 2015 World Congress, April 21-23, 2015, Detroit, MI

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44. * “MR Based Brake-by-wire System with Self-energizing and Brake Energy Harvesting Capability”, L. Yu, X. Liu, L. Ma, L. Zuo, and J. Song, 2014 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference (DETC), Aug 2014.

45. * “Broad-Band Pendulum Energy Harvester With Motion Regulation”, Y. Wu, W. Zhou, and L. Zuo, ASME Dynamic System and Control Conference, Oct 2014

46. *“Energy Harvesting From Building Seismic Isolation With Multimode Resonant Shunt Circuits, Mincan Cao and Lei Zuo, ASME Dynamic System and Control Conference, Oct 2014

47. *“Ocean Wave Energy Harvester with a Novel Power Takeoff Mechanism”, Junxiao Ai, Hwan Lee, Lei Zuo, 2014 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference (DETC), Aug 2014.

48. *“A self-reacting point absorber with a novel mechanical motion rectifier as PTO system”, C. Liang, J. Ai, and L. Zuo, ASME Dynamic System and Control Conference, Oct 2014

49. * “On the dynamics and design of a two-body ocean wave energy converter”, C. Liang and L. Zuo, the 12th Motion and Vibration Control Conference, Japan, Aug 2014

50. “Energy Delivery from Piezoelectric Structure to Resistive Load”, W. Zhou, T. Xu, L. Zuo, the 12th Motion and Vibration Control Conference, Japan, Aug 2014

51. * “Design and Fabrication of Flexible Differential Scanning Nanocalorimeter”, Jiancheng Yin, Shifeng Yu, Shuyu Wang, Ming Lu, and Lei Zuo, 2014 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference (DETC), Aug 2014.

52. * “Cantilever Beam Metamaterial Structure with Periodic Piezoelectric Arrays with High-Order Resonant Circuit Shunts for Vibration Control”, W. Zhou and L. Zuo, The ASME 2014 Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems (SMASIS2014), Sep. 2014

53. * “Parameters optimization to dual-functional electromagnetic Tuned Mass Dampers”, Y. Liu, CC Lin, L. Zuo, the 12th Motion and Vibration Control Conference, Japan, Aug 2014

54. * “Energy-Flow-Driven (EFD) Semi-active Suspension Control”, Yilun Liu and Lei Zuo, 2014 American Control Conference, June 2014.

55. * “Electromagnetic regenerative suspension system for ground vehicles”, P Li, L Zuo, J Lu, L Xu, 2014 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC), 2014

56. * “Self-Motivated Relay Selection for a Generalized Power Line Monitoring Network”, Jose Cordova and Xin Wang, Dong-Liang Xie, Lei Zuo, 2014 IEEE 11th International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems, 2014

57. * “Sensors for small modular reactors powered by thermoelectric generators”, M. Tewolde, etc, The ASME 2014 Small Modular Reactors Symposium (SMR2014), Washington DC.

58. “Semi-active controller design for vibration suppression and energy harvesting via LMI approach”, Yilun Liu, Chi-Chang Lin, Lei Zuo, 2014 SPIE Smart Structures and Materials Conference, March 2014

59. "Integration of regenerative shock absorber into vehicle electric system", Chongxiao Zhang, Peng Li, Junyoung Kim, Sha Lou, Sharanjit Singh, and Lei Zuo, 2014 SPIE Smart Structures and Materials Conference, March 2014

60. "A power electronics circuit for simultaneous semi-active vibration control and energy harvesting for electromagnetic regenerative suspensions", Peng Li, Lei Zuo, Chongxiao Zhang, 2014 SPIE Smart Structures and Materials Conference, March 2014

61. “Multi-source energy harvester for wildlife tracking”, You Wu and Lei Zuo, 2014 SPIE Smart Structures and Materials Conference, March 2014

In 2013

62. * “Model predictive control to the tuned mass damper energy harvesting system on the tall buildings”, Yilun Liu, Lei Zuo, Xiudong Tang, 2013 ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference (DSCC), 2013


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63. * “Ocean wave energy converters and control methodologies”, Jingjin Xie and Lei Zuo, 2013 ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference (DSCC), 2013

64. * "A novel piezoelectric multilayer stack energy harvester with force amplification", Wanlu Zhou, Lei Zuo, and Tain-Bing Xu, 2013 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference (IDETC), 2013

65. * "High efficiency electromagnetic energy harvester for railroad application", John Wang, Teng Lin, and Lei Zuo, 2013 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference (IDETC) (Best Student Paper Award)

66. * "Equivalent circuit modeling of vehicle dynamics with regenerative shock absorbers", Peng Li and Lei Zuo, 2013 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference (IDETC) (Best Student Paper Award)

67. * "Closed-form optimization of resonant shunted electromagnetic tuned mass dampers for vibration control and energy harvesting", Xiudong Tang, Lei Zuo, and Wen Cui, 2013 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference (IDETC), 2013

68. * “Thermoelectrically powered sensing for small modular reactors”, C.C. Lin, et al, 2013 ASME Heat Transfer Conference, 2013

69. * “A Self-Powered Piezoelectric Vibration Control System with Switch Pre-Charged Inductor (SPCI) Method”, W. Zhou and L. Zuo, 2013 American Control Conference

70. * “Assessment of Vehicle Performances with Energy-Harvesting Shock Absorbers”, P. Li and L. Zuo, SAE 2013 World Congress, April 16-18, 2013, Detroit, Michigan

71. "A High-performance Piezoelectric Flextensional Harvester", W. Zhou, T.B. XU, and L. Zuo, Joint Conference of MFPT 2013 and ISA’s 59th International Instrumentation Symposium, May 13-17, 2013, Cleveland, Ohio

72. "Analytical solutions to H_2and H_∞ optimization of resonant shunt electromagnetic tuned mass damper and vibration energy harvester", SPIE Conferences on Smart Structures and Materials. March 10-14, 2013, San Diego, CA

73. "Review of power electronics for energy harvesting systems", SPIE Conferences on Smart Structures and Materials. March 10-14, 2013, San Diego, CA

74. "Experiment study on structure damage detection using a higher-order resonant circuit", SPIE Conferences on Smart Structures and Materials. March 10-14, 2013, San Diego, CA

In 2012

75. * “A motion rectifier based energy harvesting shock absorbers”, Z. Li, L. Zuo, J. Kuang, and G. Luhrs, 2012 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference, Chicago, IL, 08/2012.

76. * “Dual functional energy harvesting and vibration control: An electromagnetic realization of series tuned mass dampers”, L. Zuo and W. Cui, 2012 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference, Chicago, IL, 08/2012.

77. * “Design, modeling, and road tests of electromagnetic energy-harvesting shock absorbers”, Z. Li, L. Zuo, et al, 2012 ASME Dynamic System and Control Conference, 10/2012 (Finalist of semi-plenary presentations).

78. * “Energy harvesting from train-induced rail track deflections”, G.R Penamalli, John Wang, and L. Zuo, The 8th IEEE/ASME International Conference on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications, 07/2012.

79. “Design and analysis of electromagnet array based vibration energy harvester with high power density”, L. Teng, X. Tang, L. Zuo, SPIE Conferences on Smart Structures and Materials. March 2012.

80. “Sensitivity enhanced piezoelectric admittance based damage detection using higher order inductive circuits”, W. Zhou, G.R. Penamalli, L. Zuo, SPIE Conferences on Smart Structures and Materials. March 2012.

81. * “Thermoelectric properties of magnesium silicide prepared by thermal spray”, B. Zhang, L. Zuo, et al, ASME 2012 Summer Heat Transfer Conference - HT2012, July 8-12, 2012


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82. * “Fabrication of Thermoelectric Devices For Vehicle Exhaust Applications Using Thermal Spray and Laser Processing”, M. Tewolde, J. Longtin, L. Zuo, D. Hwang, and S. Sampath, ASME 2012 Summer Heat Transfer Conference - HT2012, July 8-12, 2012.

83. * “Review of Waste Energy Resource in Vehicle Exhaust Heat”, G. Fu, L. Zuo, and J.Longtin, ASME 2012 Summer Heat Transfer Conference - HT2012, July 8-12, 2012

84. * “Heat Transfer Modeling and Geometry Optimization of TEG for Automobile Applications”, G. Fu, L. Zuo, J. Longtin, S. Sampath, B. Zhang, ASME 2012 Summer Heat Transfer Conference - HT2012, July 8-12, 2012

85. * “Energy Harvesting and Motion Control of Tall Buildings using Tuned Mass Dampers”, Lei Zuo and Ahsan Kareem, CTBUH 2012: 9th World Congress, 19–21 September, 2012.

86. “Thermoelectric Materials Research and Integrated Design and Manufacturing of Thermoelectric Device using Thermal Spray”, G. Fu, L. Zuo, et al, 2012 MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, 11/2012

In 2011

87. * "Energy, Ride Comfort, and Road Handling of Regenerative Vehicle Suspensions”, L. Zuo and P. Zhang, 2011 ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference (DSCC), Arlington, VA, Oct 31 - Nov 2, 2011

88. * “Multi-Mode Vibration Energy Harvester and Tuned Mass Damper using Double-Beam Structure”, W. Zhou, G.R. Penamalli and L. Zuo, 2011 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE) , Denver Colorado, Nov 11-17, 2011

89. * “Modeling of an Electromagnetic Vibration Energy Harvester with Motion Magnification”, Z. Li, Z. Brindak, and L. Zuo, 2011 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE), Denver Colorado, Nov 11-17, 2011 (cited 35 times in Google Scholar)

90. "Improved Design of Linear Electromagnetic Transducers for Large-Scale Vibration Energy Harvesting," Xiudong Tang, Lei Zuo, T Lin, and P. Zhang, Smart Structures and Materials: Proceedings of SPIE 7977, March 2011

91. * "Simulation and Experiment Validation of Simultaneous Vibration Control and Energy Harvesting from Buildings via Tuned Mass Dampers" (invited paper), X. Tang and L. Zuo, Proceeding of America Control Conference, San Francisco, CA, June 29 - July 1, 2011 (cited 42 times in Google Scholar)

92. * “Assessment of Energy Potential and Vibration Mitigation of Regenerative Tuned Mass Dampers on Wind Excited Tall Buildings” Tao Ni, Lei Zuo, and Ahsan Kareem, 2011 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conferences, Washington DC, Aug 28-31, 2011 (cited 36 times in Google Scholar)

93. * "A Piezoelectric Ceramic Multilayer Stack for Energy Harvesting under Dynamic Forces" T-B Xu, J.H. Kang , E.J. Siochi, L. Zuo, W. Zhou, X. Tang, X Jiang, 2011 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conferences, Washington DC, Aug 28-31, 2011

94. * "Design and Fabrication of a Differential Scanning Nanocalorimeter for Biological Applications" L. Zuo, X. Chen and M. Lu, 2011 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conferences, Washington DC, Aug 28-31, 2011

95. * "Enhanced Design of Vibration Energy Harvesting using Dual-Masses", X. Tang and L. Zuo, 2011 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conf., Washington DC, Aug 28-31, 2011.

In 2010

96. * “Regenerative Semi-Active Control of Tall Building Vibration with Series TMDs,” X. Tang and L. Zuo, Proceeding of America Control Conf., Baltimore, MD, Jun 30 - Jul 2, 2010 (cited 22 times on Google Scholar)

97. “Analysis of Train Induced Elastic Waves in Rail and the Feasibility for Damage Detection,” G.R. Penamalli and L. Zuo, NDE/NDT for Highways and Bridges: Structural Materials Technology (SMT), Aug 16-20, 2010


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98. “Active and Semi-active Series Tuned Mass Dampers“ Xiudong Tang and Lei Zuo, Proceedings of SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering: Active and Passive Smart Structures and Integrated Systems, San Diego, March 2010

99. * “Self-powered Active Control of Structures with TMDs”, X. Tang and L. Zuo, IMAC XXVIII Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics: Structural Dynamics and Renewable Energy, Jacksonville, Florida, Feb 1-4, 2010

In 2009

100. * “Towards MESO And Macro Scale Energy Harvesting of Vibration,” Xiudong Tang and Lei Zuo, Proceedings of the 2009 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Florida, 2009

101. * “Design of a new type of eddy-current damper with increased damping density”, Lei Zuo, Brian Scully, and Samir Nayfeh, Proceedings of the 2009 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference, San Diego, 2009

102. * “Circuit optimization and vibration analysis of electromagnetic energy harvesting systems”, Lei Zuo and Xiudong Tang, Proceedings of the 2009 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference, San Diego, 2009

103. * “Design and Characterization of an Electromagnetic Energy Harvester For Vehicle Suspensions”, Brian Scully, Lei Zuo, Jurgen Shestani, and Yu Zhou, Proceedings of the 2009 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Florida, 2009

In 1999-2008

104. * Lei Zuo, Characteristics and Optimization of Series Multiple Tuned Mass Dampers, Proceedings of the 2007 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference, 21st ASME Biennial Conference on Mechanical Vibration & Noise, Sep 2007

105. * Lei Zuo and Samir Nayfeh, Adaptive least-mean square feed-forward control with actuator saturation by minimization, Proceedings of the 2005 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference, 20th ASME Biennial Conference on Mechanical Vibration & Noise, Sep 2005

106. Lei Zuo and Samir Nayfeh, Modified LMS feed-forward control for vibration isolation with actuator limits, Smart Structures and Materials: Damping and Isolation, Proceedings of SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering, March 2005.

107. * Lei Zuo, Jean-Jacques Slotine, and Samir Nayfeh, Experimental Study of a Novel Adaptive Controller for Active Vibration Isolation, Proceedings of the 2004 American Control Conference, June 30-July 2, 2004 (cited 28 times in Google Scholar)

108. * Lei Zuo and Samir Nayfeh, An Active-Passive Stage for Vibration Isolation and Positioning Control, Proceedings of the 7th International Conf. on Motion and Vibration Control, 2004

109. Lei Zuo and Samir Nayfeh, An Integral Sliding Control For Robust Vibration Isolation and Its Implementation, Smart Structures and Materials: Damping and Isolation, Proceedings of SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering, March 2004.

110. Lei Zuo and Samir Nayfeh, Active Vibration Isolation Using a Post-Buckled Spring, Control of Precision Systems, Proceedings of American Society of Precision Engineering Spring Meeting, April 2004.

111. Seismic Isolation and Suspension Systems for Advanced LIGO, with N.A. Robertson, B. Abbott, and et al, Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation Symposium, Proceedings of SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering, Vol 5500, 2004. (Cited 44 times in Google Scholar)

112. * Lei Zuo and Samir Nayfeh, Decentralized H2 Optimal Control with Pole Regional Constraints, Proceedings of the 2003 American Control Conference, June 2003.

113. * Lei Zuo and Samir Nayfeh, The Multi-DOF Tuned-mass Damper for Suppression of Single-Mode Vibration Under Random and Harmonic Excitation, Proceedings of the 2003 ASME


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Design Engineering Technical Conference, 19th ASME Biennial Conference on Mechanical Vibration & Noise, Chicago, 2003.

114. Lei Zuo and Samir Nayfeh, Optimization of the Individual Stiffness and Damping Parameters in Multiple-Tuned-Mass-Damper Systems, Smart Structures and Materials: Damping and Isolation, Proceedings of SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering, 2003.

115. * Lei Zuo and Samir Nayfeh, Design of Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Tuned Mass Damper: a Minimax Approach, 43rd AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference, Denver, April 2002, AIAA paper 2002-1283. (Cited 18 times in Google Scholar)

116. Justin Verdirame, Samir Nayfeh, and Lei Zuo, Design of Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Tuned Mass Dampers, Smart structures and materials: Damping and Isolation, Proceedings of SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering, March 2002.

117. * Lei Zuo and Samir Nayfeh, Design of Passive Mechanical Systems via Decentralized Control Techniques, 43rd AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference, Denver, April 2002, AIAA paper 2002-1282. (Cited 46 times in Google Scholar)

Patents (5 granted and 3 pending)

1. “Energy Harvesting Shock Absorbers”, L. Zuo, X. Tang, and P. Zhang, U.S. patent # 8941251, filed Feb 2011, Awarded Jan 2015.

2. “Multistage Force Amplification of Piezoelectric Stacks”, T-B Xu, E.J. Siochi, L. Zuo, X. Jiang, and J.H. Kang, U.S. Patent US 9,048,759, filed in Nov 2011, Awarded June 2 2015.

3. "High Efficient and Reliable Energy Generator for Ocean Waves and Mechanical Vibrations, L. Zuo, G.R. Penamalli, J. Wang, US patent #9,394,876 B2, filed 2013 and awarded 2016

4. "Ball-screws and MMR based ocean wave energy harvesting”, L. Zuo, L. Xu, Y. Liu, Disclosure at VT, US patent application, 2016

5. Energy harvesting shock absorber using bevel gear sets as mechanical motion rectifier, L. Zuo, L. Xu, Y. Liu, Disclosure at VT, US patent application, 2016

6. “Relaxor Piezoelectric Single Crystal Multilayer Stacks for Energy Harvesting Transducers (RPSEHT)”, T.B. Xu, E.J. Siochi, X. Jiang, L. Zuo, and J.H. Kang, U.S. and international provisional patent application # 61/414/807, filed on 11/17/2010.

7. “Active Control of Vibration Isolation using Dynamic Manifolds”, Lei Zuo and Jean-Jacques Slotine, U.S. Patent # 7,216,018, Filed Jun 2004, Awarded May 2007.

8. “Steam Turbine Packing Spring”, L. Zuo, T. Norman, B. Fang, B. Mark, and B. Frederick, US Patent # 6,935,634, Filed May 2003, awarded Aug 2005

Media Coverage/ Highlights about Lei Zuo

“Virginia Tech developing energy harvesting backpack for Army”, Norfolk TV, May 2nd 2017

“Riding an Energy Wave”, featured story on the ASME Mechanical Engineering Magazine, by Jeff O’Heir, Aug 2016

“Virginia Tech professor earns $1 million grant to produce nuclear radiation energy-harvesting device”, top headline in the Nuclear Energy Institute's daily nuclear news, Aug 23 2016

“Virginia Tech developing one pound energy harvester for Army, replacing 16 pounds of batteries”, WDBJ TV News, channel 7, Aug 19 2016

“ Energy-harvesting backpack to lighten load for U.S. soldiers”, Virginia Tech News, 8/16/2016

“Inventor of the Month”, recognized by the Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, July 206

“Lei Zuo named John R. Jones III Faculty Fellow”, Virginia Tech News, June 2016

“Scholar of the Week”, recognized by the Virginia Tech office of the Vice President for Research, April 2016

“Lei Zuo selected as ASME Fellow”, Virginia Tech News, March 2016


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“Ocean wave energy harvesting nets Virginia Tech $2 million Department of Energy grant”, Virginia Tech News, March 2016

“Researchers scale up ocean wave energy harvester”, featured energy and green tech news at Tech Xplore, by Lisa Zyga, April 2016

“Good Vibrations”, featured story and highlight as “Spotlight on Innovation” on the first page

of Virginia Tech website. Dec 2015

“Best Technical Development Award”, featured news at The National Institute of Aerospace

(NIA), Dec 2015

“Engineers invent way for cars to harvest energy from bumps in the road”, Virginia Tech News,

by Eleanor Nelsen, PhysOrg, August 4, 2015

Best Technical Development of a Large-Scale Energy Harvesting Device, Energy Harvesting

& Storage and IoT Applications Awards USA 2014”, Energy Harvesting Journal, 11/20, 2014

“Deriving energy from potholes”, by Varun Dutt, Financial Chronicle, Jun 12 2014.

“Railroad energy harvester among winners of New York clean energy awards”, Railway Track

& Structures Magazine (RT&S), May 13, 2014

“Energy Harvesting, the Big and the Small”, ASME Mechanical Engineering Magazine,

March 2013 issue, pp20.

“Good Vibrations: Tech Harvests Railroad Energy to Power Gates and Signs”, by Michael

Keller, Txchnologist, April 2nd, 2013

"New Technology Harvests Energy from Train Track Vibrations!", featured story by Kim

Scorcher of TYT NerdAlert, an internet TV news show (12/06/2012)

“Award-winning device harvests energy from railway track vibrations”, interviewed and

reported by Paul Ridden, Gizmag 11/28/2012,

“Technology Harvests Energy from Railroad Train Vibrations”, ScienceDaily, 11/15/2012

“Stony Brook team wins a national award for technology that harvest energy from railroad track

vibrations”, Stony Brook Press Release, 11/14/2012

“Man on the move: Scientist Lei Zuo Harvests Energy from Trains, Cars, Waves”, featured on

Newsday, on the cover page (09/16/2012)

"Mechanical motion rectifier leads to better energy harvesting", PhysOrg (04/25/2012)

“SUNY Invention Produces Power from Potholes”, Press Release of SUNY Research

Foundation about technology license. (04/02/2012)

“SBU Advanced Energy Team Wins 2011 'R&D 100' Award for Energy Harvesting Shock

Absorber Technology”, Stony Brook News, June 28, 2011

“Congratulations! R&D 100 Award Winner Prof. Lei ZUO and His Graduate Student Team”,

Asian American E-zine, June 30, 2011

“Professor's shock absorber wins award”, interviewed and reported by Sophia Chang, Newsday

newspaper, July 14, 2011

“Energy-harvesting shock absorber that increases fuel efficiency wins R&D 100 award”,

interviewed and reported by Lisa Zyga, PhsyOrg, July 14, 2011

“Shock Absorber Harvests Energy from Bumps”, Discovery News by Nic Halverson,7/19/2011

“Vehicle shock absorber recovers energy from bumps in the road”, interviewed and reported

by Lisa Zyga, PhsyOrg, March 17, 2010

“Electricity-Generating Shock Absorbers”, Interviewed and reported by Kevin Bullis, MIT

Technology Review, May 10, 2010

“Harnessing the Power of the Pothole”, Interviewed and reported by Anne Eisenberg, New York

Times, June 4, 2010

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“Lei Zuo Leads Energy-Saving Research Project”, Faculty/Staff Research Highlights, Stony

Brook Happenings, July 16th, 2010

“18th century mill now making 21st century power: SBU project turns Stony Brook Grist Mill into

hydroelectric plant”, interviewed and reported by Jennifer Choi, Times Beacon Record

Newspapers, Aug 05, 2010

“Stony Brook University and WMHO Give Historic Grist Mill New Life Producing Electricity”,

Stony Brook Press Release, August 2010

“Students bring hydroelectricity to 1751 mill”, interviewed and reported by James Bernstein,

Newsday, Aug 06, 2010

“Electric Makeover (Long Island’s Grist Mill Hydroelectric Generator)”, TV 10/55 news at eleven,

Aug 25, 2010

Invited Talks

Invited talk at SUNY Buffalo, “Energy Harvesting: From Self-Powered Sensing and Control to Blue Energy”, Aug 3, 2017

Invited talk at Tsinghua University, “Improve vehicle dynamics and fuel efficiency via energy

harvesting”, June 30, 2017

Invited panelist at American Nuclear Society meeting, June 11-15, 2017, San Francisco.

“Energy Harvesting for Sensor and Data Communication in Nuclear Spent Fuel Dry Storage”,

2017 (Registration fee covered by the conference)

Invited talk at Uncharted Play Company (in NYC), “Energy harvesting technologies and

commercialization”, 3/2017

Invited talk at University California at Berkeley, “Large Scale Energy Harvesting”, 11/2016

Invited talk at 2016 IDTechEx Energy Harvesting and Storage USA Conference,

“Mechanical Motion Rectifier: A Breakthrough for Large Scale Energy Harvesting”

(11/2016) (Registration fee covered by the conference)

Distinguished Speaker Series, Dept. Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, University of

Toronto, “Energy Harvesting: from Wireless Sensing to Renewable Energy”, 09/2016

Invited talk at Hydrovision International Hydropower Conference, Minneapolis, “An Innovative

Power Takeoff for Efficient and Reliable Ocean Wave Energy Harvesting”, July 27-29, 2016

(Registration fee covered by the conference)

Invited talk at Volvo Truck, MD, “Improving the Fuel Efficiency and Vehicle Dynamics via

Kinetic and Thermal Energy Harvesting” (07/29/2016)

Invited talk at Xi’an Jiao Tong University, “Energy Harvesting: from Small to Large Energy

Scale”, (06/22/2016)

Invited talk at National Taiwan University, “Ocean Wave Energy Harvesting at Virginia Tech

and USA” (06/16/2015)

Invited Speaker, IDTechEx Energy Harvesting and Storage USA 2015 conference, Santa

Clara, CA, 11/2015 (Registration fee covered by the conference)

Invited talk at National Taiwan University, “Large-scale Vibration Energy Harvesting”

(08/10/2015)

Invited talk at National Chiao Tung University, “Mechanical and Electrical Resonances: nexus

of vibration, energy harvesting, and structural health monitoring” (08/10/2015)

Invited talk at National Chung Hsin University, “Large-scale Energy Harvesting” (08/11/2015)


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Invited talk at Taiwan National Ocean University, “Ocean Wave Energy Harvesting”

(08/12/2015)

Invited talk at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Wuhan), “Vibration Energy

Harvesting” (08/13/2015)

Invited talk at Tsinghua University (Beijing), “Vehicle Energy Harvesting: Vibration and Thermal

Energy” (08/19/2015)

Invited talk at City University of New York, “Large-scale Vibration Energy Harvesting”

(10/30/2014)

Invited talk at University of Michigan, “Large-scale Energy Harvesting” (04/10/2014)

Invited talk at Stevens Institute of Technology, NJ. “Energy Harvesting: From Technology to

Applications” (10/30/2013)

Invited Keynote Speaker, 2013 SAE World Congress, “Energy Harvesting Controllable

Suspensions”, April 16-18, Detroit, MI (04/16/2013)

Invited Guest Speaker, to annual Career Day of Grade 5 students, Public School 107, Flushing,

NY (03/22/2013)

Invited talk in Energy Harvesting and Storage USA 2012 Conference, “Large Scale Energy

Harvesting, Moving from Miliwatts to Kilowatts”, Washington DC (11/07/2012)

The 2012 ASME Dynamic System and Control Conference, invited paper and finalist of semi-

plenary presentation, “Design, modeling, and road tests of electromagnetic energy-harvesting

shock absorbers”, Ft Lauderdale, FL (10/19/2012)

Long Island Rail Road, “Energy Harvesting from Railway Track Vibrations”, Jamaica, NY

(07/26/2012)

GE Global Research Center, “Tuned Mass Damper: From Vibration Control to Energy

Harvesting and Structure Health Monitoring”, Niskayuna, NY. (06/19/2012)

Abbott Laboratories Bioresearch Center, “Ultrasensitive, Superfast, and Microliter-Volume

Differential Scanning Nanocalorimeter (DSC) for Direct Characterization of Biomolecular

Interactions”, Worcester, MA (06/21/2012)

Ohio State University, “Large-Scale Vibration Energy Harvesting: A Pathway towards

Sustainable Energy” Columbus, OH (04/19/2012)

3rd DOE’s Thermoelectric Application Workshop, “Integrated Design and Manufacturing of

Thermoelectric Generator using Thermal Spray”, Baltimore, MD (03/21/2012)

Wuhan University of Technology, “Vehicle Energy Harvesting: Regenerative Shock Absorbers

and Exhaust Heat Energy Recovery”, Wuhan China (07/02/2012)

Tsinghua University, “Large Scale of Energy Harvesting: Toward Sustainable Energy”, Beijing

China (07/03/2012)

Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, “Large Scale of Energy Harvesting”,

Nanjing China (07/04/2012)

University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute, “Large Scale of Energy

Harvesting”, Shanghai China (07/06/2012)

DOE’s 2nd Thermoelectric Applications Workshop, Invited talk “NSF-DOE TE Partnership:

Integrated Design and Manufacturing of Cost-Effective & Industrial-Scalable TEG for Vehicle

Applications”, San Deigo, CA(01/04-01/05/2011)

The 2011 Advanced Energy Conference, Invited talk “Energy-Harvesting Shock Absorbers”,

Buffalo, NY (10/12-13/2011)


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Accelerate Long Island Showcase, Invited talk “Energy-Harvesting Shock Absorbers”, Garden

City NY (09/26/2011)

The 2011 America Control Conference, Invited paper "Simulation and Experiment Validation of Simultaneous Vibration Control and Energy Harvesting from Buildings via Tuned Mass Dampers" San Francisco, CA (06/30/2011)

Pittsburgh University, ““Large-Scale Vibration Energy Harvesting”, PA (04/20/2011)

Invited keynote talk in E2 - Micro/Nano Energy Harvesting Technology Workshop on "Energy

Harvesting from Vehicles and Civil Structures", Hoboken, NJ (12/07/2010)

Teaching

At Virginia Tech

Fall 2017 • ME 5814 Energy Harvesting (~20 students)

• ME 4006 Mechanical Engineering Lab (~360 students). This is extra teaching beyond the normal teaching load.

• ME 4015 Senior Design (5 students of 1 team)

• ME 4994 Undergraduate Research

• ME 5994 Research and Thesis

• ME 7994 Research and Dissertation

Fall 2016

• ME 5814 Energy Harvesting (18 students)

• ME4984 / Arc 4984 Special Study: smart drillfield. This is extra teaching of two credits, developed in collaboration with colleagues in the College or Architecture. The course fits well into the VT’s Destination Area "Intelligent Infrastructure for Human-Centered Communities"

• ME 4994 Undergraduate Research

• ME 5994 Research and Thesis

• ME 7994 Research and Dissertation

• ME 4015 Senior Design (7 students of 1 team)

Spring 2016

• ME 3504 Dynamic Systems- Vibrations (61 students)

• ME 4994 Undergraduate Research (1 students)

• ME 5994 Research and Thesis (7 students)

• ME 7994 Research and Dissertation (7 students)

• ME 4015 Senior Design (12 students of two teams)

Fall 2015

• ME 5814 Energy Harvesting (14 students)




• ME 4015 Senior Design (13 students of two teams)

Spring 2015

• ME 3504 Dynamic Systems- Vibrations (Two sessions: 55 + 59 students)

• ME 2974 Independent Study (3 students)



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Fall 2014



At Stony Brook University

• MEC 402, Mechanical Vibration (Fall 2008 and 2009)

• MEC 560, Advanced Control (Spring 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014) (New course I developed)

• MEC 316, Sensors and Instrumentation (Fall 2009, Fall 2010)

• MEC 220, Mechatroncis I: Practical Electronics and Circuits for Mechanical Engineers, Fall 2011, 2012, 2013 (New course I developed)

• WSE 187, Introduction to Research: Women in Science & Engineering (Spring 2012, 2014)

• MEC 696, Special Problems in Mechanical Engineering (Spring 2009-20-2014)

• MEC 599, Research in Mechanical Engineering (Fall 2009-date)

Research Advising and Mentoring (Currently advising 12 PhD and 5 MS students, 2 postdocs, 2 visiting scholars,7 undergraduate researchers; Completed: 7 PhD, 19 MS with thesis, 24 MS/ME with projects, 100+ undergraduates, 10 high school students, 12 visiting scholars, 8 postdocs)

• Current Postdoc (2):

Dr. Wei-Che Tai (08/2016 – ), postdoc fellow, PhD University of Washington 2014 Dr. Shengxi Zhou (02/2017 - ), postdoc fellow, PhD Xi’an Jiaotong University, 2017

• Visiting Scholar (2):

Dr. Bang-Fuh Chen, visiting professor (10/17-12/17, Professor at NSYSU, Taiwan ROC) Dr. Yanyang Wang, visiting scholar (11/17-10/18, Lecturer at Xihua University, China)

• Current PhD Students (totally 12 PhD students: 11 at Virginia Tech, 1 at Stony Brook):

1. Teng Lin (10/2013 – 2/2018 expected), Railway Track Energy Harvesting 2. Shifeng Yu (08/2013 – 8/2018 expected), High throughput miniaturized calorimeter 3. Chien-An Chen (08/2014 -), Energy harvesting power electronics (co-advised with K Ngo) 4. Yongjia Wu (08/2015 -), Thermoelectronic energy harvesting 5. Yu Pan (08/2015 -), Freight railcar energy harvesting 6. Hongjip Kim (01/2016- ), Stochastic resonance for energy harvesting 7. Mingyi Liu (08/2016-), Energy harvesting backpack 8. Feng Qian (08/2016-), piezoelectric energy harvesting 9. Xiaofan Li (08/2017-), Ocean wave energy harvesting: Design and dynamics 10. Qiuchi Xiong (08/2017-), Control of wave energy harvesting 11. Sijing Guo (08/2014-09/2016 visiting students, 08/2017- PhD student) Topic: Dynamics

and control of intelligent vehicles 12. Kan Sun (08/2017 - ), Additive manufacturing of thermoelectric materials and devices

• Current MS Students with thesis option (5 at VT)

1. Dillon Martin (11/2015-09/2017): Dillion finished his defense in Oct and is currently employed as a MS Research Associate in my lab

2. Xiaofan Li (08/2015-09/2017): Ocean wave energy harvesting: PTO design 3. Lin Rui (08/2017 -): Drillfield energy harvesting 4. Wendy Sparrer, UGG (BS/MS) student


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5. Samuel Marthinuss, UGG (BS/MS) student

• Current Undergraduate Students at Virginia Tech (7)

o Senior Design: Wendy Sparrer, Samuel Marthinuss, Elias Bearinger, Shuo Chen o Independent study: Jason Parker, Zhengliang Zhong, Hanchen Zhou

Former Visiting Professors (10):

Dr. Long Wu, visiting scholar (08/16-06/17, currently professor & VP at Sanming University) Dr. Yan Bo, visiting scholar (06/17-08/17, lecturer Zhejiang SCI-TECH University) Dr. Jianyong Zuo, visiting scholar (12/2016-04/2017, associate dean Tongji Univ) Dr. Gangfeng Tan, visiting scholar (01/2016-02/2017) (associate prof and associate chair Wuhan Univ of Tech) Dr. Hongxin Sun, visiting scholar (09/2015-08/2016), (associate dean in Hunan Univ. of Sci and Tech)

Dr. Nian Wang (09/2014-09/2015), visiting scholar (associate prof in Wuhan Univ. of Tech.) Dr. Lin Xu (09/2014-09/2015), visiting scholar (lecturer in Wuhan University of Technology)

Dr. Mrudual Gadhvi (09/2013- 09/2014), postdoc under Obama-Singh Fellowship, Associate Prof at at St. Xavier’s College, India

Dr. Shunming Li (06/2014-09/2014), currently Professor at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Dr. Chi-Chang Lin (06/2013-09/2013): PhD from SUNY Buffalo, Currently Distinguished Professor in Civil Engineering at National Chung-Hsing University (NCHU),Taiwan ROC

Dr. Liangyao Yu (02/2013- 02/2014), currently Associate Prof at Tsinghua University Dr. Xuan Sun (02/2010 – 01/2011), currently Asso. Prof at Guilin Univ. of Technology, China

Former Post-doc Fellows (8):

Dr. Xiuxing Yin (08/2016 – 09/2017), currently postdoc fellow in UK Dr. Changwei Liang (03/2017-06/2017), currently in industry Dr. Lirong Wang, Research associate (07/2014 -08/2016)

Dr. Lin Xu (01/2016-08/2016), lecturer in Wuhan University of Technology Dr. Kentaro Shinoda (01/2011-03/2011, NSF-DOE), co-advisor with Prof Sanjay Sampath Dr. Xiaoya Shi (03/2011 – 01/2012, SUB-BNL Seed), currently in industry Dr. Ivo Kolev Dimitrov (02/2012 – 07/2012, SUB-BNL Seed), co-advisor with Dr. Qiang Li Dr. Yikai Chen (07/2011- 03/2013, NSF-DOE), co-advisor with Prof Sanjay Sampath

Graduated PhD/MS Students (7 PhD thesis, 19 MS theses, & 24 ME with projects)

With PhD Thesis Completed (7 PhD): 1. Shuyu Wang (08/2013-7/2017), PhD thesis: “A MEMS-based Differential Scanning

Calorimeter for Protein Stability Characterization” 2. Changwei Liang (08/2012-12/2016), PhD thesis: “On the Dynamics and Design of a

Wave Energy Converter with Mechanical Motion Rectifier” 3. Yilun Liu (06/2012 – 10/2016), PhD thesis: “Design, Modeling and Control of Vibration

Systems with Electromagnetic Energy Harvesters and their Application to Vehicle Suspensions”

4. Peng Li (08/2011-04/2016), PhD thesis: “Electromagnetic Energy Harvesting Vehicle Suspension Systems”

5. Gaosheng Fu (09/2010 – 3/2015), PhD thesis: “Integrated Design and Manufacturing of Thermoelectric Generator for Energy Harvesting”

6. Wanlu Zhou (06/2010 – 03/2015), PhD thesis: “Multifunctional Smart Structures for Energy Harvesting, Structure Health Monitoring and Vibration”


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7. Xiudong Tang (09/2008 – 02/2013), PhD thesis: “Simultaneous Energy Harvesting and Vibration Control of Tall Buildings using Electricity-Generating Tuned Mass Dampers" (Currently Assistant Professor at New York Institute of Technology)

With MS Thesis Completed (19 MS):

8. Dillon Martin (11/2015-09/2017): Marine hydrodynamics of ocean wave energy converter

9. Jackson Klein (08/2015-05/2017), Energy Harvesting Opportunities Throughout the Nuclear Power Cycle for Self-Powered Wireless Sensor Nodes

10. Yue Yuan (10/2014-02/2017), Backpack energy harvesting with human walking model 11. Yalu Pei (01/2015-12/2016), Multi-resonant electromagnetic shunt in base isolation for

vibration damping and energy harvesting 12. Shaoxu Xing, (08/2013 – 09/2016), Design of power converter and wireless data

transmission for TEG energy harvesting (MS in ME and ECE) 13. Prakhar Todaria (08/2013 – 03/2016), MS thesis: energy harvesting Speed bump 14. Jie Chen (08/2013 -12/2015 ), MS thesis: Thermoelectric energy harvesting for nuclear

sensing 15. You Wu (09/2012 – 05/2015), MS thesis: Energy harvesting for wildlife tracking 16. Shuyu Wang (08/2013-04/2016), MS thesis: Differential Scanning Calorimeter for

Biomolecular Interaction Application 17. Shubin Chen (10/2013-12/2014), MS thesis: Design and optimization of piezoelectric

energy harvesting with force magnification 18. Junxiao Ai (08/2012-07/2014), MS thesis: Design and Test of An Ocean Wave Energy

Harvesting System 19. Jinwoo Park (08/2012 – 09/2014), MS thesis: Design of on on-road energy harvesting 20. Chongxiao Zhang (12/2012 – 01/2014), MS thesis: “Integration of Regenerative Shock

Absorber into Vehicle Electric System” 21. Jianchen Yin (09/2012- 2/2014), MS thesis: Fabrication and Characterization of Power

Compensated Differential Scanning Nanocalorimeter 22. Chao Nie (07/2012-08/2013), MS thesis: Characterization of Magnesium Silicide

processed with Thermal Spray For Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting (07/10/2013) 23. John Wang (08/2011-08/2013), MS thesis: “Mechanical Motion Rectifier Based Energy

Harvester for Railroad Track Applications” 24. Zhongjie Li (08/2010-07/2012): MS thesis: “Energy Harvesting Shock Absorbers”

(Currently employed at Quantum Corp., CA) 25. Gopinath Reddy Penamalli (09/2009 -- 08/2011): MS thesis, “Railway Structural Health

Monitoring and Energy Harvesting” (Currently engineer in Delphi Corp., MI) 26. Pei Sheng Zhang (10/2008 – 12/2010): MS thesis, “Design of Electromagnetic Shock

Absorbers for Energy Harvesting from Vehicle Suspensions” (Currently engineer in Electric Board CT)

MS with Project Option (24 MS with project option):

1. Abhishek Pandey (08/2013 – 12/2014): Energy harvesting speed bump 2. Vishwatej Mane (08/2013 -06/2014 ): oil drilling sensing and energy harvesting 3. You Wu (09/2012 – 06/2014 ), Piezoelectric energy harvesting for wildlife tracking 4. Zhichao Xu (09/2012- 02/2014), Hydroelectric energy-harvesting shock absorber 5. Hongbo Yu (08/2012-01/2014), Topic: Railway track energy harvester 6. Ke Yu (09/2011-08/2013), Hydroelectric energy harvester 7. Harrison Greene (09/2012-06/2013), Vibration energy harvester design 8. Changming Zou (08/2012-08/2013), Topic: On-road energy harvesting


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9. Bikash Sukla (08/2012 -), Topic: Suspension energy harvester design 10. Yusong Di (09/2011-08/2013), Power electronics for energy harvesting 11. Qiang Liu (09/2012 -05/2013 ), Ocean wave energy 12. Fei Lu (09/2012 – 05/2013), Marine hydrodynamics 13. Teng Lin (09/2010-05/2012), MS project: Energy harvesting from railway track vibration 14. Wen Cui (01/2012-12/2012), MS project: Electromagnetic tuned mass damper with

resonant shunt 15. Jian Kuang (09/2011 –01/2013), Design of mechanical motion rectifier based energy

harvester 16. Saurabh Gandhi (08/2011-12/2012), MS project: Dynamics & control of ocean wave

energy converter 17. Bo Zhang (01/2011 - 06/2012), MS project: Characterization of thermoelectric materials 18. Xiaoming Chen (01/2009-12/10 transferred), MEMS-based nanocalorimeter 19. Zac Brindak (1/2010-08/2011), MS project: Energy-harvesting shock absorber design 20. Ni Tao (09/2009 – 06/2011), MS project: Wind and tall building interaction 21. Dimauro Edwards (1/2010-5/2010), MS project: Small hydropower development 22. Rong Feng Yu (10/2008-05/2010), MS project: Ultra-sensitive thermo sensors 23. Eddie Zheng (06/2009-12/2009), MS project: On-road energy harvester design 24. Sharanya Divakaruni (01/2010-05/2010), MS project: Building energy monitoring

• Former Undergraduates (~120 undergraduates: 55 undergraduates in six senior teams at VT, 56 in 17 senior design teams, and 7 others in project teams at Stony Brook;)

Former Undergraduates At Stony Brook (63 undergraduates): Brian Scully and Jurgen Shestani (senior design, 09/2008-05/2009), Weimin Chen, Jian Zhu, Ethan Li (senior design, 09/2009-05/2010), Zac Brindak, Hani Murarez, Chris Seano (senior design, 9/2009-05/2010), Brian Bates, Dimauro Edwards, Edwin Gonzalez, (senior design, 9/2009-05/2010), Lin Teng, Ka Wing Ng, and Yinyin Cui (senior design, 09/2010 – 5/2011), Joseph Maldonado, John Wang, Yves Paul Theusme (senior design, 09/2010- 5/2011), XiaoHui Lei, RuiHe Zheng, Jorge Lam Ki (senior design, 09/2010 – 5/2011) Randy Deodat, Queenie Chow, Cedric Chu (senior design, 09/2011-052012) Lisa Zhang, Ho Kan Lee, Yun Lu, Nick Daters (senior design, 09/2011-052012) Jennifer Maceiko, Anthony Falesto, Maurice David, Joe Russo (senior design, 09/11-05/12) Timothy Cho, Taehee Ryu, Hwan Lee (senior design, 09/2012-05/2013) Justin Mei, Xiaokang Yang (senior design, 09/2012-05/2013) Erica Graham, Stephan Jean (senior design, 09/2012-05/2013) Shubin Chen, Yanhong He (senior design, 09/2013-05/2014) Bing Lin, Hui Sun, Gregory Jo, Enfu Lu (senior design, 09/2013-05/2014) Tim Dugan (01/09-05/2009), Margaret Evans (01/10-05/2011, in WISE program), Chris Williams (06/2009-06/2011), Weixiao Zheng (10/10-1/12), Michael McCabe (2013) Richard LaGrandier (summer 2010), undergraduate researcher from MIT Matthew Pollack, (summer 2012), undergraduate researcher from Boston University Kristine Chen (summer 2013), undergraduate researcher from Stanford University Jordan Pasternak (summer 2013), undergraduate researcher from Union College Jessica Wu (summer 2013), undergraduate researcher from Tufts University

Former Undergraduates At VT (60+: 14 undergraduates in Spring 2015 + 4 in Summer 2015 + 13 in senior design in 2015-2016 + 2 undergraduates in Spring 2016 +4 in Summer 2016+3 in Fall 2016 + 7 undergraduate in senior design 2016-2017 +4 undergraduates in research credits)

Adam Wise, Hanchen Zhou, David Kennedy (undergraduate research credits)


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Matt Nabers, Sehyung Nam, Rui Lin, Katie Thich, Yilun Yu, Abdulazeez Albanyan, Alexander Hunt (Energy harvesting paver) Jedhathai Boontanom, Rosaline Lee, Hussain Alshawaf (EPA P3 student design, Spring 15) Joseph Blochberger, Anthony Rowen, Yuhao Zhou, Jack Jordan (vehicle energy harvesting) Carl Matthew Capindo, Erik Wiker, Eddie Krutyanskiy (ocean wave energy harvesting) Lewis Bennett, Dan Mangels, James Naleway, Robert Mellone (backpack energy harvesting) Carl Matthew Capindo, Jason Parker, Timothy Wersinger, Tim Cerilli – Summer 2015 Tim Cerilli, Paul Rhodes, Josh Mosiniak, Yang Song, Douglas Hearney, William Emeny (2016 Senior Design: Energy Harvesting from Suspension) Lee, Rosaline, House, Evan, Boontanom, Jedhathai, Capindo, Carl Matthew, Mizrahi, Coby, Palencia, Gabriel, Fernandez, Luis (2016 Senior Design: Ocean Wave Energy Harvesting) Timothy Wersinger (acoustic metamaterials, 2015-2016), Rachael Chase, Rachael Duke, David Kennedy, Jason Parker (NSF REUs, Summer 2016) Duncan Sims, Rachael Chase, Rachael Duke (independent study in Fall 2016) Wendy Sparrer, Samuel Marthinuss, Elias Bearinger, Shuo Chen, Kavi Muraleetharan (2017 Senior Design, power takeoff for ocean wave energy harvesting) Jason Parker, Zhengliang Zhong, Hanchen Zhou (2017 Independent study)

• Former High School Students (10, in which 5 subsequently admitted to MIT/Harvard)

Mohammad Naqvi (summer 2009, currently University of Buffalo) Susan Wu (summer 2010, admitted by MIT & Stanford U, now undergraduate at Stanford U) Kristine Chen (summer 2010, admitted by MIT & Stanford, now undergraduate at Stanford U) Wesley Cox (summer 2011, 2012, 2013, admitted by MIT) Ryo Kono (summer 2012, admitted by Columbia University) Kaestin Hsiao (summer 2013, currently in University of Washington, Seattle) Alan Wu (Summer 2014, admitted by MIT) Yianshen (George Hu) (Summer 2014, admitted by Harvard) Joshua Ding (summer 2015) Ishan Gurunani (summer 2017)

• Thesis Committee involved but not as main supervisor

At SBU: 4 PhD and 1 MS theses at SBU

Chun-Hui Chun (PhD defended in 7/2010, advisor Imin Kao), completed Roosevelt Moreno (PhD defended 2/2011, advisor Imin Kao), completed Kunbo Zhang (PhD, defended in 05/2011, advisor Imin Kao), completed Xiangyun Li (PhD, defended in 05/2014, advisor Jeff Ge), completed Jean Christian Brutus (MS defended in 4/2010, advisor Lin-Shu Wang), completed

At Virginia Tech: 6 PhD and 4 MS students

Ming Lu (PhD student, advisor Khai Ngo), completed Xiang Dai (PhD student, advisor Robert Parker), completed Chiang-Kai Chu (MS student, advisor Steve Southward), completed Yuhao Zhou (ME student, advisor Rob Parker), completed Adam Norman (MS student, advisor Danesh Tafti), completed

Imran Rahman (PhD student, advisor Saifur Rahman) Yincan Mao (PhD student, advisor Khai Ngo) Chenxin Wang (PhD student, advisor Robert Parker) Bing Dong (PhD student, advisor Robert Parker) Christian Odafin (MS student, advisor Shashank Priya) Peter Racioppo (MS student, advisor Pinhas Ben-Tzvi)


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Student Advisees Awards

National and external awards received by students or advisee: • DOE NEUP Research Fellowship ($50,000): Jackson Klein, 2016 • Finalist of ASME DETC/AVT best student paper, Sijing Guo, 08/2016 • ASME DETC/VIB travel award, Xiaofan Li, 08/2016 • Finalist of 2015 R&D100 Award: Changwei Liang, Teng Lin, and Lirong Wang. 2015 • ASME DETC/VIB travel award, Lin Xu, 08/2015 • 2014 ASME Best Paper Award in Structures and Structural Dynamics, Zhongjie Li, Jian

Kuang, and George Luhrs, 09/2014 • ASME DETC/VIB student travel award, Junxiao Ai, 08/2014 • EPA P3 Award, Junxiao Ai, Hwan Lee, Changwei Liang, 04/2014 • Best Student Paper in ASME conference AVT, Peng Lin, 08/2013 • Best Student Paper in ASME conference MESA, John Wang and Teng Lin, 08/2013 • Best Application of Energy Harvesting, by the conference of Energy Harvesting & Storage USA

11/2012, Lei Zuo, Teng Lin, and Jon Wang,11/2012, Washington DC. • R&D 100 Award by R&D Magazine, Lei Zuo, Xiuodong Tang and Zak Brindak, 06/2011 • First Place Award in the Northeast Regional Sigma Xi Student Research Symposium, Zak

Brindak, 04/2011 • Honorable Mention, in the Northeast Regional Sigma Xi Student Research Symposium,

Xiuodong Tang and Zhongjie Li, 04/2011 • Best Technology Development of Energy Harvesting, by the conference of Energy Harvesting

& Storage USA 2010, Lei Zuo and Xiudong Tang,11/2010, Cambridge, MA • Travel Award to attend American Control Conference, Xiudong Tang, 07/2010 • NSF Fellowship to attend NEMB2010, Xiaoming Chen, Sep 2009 • Second place in Microsoft's Imagine Cup Student Competition, Xiudong Tang, July 2009 • Sigma Xi Award for Excellence in Research, Brian Scully, April 2009

University-level awards and honors received by students:

• Risa Cheung, received URECA Fellowship, summer 2013. • Xiudong Tang gave a talk in the Provost's Graduate Student Lecture Series. (04/13/2011) • Shubin Chen, Undergraduate junior, received URECA Fellowship to conduct research in my lab

in summer 2012. • Wesley Cox, high school student, received Simons Fellowship to continue doing research in my

lab in summer 2012. • Undergraduate Reorganization Award, Teng Lin, Stony Brook University, 04/2011 • Undergraduate Reorganization Award, RongFeng Yu, Stony Brook University, April 2009 • First Place in the URECA Undergraduate Research Competition, Jurgen Shestani and Brian

Scully, Stony Brook University, April 2009

Departmental-level awards and honors received by students:

Best Poster Award, Wanl Zhou, Dept annual student research poster symposium, May 2013

Best poster Award, Junxiao Ai, Dept annual student research poster symposium, May 2013

Engineering Research Award, John Wang and Teng Lin, 05/2011

Senior Design Award, Jorge Lam Ki, XiaoHui Lei, and RuiHe Zheng, 05/2011

Senior Design Award, Jonh Wang, Joeseph Maldonado, and Yves Theusme, 05/2011

Best poster Award, G.R. Penamalli, Lin Teng, KaWing Ng, and Yinyin Cui, 05/2011

Best poster Award, Jingjin Xie, Jonh Wang and Joeseph Maldonado, 05/2011

Best Poster Award, Xiudong Tang, Min Wei Chen, Ethan Li, & Aaron Liu, April 2010

Senior Design Award, First Place, Min Wei Chen, Ethan Li, & Aaron Liu, May 2010


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Senior Design Award, 2nd place, Brian Bates, Dimauro Edwards,& Edwin Gonzalez, 5/2010

Senior Design Award, 2nd place, Zac Brindak, Hani Mubarez, & Chris Serano, 05/2010

Engineering Research Award, Chris Serano, Brian Bates, Edwin Gonzalez, May 2010

Professional and On-campus Services

Professional Service Activities

Editorship

o Technical Editor, IEEE/ASME Transaction on Mechatronics, 2014 –

o Associate Editor, ASME Journal of Vibration and Acoustics, 2014 –

o Associate Editor, IFAC journal Mechatronics, 2017 –

o Associate Editor, Journal of Shock and Vibration, 2014-2016

o Conference Editorial Board of ASME Dynamic Systems & Control Conference, 2012-14

o Conference Editorial Board of American Control Conference (ACC), 2012-2014

Technical Committee Member of

o ASME/DSCD Technical Committee on Mechatronics, 01/2013-, Secretary (2014), Conference chair (2015), Vice Chair (2016), Chair (2017)

o ASME/DED Technical Committee on Vibration and Sound (TCVS), 2011-2017

Chair of New Initiative Subcommittee, in charge of travel award (2014, 2015, 2016)

o ASME/DED Technical Committee of Advanced Vehicle Technologies, 08/2011-date Chair of Award Subcommittee (2013,2014,2015), Vice chair (2017) o ASME/DSCD Technical Committee of Vibration Control of Smart Structures, 11/2011-

Organizer of invited sessions in 2013 DSCC, 2014 MOVIC, 2015 DSCC

o ASME/IEEE Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications (MESA), 2008-2014

o Electoral College of the ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Division, 2012-date

Conference Organizing

o 2019 ASME IDETC, as the general program chair

o 2017 International Workshop on Piezoelectric Materials and Applications in Actuators (IWPMA)/12th Energy Harvesting Workshop (EHW)/1st Annual Energy Harvesting Society Meeting (AEHSM), Falls Church VA, 09/2017, as conference program chair,

o 2017 ASME IDETC Advanced Vehicle Technology Conference, as the conference chair

o 2017 American Control Conference, as a member of conference committee

o 2017 SPIE Smart Structure conference, as a technical committee member of Passive and Active Smart Structure.

o 2017 Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics conference, as a technical committee member

o 2016 ASME IDETC Advanced Vehicle Technology Conference, as the program chair

o 2016 ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference DSCC, as the industry chair.

o 2016 SPIE Smart Structure conference, as a technical committee member of Passive and Active Smart Structure.

o 2016 IEEE Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics Conference, in the editorial board

o 2016 International Symposium on Flexible Automation, as program committee member

o The 11th Energy Harvesting Workshop (2016), as a local organizing committee member

o 2015 ASME IDETC Advanced Vehicle Technology Conference, as conference co-chair

o 2015 and 2016 SPIE Smart Structures/NDE Conference: Active and Passive Smart Structures and Integrated Systems, March 8-12, 2015, San Diego, CA, as the technical committee member


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o 2014 ASME IDETC Advanced Vehicle Technology Conference, as conference co-chair

o 2014 Twelfth International Conference on Motion and Vibration Control (MOVIC 2014),4-6 August, 2014 in Sapporo, Japan, as International organization committee member.

Symposium Organizer or co-Organizer

ASME IDETC'2017 Co-organizer of Symposiums on vibration control and energy harvesting, vehicle system design

ASME IDETC'2016 Co-organizer of Symposiums on vibration control and energy harvesting, vehicle system design

ASME DSCC'2017 Co-organizer of Invited Sessions on energy harvesting, vibrations

ASME DSCC'2016 Co-organizer of Invited Sessions on energy harvesting, vibrations

ASME IDETC'2015, Co-organizer of Symposium on Vibration Control, Energy Harvesting, and Damping, Boston, Aug 2015 (~30 papers)

ASME DSCC'2015 invited sessions on Mechatronics and Energy Harvesting, Columbus OH (6 papers)

ASME IDETC'2014, Organizer of Symposium on Vibration Control, Energy Harvesting, and Damping, Buffalo, NY, Aug 17-20 2014 (~25 papers)

ASME DSCC'2014 invited sessions on Mechatronics and Energy Harvesting, San Antonia, TA, 2014 (10 papers)

ASME iDETC'2013 Symposium on Vibration Control, Energy Harvesting, and Damping, Portland, OR, 2013 (~25 papers)

ASME iDETC'2013 Symposium on Advances in Methods for Vehicle Systems Design, Portland, OR, 2013 (5 papers)

ASME DSCC'2013 invited sessions on Control and Monitoring of Vibratory Systems, Stanford University, CA, 2013 (30 papers)

ASME iDETC'2012 Symposium on Vibration Control, Energy Harvesting, and Damping. Chicago, IL 2012. (~30 pages)

ASME iDETC'2012 Symposium on Advances in Methods for Vehicle Systems Design,

Chicago, IL 2012. (5 papers)

ASME iDETC'2011 Symposium on Energy Harvesting, Washington DC, 2011 (~15 papers)

ASME/IEEE MESA’2012 Symposium on Biomechatronics, Suzhou. China, 2012 (4 papers)

ASME iDETC'2011 Symposium on Biomechatronics, Washington, DC, 2011 (~10 papers)

ASME IMEC'2010 Symposium on Dynamics and Control of Mechanisms and Robots, Vancouver, Canada, 2010 (30 papers)

ASME iDETC'2009 Symposium on Biomechatronics and Biosensors, San Diego, CA 2009

ASME IMEC'2009 Symposium on Dynamics and Control of Mechanisms and Robots, Lake Buena, FL, 2009 (~30 papers)

Session Chair or co-Chair

I have chaired or co-chaired many sessions in ASME IDETC, ASME DECC, ASME IMECE, ACC, and SPIE Smart Structures/NDE Conferences.

Grant Reviewer

National Science Foundation, Manufacturing Machine and Equipment (MME), panelist

National Science Foundation, Energy, Power, Control and Networks(EPCN),Career panelist

National Science Foundation, Dynamic Systems program, panelist

National Science Foundation, Hazard Mitigation & Structural Engineering, panelist

National Science Foundation, Control Systems program, panelist

National Science Foundation, Energy, Power, and Adaptive Systems, panelist

National Science Foundation, office of International Science and Engineering, 2011

Department of Energy, SBIR program, 2011, 2016, 2017


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Canada Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), 2011, 2013, 2014

HongKong Innovation and Technology Commission, 2015, 2016, 2017

Proposal review for Sultan Qaboos University, Oman, 2015

Proposal review for Kansas NSF EPSCOR, 2015

Maryland Industrial Partnership, Maryland, 2010, 2011

Northland Advanced Transportation Systems Research Lab(NATSRL),Minnesota, 2011,2012

Book reviewer for IGI Publications, John Wiley & Sons

Journal Paper reviewer for over 30 academic journals

ASME Journal of Vibration and Acoustics ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control

ASME Journal of Heat Transfer Smart Materials and Structures, Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, Journal of Sound and Vibration Journal of Vibration Control IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics IEEE Transaction on Control System Technology IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control IEEE Transactions on Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control IEEE Sensors Journal IFAC Control Engineering Practice, International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture, International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, Nonlinear Dynamics,

Journal of Low Frequency Noise, Vibration and Active Control Journal of MEMS, PLOS, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, Sensors & Actuators: A. Physical, Transportation Research Part C, Proc. IMechE, Part D: Journal of Automobile Engineering etc

Conference Paper reviewer for over 30 technical conferences, including

ASME Design Engineering Technical Conferences, ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress, IEEE Conferences on Decision and Control, American Control Conferences, IFAC World Congresses, etc.

Membership of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), since 2001

Membership of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), since 2001

On-Campus Service Activities

At Stony Brook University

Department Chair Search Committee, 11/2013-2014

Department Faculty Search Committee in Robotics, 11/2013-2014

Faculty Search Committees (3): in civil engineering, in design, and in smart energy cluster, 2013

Faculty co-advisor, ASME Stony Brook Chapter, 2011-

College Admission Committee of Engineering Scholars for Medicine, 2010 –

Department Seminar Coordinator, 09/2009 – 01/2011


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Department Undergraduate Program Committee, 09/2008 – 08/2012

Department Graduate Program Committee, 09/2012 –

Department Graduate Poster Symposium, Founding organizer, April 2009; co-organizer 2010 and 2011

At Virginia Tech

Department Faculty Search Committee Chair in Energy, 09/2015-05/2016

Department Strategic Plan Committee, 11/2015-

Department Faculty Search Committee in Robotics, 10/2014-05/2015

Local Organization Committee, the 10th Energy Harvesting Workshop, Blacksburg VA, 09/2015.

Local Organization Committee, the 11th Energy Harvesting Workshop, Blacksburg VA, 09/2016.

Mentor of two junior faculty members, 09/2017-

Documents

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