director, nsf i/ucrc center for energy harvesting materials...

Lei Zuo, Robert E. Hord Jr. Professor, Virginia Tech, 08/2020

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Lei Zuo, Robert E. Hord Jr. Professor, ASME Fellow

Director, Energy Harvesting and Mechatronics Research Lab

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

Email: [email protected], Phone: (540) 231-7270, Cell: (847) 287-6887

Chief Research Scientist, Earth Systems Science Division, Energy and Environment Directorate

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA 99354

Quick Highlights:

Awards: 2017 ASME Leonardo Da Vinci Award/Medal (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: $15.6M (74 projects) in total as PI and co-PI since 2008 ($13M as PI, my share $10.1M).

At VT since 2014: $11.4M (51 projects) in total as PI ($9.7M) and co-PI, my share $7.7M).

Publications: 300 papers in journals and conferences (130 in journals), including six best paper and

two best student paper awards. H-index 37, i10-index 115, Google citations over 5800.

Advising: advising 7 PhD students, 7 MS students, 3 postdocs; graduated 15 PhDs (3 became

faculty) and 47 MS (22 with thesis & 25 with projects); advised 12 postdocs (4 are faculty),

mentored 150+ 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. General co-Chair for 2019

ASME IDETC/CIE Conference. Technical committees: mechatronics (past chair), vehicle design

(chair), energy harvesting (chair), vibration and sound (former travel award chair).

Research Interests

Marine renewable energy, Energy harvesting, Mechatronics design, Vibration control, Vehicles and

transportation, Offshore wind, Advanced manufacturing, Smart structures and sensors, Nuclear sensing

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Mechanical Engineering PhD, 02/2005

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Electrical Engineering MS, 02/2002

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Mechanical Engineering MS, 02/2002

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

Experience

08/2014-Present Robert E. Hord Jr. Professor (04/2020-), Professor (07/2017-03/2020),

Associate Professor (08/2014-06/2017), J R. Jones III Faculty Fellow, 2016-

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

Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA

Director (05/2018- ), Associate Director (2014-2018), NSF I/UCRC Center for

Energy Harvesting Materials and Systems (CEHMS), a NSF funded consortium

mailto:[email protected]


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with industry, national lab and government members, over $1M annual

membership fees currently. Columbia University joined in the CEHMS center as a

site in 07/2017 and Penn State University in CEHMS as a site in 12/2019

2008-2014 Associate Professor (10/2013 - 08/2014, early tenure promotion), Assistant

Professor (08/2008-09/2013), Dept. of Mechanical Engineering

State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook, NY

2004-2008 Associate Research Investigator (1/2008-8/2008), Senior Research Scientist

(11/2004-12/2007), 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

Honors and Awards

Robert E. Hord Jr. Endowed Professorship, Virginia Tech, 2020-2025

Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research, College of Engineering, Virginia Tech, 05/2018

Design and Development Award, Virginia Tech, 11/2018 (for online course development)

2017 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”)

“Outstanding Performance in Externally Sponsored Research in 2016-2017”, Mechanical

Engineering Department, Virginia Tech, 10/2017

ASME Fellow, Selected in 2016

John R. Jones III Faculty Fellow, Virginia Tech, 2016-2020

“Inventor of the Month”, Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, July 2016

“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.

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”,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 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


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Best Paper Awards:

o 2019 ASME Best Paper Award on Vibration Applications, ASME Dynamic System and

Control Division Vibration Technical Committee, 10/2019

o Finalist of 2019 ASME Dynamic System and Control (DSCC) Best Student Paper Award,

10/2019



o 2018 ASME Best Paper Award on Advanced Modeling and Simulation by the ASME

IDETC/CIE, Computers and Information in Engineering Division, 08/2018



o 2017 ASME Best Paper Award in Vibration, ASME Dynamic System and Control Division

Vibration Technical Committee, 10/2017

o 2016 JTST Best Paper Honorable Mention (for "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)

o 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)

o 2013 ASME VDTC 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)

o 2013 ASME MESA 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)

o 2012 ASME DSCC Finalist of Semi-Plenary Presentations, ASME Dynamic Systems and

Control Conference, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 10/2012

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

2011 (Papers were chosen on the basis of referee endorsement, novelty, and scientific impact.)

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

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

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”


& Storage USA 2011 conference, Nov 15-16, 2011, Boston, MA (with T-B Xu), for “hybrid

piezoelectric energy harvesting”


& Storage USA 2010 conference, Nov 16-17, 2010, Cambridge, MA.


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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

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

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

Research Funding ($15,639,843 as PI or co-PI since 09/2008, $13M as the PI, my share $10.1M.)

Active Projects (18)

# Agency Title PI and co-PI Period Funding

1 DOE/ NYSERDA

Dual-Functional Tuned Inerter Damper for

Enhanced Semi-Sub Offshore Wind

Turbine

Lei Zuo (PI, 75%)

and Biao Fang

(GE)

10/2020 –

04/2023

$800,000

2 DOE

STTR

DOE STTR Phase I: A Self-reactive

Marine Energy Converter to Power Ocean

Aquaculture

L Zuo (PI, 40%), J

Lou (E-Wave), R Cordero (InnovaSea)

07/2020 –

06/2021

$200,000

3 DOE Floating oscillating surge wave energy

converter using controllable efficient

power takeoff system

D. Hajj (PI, S.I.T.),

L Zuo (co-PI), M.

Gay (co-PI, RME)

05/2020-

11/2021

$1,800,000

($710,000

my share)

4 NSF Collaborative Research: GOALI: Bio-

inspired energy harvesting for fish

telemetry tags

Lei Zuo (lead PI),

M. Hajj (S.I.T.), D.

Deng (PNNL), P.

Kuechle (ATS)

09/2019-

08/2022

$490,304

($290,304

my share)

5 NSF Creating Ocean Wave Powered Resilient

FEW Systems in Saline Coastal Regions

Lei Zuo (PI, 80%),

D. Lee

09/2019-

08/2023

$500,000

6 NSF Collaborative Research: Net-Shape and

Scalable Additive Manufacturing for

Thermoelectric Waste Heat Recovery

Materials and Devices using Selective

Laser Melting

Lei Zuo (lead PI),

Sheng Shen

(CMU), Jihui Yang

(UW)

07/2019-

06/2022

$696,780

($255,650

my share)

7 EPA Portable Desalination Using Ocean and

Solar Energy

Lei Zuo (PI, 100%) 09/2019-

08/2021

$25,000

(phase I)

8 Sandia

National

Lab

Integrated Design and Control of an

Efficient Power Takeoff using Active

Motion Rectifier (via CEHMS)

Lei Zuo (PI, 100%) (contract in

processing)

09/2020-

09/2021

$40,000

9 4-VA Power Blue Economy using Ocean Energy

Harvesting

Lei Zuo (PI, 83%),

and R Zimmerman,

03/2020-

03/2021

$30,000

10 Shenzhen

Qingyan

Stabilizing Off-shore Floating Wind

Platform Using Dual-functional Wave

Energy Converter (via CEHMS)

Lei Zuo (PI, 100%) 1/2020-

12/2022

$80,000

11 DOE/

NREL

BlueLink (DOE NOAA Ocean Observing

Prize Competition)

Lei Zuo (PI) and Y.

Yang (co-PI)

5/2020-

05/2021

$10,000

(for phase I)

12 DOE/

NREL

Wave Drinker: Ocean Wave Powered

Seawater Desalination (DOE Wave to

Water Prize Competition)

Lei Zuo (PI, 70%),

and Shihong Lin

(Vanderbilt)

1/2020-

01/2021

$57,000

(for phases I

and II)


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13 ONR Energy Harvesting Backpack with High

Specific Power and Broadband using a

Dual Mass-inerter and Mechanical Motion

Rectification

Lei Zuo (PI, 80%)

and R. Queen

06/2018-

05/2021

$528,314

14 USAID-

Egypt Evaluation of Combinations of Energy

Harvesting and Desalination Technologies

L Zuo (50%), M.

Hajj

04/2018-

03/2021

$148,129

15 iDriver

Plus Ltd

Autonomous Vehicle Decision and Control

using P2V Technology (via CEHMS)

Lei Zuo (PI, 100%) 11/2018-

12/2020

$80,000

16 NSF Phase II IUCRC Virginia Tech: Center for

Energy Harvesting Materials and Systems

L. Zuo (PI), M.

Hajj, S. Priya, D.

Ha, S. Shahab

08/2017-

07/2022

$500,000

17 DOE Self-powered Wireless Through-wall Data

Communication for Nuclear Environments

Lei Zuo (PI, 43%)

H. Zhang, R.

Kisner, D. Ha

10/2016-

09/2020 (extension)

$1,000,000

18 CRRC

Inc

Vibration Energy Harvester for Railcar

(via CEHMS)

Lei Zuo (PI, 100%) 02/2016-

12/2020

$168,000

Completed Projects (56)

56 DOE Ocean Wave Energy Harvesting Lei Zuo (PI,

55%)

Parker, K. Ngo

03/2016-

04/2020

$2,000,00

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55 DOE/

NREL

Hybrid wave-current energy converter

for powering the blue economy (DOE

marine energy collegiate competition)

Lei Zuo (PI,

100%)

1/2020-

07/2020

$15,000

54 DOE/

NREL

Oscillating surge wave energy converter

for powering the blue economy (one of

the top 20 teams DOE energy marine

energy collegiate competition)

Huiming Yin

(PI, Columbia

Univ), Lei Zuo

(co PI)

1/2020-

07/2020

$15,000

53 DOE/

NREL

MMR-based point absorber wave energy

converter for powering the blue economy

(one of the top 20 teams for DOE energy

marine energy collegiate competition)

S. Brizzolara

(PI), Lei Zuo

(co PI)

1/2020-

07/2020

$15,000

52 CRCF

(VA)

Ocean Wave Energy Harvesting Lei Zuo (PI),

Ngo, Parker

7/2016-

4/2020

$100,000

51 ONR DURIP: Acquisition of a Laser Powder

Bed Fusion System to Transform the

Additive Manufacturing Value Chain

Chris Williams

(PI, 20%), Lei

Zuo (20%),

James Kong

(15%), et al

03/2019-

03/2020

$270,000

50 Westing-

house Inc

Fabrication of multilayer ceramic

capacitors for radiation resistance and

temperature stability (via CEHMS)

D. Viehland

(PI), L Zuo

(30%)

1/2019-

05/2020

$60,000

49 European

Union

Marinet2

Simultaneous Ocean Wave and Current

Energy Harvesting using a Single Power

Takeoff System

Lei Zuo (PI)

and Rob Parker

04/2019-

09/2019

2 weeks

of wave

basin time

48 DOT/

UTC

Autonomous Emergency Navigation to a

Safe Roadside Location

T. Furukawa

(PI), L.Zuo

01/2018-

01/2020

$128,789


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(25%), Parker,

Zoerzaph

47 NSF China Technology and Innovation of One-way

Rotating Electromagnetic Vibration

Energy Harvester for Railroad

Lei Zuo (PI) 12/2017-

12/2019

¥180,000

($27,000

)

46 SWTJU Key technology and the dynamic

coupling between rail track and energy

harvesting

Lei Zuo (PI) 12/2017-

12/2019

¥150,000

($25,000

)

45 US Army Energy Harvesting Backpack Lei Zuo (PI) 05/2016-

6/2017

$169,277

44 VT, SEC,

ICAT,

ICATS

Smart Drill Field: Energy Harvesting and

Lighting

Hajj, McGrath,

Zuo (30%), Ishida,

Kennedy

03/2016-

03/2019

$96,000

43 DOT/

UTRC-II Mitigation of Transportation Induced

Vibration Using Seismic Metamaterials

L. Wang (PI) ,

Lei Zuo (20%)

10/2016-

12/2017

$50,000

42 NSF REU Supplement for GOALI: Energy

Efficient and Reliable Motion Mechanism

for Ocean Wave Energy Harvesting

Lei Zuo (PI) Summer

2016

$10,000

41 DOE DOE NEUP fellowship Zuo’s Student

Jackson Klein

06/2016-

05/2017

$50,000

40 CRCF Railroad Energy Harvesting System Lei Zuo (PI ) 7/2016-

6/2018

$100,000

39 CRCF Ultra-High Energy Efficiency Footwear

Power Generators

T. Xu (PI), L

Zuo (co-PI,40%)

7/2016-

10/2017

$100,000

38 ICATS

ERC

planning

initiative

ICATS ERC planning initiative: ERC for

Data Analytics for the Design, Modeling

and Monitoring of Physical Systems

Hajj (PI),

Ramakrishnan,

Zuo (20%), et al

12/2016-

12/2017

$60,000

37 ICTAS

energy&

materials

initiative

Smart Building and Smart City Rahman, Zuo

(20%), Little,

Dhillon, Kuzlu

05/2016-

12/2017

$50,000

25 NSF GOALI: Collaborative Research: Energy

harvesting nanorods-enhanced MEMS

temperature-insensitive gas sensor for

combustion monitoring and control

Lei Zuo (PI,

100%)

07/2015-

12/2019 (no-cost

extension)

$150,000

36 NSF NeTS: Small: Long-range Ocean

Communication Links Powered by

Energy Harvesting

Y. Yang (PI) L

Zuo (33%), M.

Manteghi

10/2015-

09/2018

$200,000

35 NSF REU Supplement for GOALI: Energy

Efficient and Reliable Motion Mechanism

for Ocean Wave Energy Harvesting

Lei Zuo (PI) Summer

2015

$4,000

34 Abbvie Inc Development of high throughput

miniaturized calorimeter for

pharmaceutical R&D

Lei Zuo (PI,

100%)

05/2015-

05/2019

$258,176

33 CRCF Energy-Harvesting Controllable Vehicle

Suspensions

Lei Zuo (PI),

Ngo, Corina,

07/2015-

3/2017

$100,000


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Southward, Ahmadian

32 Crystal

Instrum.

Vibration Control and Dynamic Analyzer

(Equipment)

Lei Zuo (PI,

100%)

02/2015 $40,000

31 DOE Self-powered Wireless Dual-mode

Langasite Sensor for

Pressure/Temperature Monitoring of

Nuclear Reactors

Lei Zuo (PI), H.

Zhang, J. Lian

02/2014-

10/2018

$800,000

30 NSF GOALI: Energy Efficient and Reliable

Motion Mechanism for Ocean Wave

Energy

Lei Zuo (PI) 09/2014-

08/2018

$300,000

29 Power

Bridge NY

Electromagnetic Railway Energy

Harvester

Lei Zuo (PI), 04/2014-

4/2016

$150,000

28 ONR High-Power-Density Portable

Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters (SBU

changed the PI when I moved to VT and I

didn’t involve in this project any more.)

Lei Zuo ( sole PI

at SBU 63%), T.

Xu (at NIA

27%)

02/2014-

02/2017

$556,356

27 SUNY/RF Energy-Harvesting Speed Bump Lei Zuo (PI) 2014-2014 $7,000

26 Tsinghua

Univ.

Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting from

Vehicle Exhaust Heat

Lei Zuo (PI) 2014-2015 ¥100,000

($15,000)

25 Abbott Inc MED64 microelectrdoe array system

(Equipment)

Lei Zuo (PI,

100%)

01/2014 $100,000

24 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

23 EPA Ocean Wave Energy Harvester with a

Novel Power Takeoff Mechanism

Lei Zuo (PI) 08/2013-

8/2016

$105,000

22 NSF IDBR: Development of Ultrasensitive,

Superfast, and Microliter-Volume

Differential Scanning Nanocalorimeter

for Direct Characterization of

Biomolecular Interactions

Lei Zuo (PI) 01/2013-

12/2017

$300,000

21 NYSERDA Development and Commercialization of

Energy-Harvesting Controllable

Suspension Systems

Lei Zuo (PI) 2013-2016 $249,914

20 SUNY/RF Innovative Power Takeoff for Ocean

Wave Energy Harvesting

Lei Zuo (PI), X.

Wang, Warkentine

2013-2014 $100,000

19 SBU-BNL Ocean Wave Energy Harvesting, 2013

SBU BNL Seed Grant (Competitive)

Lei Zuo (PI), X

Wang, and

Butcher

2013-2014 $40,000

18 DOE Thermoelectric-Driven Sustainable

Sensing and Actuation Systems for Fault-

Tolerant Nuclear Incidents

J Longtin (PI), L

Zuo (25%),

Hwang, Chyu

10/2012-

09/2015

$599,802

17 NYSERDA Energy Harvesting from Railway

Vibration for Trackside Electrification

Lei Zuo (PI) 2012-2015 $187,651


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16 NYSERDA Innovative Manufacturing Approach to

Fabricate Thermoelectric Devices

Directly onto Waste Heat Components

J Longtin (PI), Lei Zuo (25%),

and D.Hwang

2012-2013 $100,000

15 DOT On-road Energy Harvesting for Traffic

Monitoring

Lei Zuo (PI), X.

Ban

2012-2014 $50,000

14 Ford Motor Energy Regeneration and Damper Control

Using Energy-Harvesting Absorbers

Lei Zuo (PI,

100%)

2012-2017 $25,000

13 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

12 DOT Energy Harvesting from Railway Track

Vibrations

Lei Zuo (PI) 2011-2013 $50,000

11 DOT Faculty Development Minigrant Award Lei Zuo (PI) 2011-2012 $6,465

10 NYSERDA Vehicle Thermoelectric Energy Recovery:

Assessment of Waste Heat Sources

Lei Zuo (PI),

Longtin, and

Sampath

2011-2012 $50,000

9 SUNY/RF Technology Commercialization of

Vibration Energy Harvesting for

Transportation

Lei Zuo (PI) 2011-2014 $150,000

8 SBU-BNL Thermoelectric Waste Heat Recovery,

2011 SBU BNL Seed Grant

(Competitive)

Lei Zuo (PI)),

Longtin, and

Sampath

2011-2013 $60,000

7 SBU

Energy

Equipment Fund from SBU Advanced

Energy Research and Technology Center

Lei Zuo (PI) 2011-2012 $180,000

6 SBU VP

Admin.

Speed Bump Energy Harvesting, support

from SBU Sr. VP of Administration,

Lei Zuo (PI)) 2011-2012 $6,000

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

4 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 B Li

10/2010-

09/2015

$530,535

3 NSF Vibration Control of Tall Buildings using

Electricity Generating Tuned Mass

Dampers

Lei Zuo (PI) 09/2010-

08/2015

$260,000

2 Electric

Truck LLC

Energy harvesting from rail tracks Lei Zuo (PI,

100%)

08/2010-

072012

$47,093

1 NYSERDA Regenerative Shock Absorbers for Energy

Harvesting from Vehicle Suspensions

Lei Zuo (PI) 2009-2012 $81,000


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Publications in Journals and Proceedings (297, including 127 in journals)

Journal papers published/accepted (127 total)

Year 2020

1. XiaofanLi, Changwei Liang, Chien-An Chen, Qiuchi Xiong, Robert G Parker, Lei Zuo “Optimum

Power Analysis of a Self-Reactive Wave Energy Point Absorber with Mechanically-driven Power

Takeoffs”, Energy, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2020.116927, 2020

2. Chien-An Chen, XiaofanLi, Lei Zuo, Khai Ngo, “Circuit Modelling of the Mechanical-Motion-

Rectifier for Electrical Simulation of Ocean Wave Power Take-off”, IEEE Trans. Industrial

Electronics, 2020

3. Boxi Jiang, Xiaofan Li, Shuo Chen, Qiuchi Xiong, Bang-fuh Chen, Robert G Parker, Lei Zuo,

“Performance Analysis and Tank Test Validation of a Hybrid Ocean Wave-Current Energy

Converter with a Single Power Takeoff”, Energy Conversion and Management, 2020

4. Xiaofan Li, Dillon Martin, Changwei Liang, ChienAn Chen, Khai Ngo, Robert Parker, Lei Zuo,

A Compact Mechanical Power Take-off for Wave Energy Converters: Design, Analysis, and

Test Verification, Applied Energy, 2020

5. Yamini Sharma, Mingyi Liu, Hyunjun Jung, Lei Zuo, "Adaptive damping tuning and circuit

implementation for broad bandwidth energy harvesting", Smart Materials and Structures, accepted.

6. Xiaofan Li, Dillon Martin, Changwei Liang, ChienAn Chen, Khai Ngo, Robert Parker, Lei Zuo,

“Characterization and Verification of a Two-body Wave Energy Converter with a Novel Power

Take-off”, Renewable Energy, accepted.

7. Luigi Costanzo, Alessandro Lo Schiavo, Massimo Vitelli, Teng Lin, Weihan Lin, Lei Zuo, “Power

Electronic Interface with an Adaptive MPPT Technique for Train Suspension Energy Harvesters”,

IEEE Trans. Industrial Electronics, 2020

8. Mingyi Liu, Wei-Che Tai, Lei Zuo, "Enhancing the Performance of Backpack Energy Harvester

Using Nonlinear Inerter Based Two-degree-of-freedom Design" Smart Materials and Structures,

v29 n2, 2020

9. Ziang Feng, Shuo Yang, Sixian Jia, Yujing Zhang, Shan Jiang, Li Yu, Rui Li, Guowen Song, Anbo

Wang, Thomas Martin, Lei Zuo, Xiaoting Jia, “Scalable, washable and lightweight triboelectric-

energy-generating fibers by the thermal drawing process for industrial loom weaving”, Nano

Energy, 2020

10. Feng Qian, M. Hajj, and Lei Zuo, “Bio-inspired bi-stable piezoelectric harvester for broadband

vibration energy harvesting”, Energy Conversion and Management, 2020

11. Feng Qian, Shengxi Zhou, and Lei Zuo, Approximate solutions and their stability analysis of a

broadband piezoelectric energy harvester with tunable potential function, Communications in

Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, v80, 2020

12. Feng Qian and Lei Zuo, Improving the off-resonance energy harvesting performance using dynamic

magnetic pre-stress, Acta Mechanica Sinica, 2020

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37 33

115 100

Since 2014

Citations per year (07/17/2020)


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13. Feng Qian, Nicole Abaid, Lei Zuo, “Multiple-scale analysis of a novel piezoelectric energy

harvester with a tunable potential function”, ASME Letters in Dynamic Systems and Control, 2020

14. Mingyi Liu, Wei-Che Tai, Lei Zuo, Vibration Energy-Harvesting Using Inerter-based Two-

Degrees-of-Freedom System, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 2020

15. Xiaoqiang Xu, Yongjia Wu, Lei Zuo, Shikui Chen, “Topology optimization of multimaterial

thermoelectric structures”, ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, Feb 2021

16. Long Wu, Lei Zuo, and Kun-Chieh Wang, “Novel Method of Forecasting Performance of Full

Vehicle Suspension by Decoupling Analysis and Vibration Sensing Experiments”, Sensors and

Materials, 2020

17. Hongjip Kim; Oumar Barry; Lei Zuo, “Self Tuning Energy Harvesting using Sliding Mass:

Influences of Nonlinear Coupling and Key Parameters”, Journal of Sound and Vibration, minor

revision

18. Jia Mi, Qiaofeng Li, Mingyi Liu, Xiaofan Li, Lei Zuo, “Design, Modelling, and Treadmill Tests of

a Novel Suspended Energy-harvesting Backpack using Half-wave Mechanical Rectification”,

Applied Energy, accepted.

19. Qiaofeng Li, Xiaofan Li, Jia Mi, Boxi Jiang, Shuo Chen, Qiuchi Xiong, and Lei Zuo, A tunable

wave energy converter using variable inertia flywheel, IEEE Transaction on Sustainable Energy, in

revision

20. Yifan Luo, Hongxin Sun, Xiuyong Wang, Anhua Chen, Lei Zuo, Parametric optimization of

electromagnetic tuned inerter damper for structural vibration suppression, Structural Control and

Health Monitoring, minor revision

21. Yongjia Wu, Kan Sun, Shifeng Yu, Lei Zuo, Modeling the Selective Laser Melting-Based Additive

Manufacturing of Thermoelectric Powders, Additive Manufacturing, minor revision 

Year 2019

22. Dillon Martin, Xiaofan Li, Chien-An Chen, Krish Thiagarajan, Khai Ngo, Robert Parker, Lei Zuo,

“Numerical Analysis and Wave Tank Testing on the Optimal Design of a Two-Body Wave Energy

Converter”, Renewable Energy, DOI 10.1016/j.renene.2019.05.109, 2019

23. 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, 2019.

24. E Al Shami, X Wang, R Zhang, L Zuo, “A parameter study and optimization of two body wave

energy converter”, Renewable Energy, V131, 1-13, 2019

25. Hong-Xiang Zou, Lin-Chuan Zhao, Qiu-Hua Gao, Lei Zuo, Feng-Rui Liu, Ting Tan, Ke-Xiang

Wei, Wen-Ming Zhang, “Mechanical modulations for enhancing energy harvesting: Principles,

methods and applications”, Applied Energy, 2019

26. Olivia McGee, Huan Jiang, Feng Qian, Zian Jia, Lifeng Wang, Han Meng, Dimitrios Chronopoulos,

Yanyu Chen, and Lei Zuo “3D printed architected hollow sphere foams with low-frequency

phononic band gaps”, Additive Manufacturing, 2019

27. Hongjip Kim, Wei Che Tai, Jason Parker, Lei Zuo, “Self-tuning Stochastic Resonance Energy

Harvesting for Rotating Systems under Modulated Noise and Its Application to Smart Tires”,

Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, DOI 10.1016/j.ymssp.2018.12.040, 2019

28. Yu Pan, Fengwei Liu, Ruijin Jiang, Zhiwen Tu, Lei Zuo, “Modeling and On-board Test of an

Electromagnetic Energy Harvester for Railway Freight Train”, Applied Energy, 2019

29. F. Qian, T. Xu, Lei Zuo, “Material equivalence modeling and experimental validation of a

piezoelectric boot energy harvester”, Smart Materials and Structures, 2019


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30. Y Wu, S Yu, L Zuo, “Large eddy simulation analysis of the heat transfer enhancement using self-

oscillating fluidic oscillators”, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 131, 463-471,

2019

31. Wu, J Klein, H Zhou, H Zhang, L Zuo, “Energy harvesting for wireless communications in nuclear

environment”, Annals of Nuclear Energy 126, 376-388, 2019

32. Yu Pan, Teng Lin, Feng Qian, Cheng Liu, Jie Yu, Jianyong Zuo, Lei Zuo, “Modeling and field-

test of a compact electromagnetic energy harvester for railroad transportation”, Applied Energy,

2019

33. Yu, Shifeng, Shuyu Wang, Ming Lu and Lei Zuo. "Thermodynamic analysis of a MEMS based

DSC model." Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 2019

34. Hongxin Sun, Xiuyong Wang, Jian Peng, Lei Zuo, Exact H2 optimal solutions to inerter-based

isolation systems for building structure, Structural Control and Health Monitoring, 2019

35. Feng Qian, Yifan Luo, Hongxin Sun, WeiChe Tai, and Lei Zuo, Optimal tuned inerter dampers for

performance enhancement of vibration isolation, Engineering Structures, 2019

36. Feng Qian, Tian-Bing Xu, and Lei Zuo, Piezoelectric energy harvesting from human walking using

a two-stage amplification mechanism, Energy, 2019

37. Y Chen, F Qian, F Scarpa, L Zuo, X Zhuang, Harnessing multi-layered soil to design seismic

metamaterials with ultralow frequency band gaps, Materials & Design, 175, 2019

Year 2018 (19)

38. 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”, Applied Energy, V229, pp672-

699 2018

39. 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, March, 2018

40. R Zhang, X Wang, E Al Shami, S John, L Zuo, CH Wang, “A novel indirect-drive regenerative

shock absorber for energy harvesting and comparison with a conventional direct-drive regenerative

shock absorber”, Applied Energy 229, 111-127, 2018

41. 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,

Feb 2018 (Highlighted as a feature story at the Science Trends website.)

42. Yalu Pei, Yilun Liu, Lei Zuo, “Multi-resonant Electromagnetic Shunt in Base Isolation for

Vibration Damping and Energy Harvesting”, Journal of Sound and Vibration, 2018,

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsv.2018.02.041, (5-Year Impact Factor: 2.955)

43. Yongjia Wu, Haifeng Zhang, Lei Zuo, "Thermoelectric energy harvesting for the gas turbine

sensing and monitoring system ", Energy Conversion and Management, Feb, 2018

44. Yongjia Wu, Shikui Chen, Jihui Yang, Lei Zuo, “Thermo-element geometry optimization for high

thermoelectric efficiency”. Energy, March, 2018

45. Jose Cordova, Xin Wang, Dong-Liang Xie, Lei Zuo, Control of Communications-Dependent

Cascading Failures in Power Grids, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2018

46. Feng Qian, TianBing Xu, and Lei Zuo, Design optimization and testing of a piezoelectric footwear

energy harvester, Energy Conversion and Management, 171, 1352-1364, 2018

47. Tiankai Yao, Fengyuan Lu, Haifeng Zhang, Wei Ji, Lei Zuo and Jie Lian, Radiation-induced

amorphization of Langasite La3Ga5SiO14, Journal of Nuclear Materials, March, 2018

48. 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


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49. Shengxi Zhou and Lei Zuo, “Nonlinear dynamic analysis of asymmetric tristable energy harvesters

for enhanced energy harvesting”, Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation,

2018, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cnsns.2018.02.017

50. Feng Qian, Wanlu Zhou, Suresh Kaluvan, Haifeng Zhang, Lei Zuo, Theoretical modeling and

experimental validation of a torsional piezoelectric vibration energy harvesting system”, Smart

Materials and Structures, 2018, https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-665X/aab160

51. WC Tai, M Liu, Y Yuan, L Zuo, “On improvement of operation bandwidth of nonlinear vibration-

based energy harvesters using a mechanical motion rectifier”, ASME Journal of Vibration and

Acoustics, 2018

52. Yuan, Y., Liu, M., Tai, W. C., and Zuo, L., Design and Treadmill Test of a Broadband Energy

Harvesting Backpack with a mechanical motion rectifier, ASME Journal of Mechanical Design,

2018

53. Chen Zhang, Suresh Kaluvan, Haifeng Zhang, Guoan Wang, and Lei Zuo, “Langmuir- Sauerbrey

Adsorption Modelling and Experimental Validation for Quartz Crystal Resonator based Low-

Pressure CO2 Gas Sensors”, Measurement, April 2018

54. Feng Qian, Tianbing Xu, Lei Zuo, “A distributed-parameter model for the piezoelectric stack

harvester subjected to general periodic and random excitations”, Engineering Structures, 2018

55. Lin, T., Wang, J., and Zuo, L., “Efficient Electromagnetic Energy Harvester for Railroad

Transportation”, Mechatronics, 53, 277-286, 2018

56. Mingyi Liu, Wei-Che Tai, Lei Zuo, The Influence of Rotational Inertia on Energy Harvesting and

Toward Broadband Vibrational Energy Harvesting via Mass Nonlinearity, Smart Materials and

Structures, 2018

Year 2017 (20)

57. 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

58. C Liang, L Zuo, “On the dynamics and design of a two-body wave energy converter”, Renewable

Energy 101, 265-274, 2017

59. 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

60. 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

61. M. Krishnasamy, Feng Qian, T. R. Lenka, and Lei Zuo, “Distributed Parameter Models for

Segmented Piezoelectric Harvesters to Prevent Charge Cancellation”, Solid State Electronics,

2017, DOI: 10.1016/j.sse.2017.12.010

62. Wei Che Tai, Lei Zuo, On the optimization condition for energy harvesting from base vibration,

Journal of Sound and Vibration, 2017

63. 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

64. Jackson Klein, Lei Zuo, Design and Experimental Study of a Velocity Amplified Electromagnetic

Vibration Energy Harvester, Smart Materials and Structures, 2017

65. 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.

66. 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


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67. 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

68. 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

69. 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.

70. 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

71. 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

72. Shifeng Yu, Shuyu Wang, Ming Lu, Lei Zuo. Review of MEMS Differential Scanning Calorimetry

for Biomolecular Study, Frontiers of Mechanical Engineering, 2017 (Editor’s recommendation

for open access without charging)

73. 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

74. 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, 2017

75. 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

76. 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

Year 2016 (15)

77. “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.

78. “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

79. “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.

80. “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

81. "Broadband Pendulum Energy Harvester", Changwei Liang, You, Wu; Lei, Zuo. Smart Materials

and Structures, Vol 25, n9, 2016

82. “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

83. “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


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84. “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

85. “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.

86. “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

87. "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, Sept 2016

88. "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, Vol

10, 2016

89. “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

90. “Design and Fabrication of Differential Scanning NanoCalorimeter”, Lei Zuo, Xiaoming Chen,

Shifeng Yu, and Ming Lu, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, 2016.

91. “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 (invited paper)

Year 2015 (6)

92. “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

93. “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.

94. “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

95. “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

96. "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)

97. 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

Year 2014 and Earlier

98. “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

99. "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

100. “Design and Optimization of Tubular Linear Electromagnetic Vibration Energy Harvesters”, X.

Tang. T. Lin, and L. Zuo, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 2014


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101. “Large-scale Vibration Energy Harvesting” L. Zuo and X. Tang, Journal of Intelligent Material

Systems and Structures, Vol 24 no 11, 2013

102. “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)

103. "Energy Harvesting, Ride Comfort, and Road Handling of Regenerative Vehicle Suspensions”,

L. Zuo and P. Zhang, ASME Journal of Vibration and Acoustics, v135, 2013. (Top 10 most cited

paper in the past two years in JVA)

104. “Electromagnetic Energy-Harvesting Shock Absorbers: Design, Modeling and Road Tests”, Z.

Li, L. Zuo, et al., IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol62, 2013

105. "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

106. “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

107. “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.

108. "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

109. "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.

110. “Dynamics and control of ocean wave energy converters”, J. Xie and L. Zuo, International

Journal of Dynamics and Control, vol 1 n3, 2013

111. “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)

112. “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

113. "Vibration Energy Harvesters under Random Force and Motion Excitations ", X. Tang and L.

Zuo, Smart Materials and Structures, Vol 21, 2012

114. “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

115. "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)

116. "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)

117. “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)

118. “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)


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119. 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.

120. 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 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)

121. 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.

122. 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.

123. 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.

124. 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.

125. Seismic Isolation Enhancements for Initial and Advanced LIGO, with R. Abbott, A. Adhikari, et

al, Classic and Quantum Gravity, v21, 2004, pp 915-921.

126. 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,

127. 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.

128. 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)

129. 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)

130. 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)

Conference papers (170)

2020

1. Yu Pan, Mehdi Ahmadian, Lei Zuo, Design and bench tests of smart railroad tie for energy

harvesting, 2020 ASME Joint Rail Conference (JRC2020), accepted

2. A Hosseini-Fahraji, K Zeng, X Li, P Loghmannia, Yaling Yang, M Manteghi, L Zuo, “Energy

Harvesting Long-Range Marine Communication”, IEEE INFOCOM 2020, accepted

3. Luigi Costanzo, Alessandro Lo Schiavo, Massimo Vitelli, Lei Zuo, “Train Suspension Energy

Harvesting System Maximizing the Output DC Power”, International Conference ISCAS 2020

(IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems)

4. Feng Qian and Lei Zuo, “A Novel Bi-Stable Piezoelectric Energy Harvester Inspired by the Venus

Flytrap”, ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and

Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE 2020), Aug 16-19, 2020

5. Yamini Sharma, Hyunjun Jung, Lei Zuo ,“Extracting Maximum Power in the Presence of Internal

Inductance in the Electromagnetic Energy Harvesting”, ASME International Design Engineering

Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE

2020), Aug 16-19, 2020


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6. Qiuchi Xiong, Bonan Qin, Xiaofan Li, Lei Zuo, A Rule Based Damping Control of MMR-based

Energy Harvesting Vehicle Suspension, 2020 American Control Conference, July 2020

7. Yifan Luo, Hongxin Sun, Xiuyong Wang, Anhua Chen, Lei Zuo, Exact H2 Optimal Solutions to a

SDOF System with Electromagnetic Tuned Inerter Damper for Vibration Control, 2020 ASME

International Symposium on Flexible Automation (ISFA), July 2020

8. Hongjip Kim, Hyunjun Jung, Lei Zuo, Circuit integration and road test on self-tuning stochastic

resonance energy harvesters for smart tires, SPIE Smart Structures and Nondestructive Evaluation

Conference, Anaheim, CA, April 27-May 1, 2020

9. Mingyi Liu, Yamini Sharma, Hyunjun Jung, Lei Zuo, Frequency-adaptive damping tuning for

vibration energy harvesting, SPIE Smart Structures and Nondestructive Evaluation Conference,

Anaheim, CA, April 27-May 1, 2020

10. M.A. Bukhari, Feng Qian, Oumar Barry, Lei Zuo, “Effect of Electromechanical Coupling on

Locally Resonant Metasturctures for Simultaneous Energy Harvesting and Vibration Attenuation”,

ASME 2020 Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, Oct 2020.

11. Jia Mi, Qiaofeng Li, Mingyi Liu, Xiaofan Li, and Lei Zuo, “Performance Evaluation of Suspended

Energy Harvesting Backpack using Half-Wave Mechanical Rectification”, ASME 2020 Dynamic

Systems and Control Conference, Oct 2020.

12. Lisheng Yang, Totmo Furukawa, Zac Doerzaph, Lei Zuo, Control system design for autonomous

vehicle emergency stop based on dynamic programming, ASME 2020 Dynamic Systems and

Control Conference, Oct 2020.

13. Yifan Luo, Hongxin Sun, Xiuyong Wang, Anhua Chen, Lei Zuo, Exact H2 Optimal Solutions to a

SDOF System with Electromagnetic Tuned Inerter Damper for Vibration Control, 2020 ASME

International Symposium on Flexible Automation (ISFA), July 2020

2019

14. Feng Qian and Lei Zuo, “Performance enhancement of a base-isolation structure using optimal

tuned inerter dampers”, SPIE Smart Structures and Nondestructive Evaluation Conference, Denver,

Co, March 3-7, 2019

15. ChieAn Chen, Xiaofan Li, Lei Zuo, Khai Ngo, “Damping Selection Strategy for Maximum Energy

on Wave Energy Power Converters”, 2019 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress And Exposition,

September 29–October 3,2019, Baltimore, MD

16. Boxi Jiang, Robert Parker, and Lei Zuo, Dynamics of a hybrid ocean wave-current energy

converter, SPIE Smart Structures and Nondestructive Evaluation Conference, Denver, Co, March

3-7, 2019

17. Yongjia Wu, Lei Zuo, Suresh Kaluvan, Haifeng Zhang, Nance Ericson, Kyle Reed, Roger Kisner.

“Self-powered Wireless Through-wall Data Communication for Nuclear Environments”, the 11th

Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control and Human-Machine Interface Technologies

(NPIC&HMIT), Feb 2019, Orlando FL.

18. ChienAn Chen, Xiaofan Li, Khai Ngo, Lei Zuo, “A non-ideal Wave-to-Wire Model and Wave

Tank Test Validation”, the 13th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference (EWTEC), Napoli,

Italy, Sept 1-6, 2019

19. Xiaofan Li, ChienAn Chen, Robert Parker, Khai Ngo, Lei Zuo, “Comparative study and test on a

two body wave energy point absorber under various constraints”, the 13th European Wave and

Tidal Energy Conference (EWTEC), Napoli, Italy, Sept 1-6, 2019

20. Xiaoqiang Xu, Yongjia Wu, Lei Zuo, Shikui Chen. Multimaterial Topology Optimization of

Thermoelectric Devices, The World Congress of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization,

2019, Beijing, China

21. Yuzhe Chen, Bonan Qin, Sijing Guo, Lei Zuo, Asymmetric Energy Harvesting and Hydraulically

interconnected suspension: Modelling and validations, ASME International Design Engineering


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Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE

2019), Aug 18-21, 2019, Anaheim, CA

22. Rui Lin, Xi Bo, Lei Zuo, Design, optimization, and lab test of an Archimedean screw based energy

harvester for petroleum extraction and water injection applications, ASME International Design

Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference

(IDETC/CIE 2019), Aug 18-21, 2019, Anaheim, CA

23. Luigi Costanzo, Massimo Vitelli, Yu Pan, and Lei Zuo Maximizing the Power Extraction from

Train Suspension Energy Harvesting System, ASME International Design Engineering Technical

Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE 2019), Aug

18-21, 2019, Anaheim, CA

24. Jianyong Zuo, J. Yu, C. Liu, Y. H. Gu, Yu Pan, Teng Lin, and Lei Zuo, Field-test of Railroad Track

Vibration Energy Harvester, ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences &

Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE 2019), Aug 18-21, 2019,

Anaheim, CA

25. Shuo Chen, Boxi Jiang, Xiaofan Li, Qiuchi Xiong, Jianuo Huang, Robert Parker, Lei Zuo, Lei Zuo,

Design and Dynamics of a Hybrid Ocean Wave and Current Energy Converter, ASME International

Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering

Conference (IDETC/CIE 2019), Aug 18-21, 2019, Anaheim, CA

26. Zehao Hou, Junyi Cao, Lei Zuo, Multi-parameter coupling effect of wearable energy harvesting

backpack from human motion, ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences &


Anaheim, CA

27. Hong-Xiang Zou, Lin-Chuan Zhao, Ke-Xiang Wei, Feng Qian, Lei Zuo, Wen-Ming Zhang, An

underwater magnetically coupled bistable vibration energy harvester using wings, ASME

International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in

Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE 2019), Aug 18-21, 2019, Anaheim, CA

28. Xiaoqiang Xu, Yongjia Wu, Lei Zuo, Shikui Chen, Topology optimization of multimaterial

thermalelectric structures, ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences &


Anaheim, CA

29. Kan Sun, Yongjia Wu, Zhiwei Wu, Huan Qi, and Lei Zuo, "Direct Energy Deposition 3D Printing

of Thermoelectric Materials: Simulation and Experiments", ASME International Design

Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference

(IDETC/CIE 2019), Aug 18-21, 2019, Anaheim, CA

30. Hongjip Kim, Oumar Barry, Lei Zuo, Self-resonant energy harvester with a passively tuned sliding

mass, ASME Dynamic System and Control Conference, Park City, UT, 2019 (Best Paper Award)

31. Feng Qian, Nicoles Abaid, Lei Zuo, Multiple-scale analysis of a novel piezoelectric energy

harvester with a tunable potential function, ASME Dynamic System and Control Conference, Park

City, UT, 2019

2018

32. *Sijing Guo, Qiuchi Xiong, Jan Mou Li, Liangyao Yu, Lei Zuo, “Truck Suspension Control for

Pavement Protection at Signalized Intersections”, 2018 American Control Conference, Milwaukee,

Wi, June 27-29, 2018


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33. Hongjip Kim, Wei Che Tai, Lei Zuo, “Self-tuning stochastic resonance energy harvesting for self-

powered smart tires”, SPIE Smart Structures and Nondestructive Evaluation Conference, Denver,

Co, March 4-8, 2018

34. Feng Qian, Shengxi Zhou, Lei Zuo, “Magnetic field enhanced piezoelectric stack energy harvesting

system for low- frequency excitations”, SPIE Smart Structures and Nondestructive Evaluation

Conference, Denver, Co, March 4-8, 2018

35. Yu Pan, Teng Lin, Cheng Liu, Jie Yu, Jianyong Zuo, Lei Zuo, “A novel ball screw based

electromagnetic track energy harvester for railway application”, SPIE Smart Structures and

Nondestructive Evaluation Conference, Denver, Co, March 4-8, 2018

36. Jia Mi, Lin Xu, Yaling Yang，Lei Zuo, “Design and Characterization of an Ocean Wave Powered

Lifejacket Using a 2DOF Floating Board”, SPIE Smart Structures and Nondestructive Evaluation

Conference, Denver, Co, March 4-8, 2018

37. Jia Mi, Lin Xu, ZiHeng Zhu, Lei Zuo, “Design, Modeling and Testing of a One-Way Energy

Harvesting Backpack", SPIE Smart Structures and Nondestructive Evaluation Conference, Denver,

Co, March 4-8, 2018,

38. *Dillon Martin, Xiaofan Li, Chien-An Chen, Xiuxing Yin, Robert Parker, Khai Ngo, Krish

Thiagarajan, Lei Zuo, “Wave Tank Testing on a Two-Body Point Absorber”, 2018 6th Annual

Marine Energy Technology Symposium, May 2018

39. *Sijing Guo, Liangyao Yu, Qiuchi Xiong, Lei Zuo, “Pavement Protection from Heavy-Duty Trucks

via Suspension and Braking Control at Signalized Intersections”, 14th International Symposium on

Advanced Vehicle Control, Beijing, China July 16-20, 2018

40. *Shifeng Yu, Shuyu Wang, Lei Zuo, MEMS based differential scanning calorimeter for

biomolecular study, ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC),

Quebec, Aug 2018

41. *Xiaofan Li and Lei Zuo, On Designing and Simulation of a Novel Mechanical Power Take-off on

a Two Body Wave Energy Point Absorber, ASME International Design Engineering Technical

Conferences (IDETC), Quebec, Aug 2018

42. *Yongjia Wu, Jackson Klein, Hanchen Zhou, Lei Zuo, Energy Harvesting for Nuclear Waste

Sensing and Monitoring, ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences

(IDETC), Quebec, Aug 2018 (Best Paper Award)

43. *Yongia Wu, Kan Sun, Lei Zuo, Modeling the selective laser melting of multi-component

thermoelectric powders, ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC),

Quebec, Aug 2018

44. *Qiuchi Xiong, Lei Zuo, Semi-active Control for Two-body Ocean Wave Energy Converter by

Using Hybrid Model Predictive Control, 2018 ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference

(DSCC), Oct 2018.

45. *Yu Pan, Lei Zuo, Performance evaluation of train suspension energy harvesting shock absorber

on railway vehicle dynamics, 2018 ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference (DSCC), Oct

2018. (Best Paper Award)

46. *Mingyi Liu, WeiChe Tai, Lei Zuo, Enhanced vibration energy-harvesting using inerter-based two-

degree-of-freedom system and mechanical motion rectifier, 2018 ASME Dynamic Systems and

Control Conference (DSCC), Oct 2018.

47. *Mingyi Liu, Wei-Che Tai, and Lei Zuo, Energy Harvesting from Ankle: Generate Electricity from

by Harvesting Negative Work, Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent

Systems (SMASIS2018), San Antonio, Texas,

48. *J Zuo, T Zhao, B Wang, J Ding, L Zuo, Analysis of Service Condition and Influence of Metro

Brake System Based on Stream Data Processing Method, 2018 Joint Rail Conference.

49. *Dillon Martin, WeiChe Tai, Lei Zuo, “Stabilized Off-Shore Floating Wind Platform Using a Dual-

Function Wave Energy Converter”, 4th Asian Wave and Tidal Energy Conference, Taipei, Sept

2018


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50. *Jia Mi, Lin Xu,Liu Beibei, Liang Sun, Lei Zuo, “Wave Surge Type of Energy Converter with

Mechanical Motion Rectifier”, 4th Asian Wave and Tidal Energy Conference, Taipei, Sept 2018

51. *Xueyu Ji, Elie AI Shami, Xu Wang, Lei Zuo, “A Parameter Study of Low Frequency Two-Body

Wave Energy Converters”, 4th Asian Wave and Tidal Energy Conference, Taipei, Sept 2018

52. *ChienAn Chen, Lei Zuo, Khai Nog, Dynamic Equivalent Circuit for Irregular-Wave- to-Wire Simulation, 4th Asian Wave and Tidal Energy Conference, Taipei, Sept 2018

2017

53. *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 Paper Award.)

54. *Shenxi Zhou and Lei Zuo, Tristable Energy Harvesters with asymmetric potential wells:

Analytical study, 2017 ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference (DSCC), Oct 2017.

55. *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.

56. *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

57. *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, 2017

58. *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

59. *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

60. *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

61. *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

62. *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

63. *Yalu Pei, Lei Zuo, "Multi-resonant Electromagnetic Shunt Dampers for Vibration Suppression",

ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC), Cleveland, Aug 2017

64. *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

65. *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

66. 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


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67. 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

68. Hongjip Kim, Wei che Tai, Lei Zuo, "Stochastic resonance energy harvesting from general rotating

shaft vibrations ", SPIE Smart Structure Conferences, Portland, OR, March 2017

69. 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

70. 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

71. “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

72. “Train-track-harvester System Modelling and In-field Testing for Railroad Energy Harvester”,

2016 ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference (DSCC), Minneapolis, MN, 2016

73. “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)

74. “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

75. “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

76. “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

77. “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

78. “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

79. “Review of mechanical system design via decentralized control techniques”, Y. Liu and L. Zuo,

International Symposium on Flexible Automation, Cleveland, Ohio, 2016

80. “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

81. “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

82. “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

83. “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


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84. “Anchorless Design of Electromagnetic Vibration Energy Harvester for Railroad”, Teng Lin,

Lirong Wang, and Lei Zuo, ASME Dynamic System and Control Conference, 2015

85. “Integrated Structure and Controller Design of Mechanical System via Decentralized Control”,

Yilun Liu and Lei Zuo, ASME Dynamic System and Control Conference, 2015

86. “Vibration Energy harvesting System with Mechanical Motion Rectifier”, Changwei Liang, You

Wu, and Lei Zuo, ASME Dynamic System and Control Conference, 2015

87. “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).

88. “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

89. “Analysis of Torsional Vibration Piezoelectric Energy Harvester”, Wanlu Zhou, Patrick Musgrave,

Lei Zuo, ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference (IDETC), 2015, Boston

90. “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

91. “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

92. “Characterization of a Microfabricated Differential Scanning Calorimeter”, S. Wang, S. Yu and Lei

Zuo, ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference (IDETC), 2015, Boston

93. “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

94. “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

95. “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

In 2014

96. “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.

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

98. *“Energy Harvesting From Building Seismic Isolation With Multimode

Resonant Shunt Circuits, Mincan Cao and Lei Zuo, ASME Dynamic System and Control Conference, Oct 2014

99. *“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.

100. *“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

101. “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


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102. “Energy Delivery from Piezoelectric Structure to Resistive Load”, W. Zhou, T. Xu, L. Zuo, the

12th Motion and Vibration Control Conference, Japan, Aug 2014

103. “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.

104. “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

105. “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

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

107. “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

108. “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

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

110. “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, 2014

111. "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

112. "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

113. “Multi-source energy harvester for wildlife tracking”, You Wu and Lei Zuo, 2014 SPIE Smart

Structures and Materials Conference, March 2014

In 2013

114. “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

115. “Ocean wave energy converters and control methodologies”, Jingjin Xie and Lei Zuo, 2013

ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference (DSCC), 2013

116. "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

117. "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)

118. "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)

119. "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


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120. “Progress on Searching Optimal Thermal Spray Parameters for Magnesium Silicide”, Gaosheng

Fu, Lei Zuo, Jon Longtin, Yikai Chen, Sanjay Sampath, Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. Vol. 1490, 2013

121. “Thermoelectrically powered sensing for small modular reactors”, C.C. Lin, et al, 2013 ASME

Heat Transfer Conference, 2013

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

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

124. "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

125. "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

126. "Review of power electronics for energy harvesting systems", SPIE Conferences on Smart

Structures and Materials. March 10-14, 2013, San Diego, CA

127. "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

128. “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.

129. “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.

130. “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).

131. “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.

132. “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.

133. “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.

134. “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

135. “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.

136. “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

137. “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


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138. “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.

139. “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

140. "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

141. “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

142. “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

143. "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

144. "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

145. “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

146. "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

147. "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

148. "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

149. “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

150. “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

151. “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

152. “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


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153. “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

154. “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

155. “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

156. “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

157. 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

158. 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

159. 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.

160. 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

161. 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

162. 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


163. 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.

164. 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.

165. Lei Zuo and Samir Nayfeh, Decentralized H2 Optimal Control with Pole Regional Constraints,

Proceedings of the 2003 American Control Conference, June 2003.

166. 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 Design

Engineering Technical Conference, 19th ASME Biennial Conference on Mechanical Vibration &

Noise, Chicago, 2003.

167. 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.


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168. 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.

169. 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


170. 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.

Patents (5 granted and 5 pending)

1. “Fiber Triboelectric Nanogenerator”, Ziang Feng, Shuo Yang, Anbo Wang, Xiaoting Jia, Lei Zuo,

U.S. Patent Application No: 62/878,450, filed July 2019

2. “Simultaneous Ocean Wave and Current Energy Harvesting using a Single Power Takeoff”, Lei

Zuo, Robert Parker, Xiaofan Li, U.S. Patent Application No.: 62/960,416; Filing Date: Jan 2020

3. “Energy Harvesting Shock Absorbers”, L. Zuo, X. Tang, and P. Zhang, U.S. patent # 8941251, filed

Feb 2011, Awarded Jan 2015.

4. “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.

5. "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

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

“Energy Harvesting Tiles Could Transform Footsteps into Power”, featured story on Science Trends

website, March 2018

“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

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

Tech News, March 2016


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“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 Panelist for Marine Energy Forum at the 2019 Global Sustainable Technology and

Innovation Conference (G-STIC 2019), Nov 20-22, 2019 in Brussel, Belgium

Invited Speaker at the ASME 2019 Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and

Intelligent Systems, “Passive adaptive energy harvesting”, Louisville, KY, Sept 9-11, 2019

Invited Speaker at the PSU Materials Day, “Center for Energy Harvesting”, College Park, PA,

Sept 30-31, 2019

Invited Keynote Speaker at Asian Wave and Tidal Energy Conference, “Mechanical Motion

Rectifier: A High Efficiency and Reliable WEC Power Takeoff”, Taipei, Taiwan, Sept 9-13, 2018

Invited Keynote Speaker, at First International Conference on Vibration and Energy Harvesting

Application, "Energy Harvesting: From Wireless Sensors and Self-Powered Control to Blue

Energy", Shenzhen, China, Nov 2-4, 2018

Invited talk at Columbia University, NYC, "Towards Blue Dream: The Design, Dynamics, and

Control of an Innovative Power Take Off for Ocean Wave Energy Harvesting", Nov 9th 2018

Invited talk, at the 25th International Conference on Chemical Thermodynamics (ICCT) and the

73rd Calorimetry Conference (CALCON), “MEMS-based differential scanning calorimetry”,

Lake Tahoe, California, 08/2018

Invited Keynote Speaker at 2018 International Conference on Automotive NVH Control

Technology, “Good Vibration: Energy Harvesting and Intelligent Vehicles”, SuZhou, China,

06/2018

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

Invited talk at SUNY Buffalo, “Energy Harvesting: From Self-Powered Sensing to Blue Energy”,

Aug 3, 2017

Distinguished Speaker Series, Automotive Safety and Efficiency State Key Lab, Tsinghua

University, “Improve vehicle dynamics and fuel efficiency via energy harvesting”, June 30, 2017

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

commercialization”, 3/2017

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

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

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)


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Invited Panelist at Hydrovision International Hydropower Conference, Minneapolis, “An

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

2016

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 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

Invited talk at Taiwan National Ocean University, “Ocean Wave Energy Harvesting” (08/12/2015)

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

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

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

Applications” (10/30/2013)

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)

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

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


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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)

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

NY (09/26/2011)

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

Teaching Award: Design and Development Award ($8,000), Nov 2018, for developing multi-

university hybrid (on-line and in-classroom) course Energy Harvesting

Fall 2019

• ME 5814 Energy Harvesting

• ME 4994 Undergraduate Research

• ME 5994 Research and Thesis

• ME 7994 Research and Dissertation

Spring 2019




Fall 2018

• ME 5814 Energy Harvesting




Spring 2018




• ME 4015 Senior Design

Fall 2017

• ME 5814 Energy Harvesting (12 students). Rate: 5.33/6.0 vs dept average 4.69/6.0

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

normal teaching load. Rate: 5.00/6.0 vs dept average 4.69/6.0

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





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Fall 2016

• ME 5814 Energy Harvesting (18 students) Rate: 4.78/6.0 vs dept average 4.76/6.0

• 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 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)




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)


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Research Advising and Mentoring (Currently advising 7 PhD and 7 MS students, 3 postdocs, and 2

visiting PhD students, 4 undergraduate researchers; Completed: 15 PhD, 47 MS (22 with thesis, 25 with

projects), 150+ undergraduates, 10 high school students, 21 visiting scholars, 12 postdocs)

• Research Associate:

Dr. Qiaofeng Li (03/2019-), Postdoc, PhD from Tsinghua University, China, 2018

Dr. Feng Qian (07/2020-), after Ph.D. from VT with Lei Zuo, 2020

Dr. Mingyi Liu (07/2020-), after Ph.D. from VT with Lei Zuo, 2020

Boxi Jiang (05/2020- ), post-MS research associate, after MS from VT

• Current PhD Students:

1. Xiaofan Li (08/2015-9/2020 expected), Ocean wave energy harvesting: Design and dynamics

(Awarded: honorable mention in Link Foundation Ocean Engineering Fellowship;

Awarded with ASME IDETC-VIB’2016 travel award)

2. Kan Sun (08/2017 - ), Additive manufacturing of thermoelectric materials and devices

3. Jia Mi (08/2018 -), Oscillating surge wave energy conversion and powering the blue economy

(Awarded with 2019 INORE North American Travel Fund to present in the symposium in

Victoria BC Canada in July 2019; Awarded with travel fund to participate in Workshop for

University-Industry Research Collaboration Around Marine Renewables in Sept 2019;

Awarded with 2020 DOE Wave to Water Prize and 2020 Marine Energy Collegiate

Competition)

4. Lisheng Yang (08/2018 -), Marine energy control

5. Xian Wu (08/2020 -), Wave-powered seawater desalination

6. Fukang Li (08/2020 -), Additive manufacturing of functional materials using SLM/SLS

7. Alex Greidinger (08/2020 -), deferred to Spring 2021

• Current Master Students

1. Yuzhe Chen (01/2018 – 09/2020): Regenerative vehicle suspensions

2. Shuo Chen (08/2018 -): Hybrid Marine and hydrokinetic (MHK) energy conversion

3. Weihan Lin (08/2019-): Machine learning for marine and hydrokinetic energy converter

4. Joseph Capper (08/2019): Energy and water nexus: Ocean energy and seawater desalination

5. Jianuo Huang: Ocean wave energy using active motion rectifier

6. Erin Jones (08/2019 UGG):

7. Fujun Ruan (08/2020 UGG): Wave energy converter for marine aquaculture

8. Duncan Lambert (08/2020 UGG): Marine and solar energy powered desalination

9. Mrunal Bhalerao (08/2020 -) deferred to Fall 2021 due to COVID-19

• Current Undergraduate Students

o Akshay Shetty: Control of wave energy converter

o Qiyin Pan: Electromagnetic energy harvesting vehicle suspension

o Zhaoheng Chen: Electro-hydraulic interconnected vehicle suspension o Zhiheng Luo (ECE): Ocean wave powered underwater charging

o Yixiang Zhu: Ocean energy harvesting

o Will Wang:

• Visiting Students at Virginia Tech(2)

o Bonan Qin (visiting PhD student from Beijing Institute of Technology, 2018-2020)

o Yifan Luo (visiting PhD student from Hunan Univ of Sci and Tech, 2018-2020)


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Graduated PhD/MS Students (15 PhD thesis, 47 MS: 22 with theses & 25 with projects)

With PhD Thesis Completed (15 PhD):

1. Chien-An Chen (08/2014 – 05/2020), Model, Design, and Control for Power Conversion

in Wave Energy Converter System (co-advised with Dr. Khai Ngo since 2015)

2. Mingyi Liu (08/2016-05/2020 expected), Energy Harvesting from the Human Body for

Wearable and Mobile Devices

(Awarded with ASME IDETC-VIB’2017 travel award)

3. Feng Qian (08/2016-05/2020 expected), Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting from Human

Walking and Bio-inspired Bi-stable Motion

(Awarded with ASME IDETC-VIB’2019 travel award)

4. Hongjip Kim (10/2015-–12/2019), Enhanced Energy Harvesting for Rotating Systems using

Stochastic Resonance

(Awarded with ASME DSCC’2019 Best Paper Award on Vibration)

5. Yu Pan (08/2015 – 12/2019), Design, Modeling and Testing of Electromagnetic Energy

Harvesting Systems for Railway Track and Car Applications (co-advisor Dr. Mehdi Ahmedian

since fall 2018)

(Awarded with ASME DSCC’2018 Best Paper Award on Vibration Applications)

6. Yongjia Wu (08/2015 – 5/2019), Thermoelectronic energy harvesting for sensor powering

(Awarded with ASME CIE’18 Best Paper Award on Advanced Modelling and Simulation)

(Awarded: Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad, China Ministry of Education 2019)

Subsequently received an offer of Full Professor at Wuhan University of Technology.

7. Shifeng Yu (08/2013 – 1/2019), High throughput miniaturized calorimeter

Currently postdoc at Columbia University

8. Teng Lin (10/2013 – 08/2018), PhD thesis: “Railroad Energy Harvesting System Design,

Modeling and Testing for Trackside Electric Infrastructures”

(Awarded: 2015 R&D100 Award Finalist; Best Student Paper in ASME MESA’2013; Best

Application of Energy Harvesting, by the Energy Harvesting & Storage USA 2012)

Currently Engineer/Maintenance Manager at Allegiant Health

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

Calorimeter for Protein Stability Characterization”.

Currently Assistant Professor at Northeastern University, China

10. Changwei Liang (08/2012-1/2017), PhD thesis: “On the Dynamics and Design of a Wave

Energy Converter with Mechanical Motion Rectifier”

(Awarded: 2015 R&D100 Award, 2014 EPA P3 Award; Best Technology Development of

Large-Scale Energy Harvesting, by Energy Harvesting & Storage USA 2014)

11. 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”

(Awarded: ASME DSCC 2017 Best Paper Award on Vibration)

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

Suspension Systems”

(Awarded: ASME IDETC-MESA 2013 Best Student Paper)

13. Gaosheng Fu (09/2010 – 3/2015), PhD thesis: “Integrated Design and Manufacturing of

Thermoelectric Generator for Energy Harvesting”

14. Wanlu Zhou (06/2010 – 03/2015), PhD thesis: “Multifunctional Smart Structures for

Energy Harvesting, Structure Health Monitoring and Vibration”

(Awarded: Best Poster Award, Dept annual student research poster symposium 2013)

15. Xiudong Tang (09/2008 – 02/2013), PhD thesis: “Simultaneous Energy Harvesting and

Vibration Control of Tall Buildings using Electricity-Generating Tuned Mass Dampers"

(Awarded: 2011 R&D 100 Award by R&D Magazine; Best Technology Development of


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Energy Harvesting, by Energy Harvesting & Storage USA 2010; Travel Award to attend

American Control Conference 2010)

With MS Thesis Completed (22 MS):

1. Qiuchi Xiong (08/2017-03/2020), Control of wave energy harvesting

2. Boxi Jiang (08/2017-12/2019), Performance Analysis and Tank Test Validation of a Hybrid

Wave-Current Energy Converter (co-advised with Robert Parker since 08/2017)

3. Lin Rui (08/2017 -11/2019): Energy harvesting and acoustic communication for oil

downhole applications

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

(Dillon was employed as a MS Research Associate in my lab till 06/18)

5. Jackson Klein (08/2015-05/2017), Energy Harvesting Opportunities Throughout the Nuclear

Power Cycle for Self-Powered Wireless Sensor Nodes

(Awarded: DOE NEUP Research Fellowship $50,000)

6. Yue Yuan (10/2014-02/2017), Backpack energy harvesting with human walking model

7. Yalu Pei (01/2015-12/2016), Multi-resonant electromagnetic shunt in base isolation for

vibration damping and energy harvesting

(Awarded: ASME DSCC 2017 Best Paper Award on Vibration)

8. Shaoxu Xing, (08/2013 – 09/2016), Design of power converter and wireless data transmission

for TEG energy harvesting (MS in ME and ECE)

9. Prakhar Todaria (08/2013 – 03/2016), MS thesis: energy harvesting Speed bump

10. Jie Chen (08/2013 -12/2015 ), MS thesis: Thermoelectric energy harvesting for nuclear

sensing

11. You Wu (09/2012 – 05/2015), MS thesis: Energy harvesting for wildlife tracking

12. Shuyu Wang (08/2013-04/2016), MS thesis: Differential Scanning Calorimeter for

Biomolecular Interaction Application

13. Shubin Chen (10/2013-12/2014), MS thesis: Design and optimization of piezoelectric energy

harvesting with force magnification

(Awared: URECA Research Fellowship)

14. Junxiao Ai (08/2012-07/2014), MS thesis: Design and Test of An Ocean Wave Energy

Harvesting System

(Awarded: 2014 EPA P3 Award, 2014; Best Technology Development of Large-Scale

Energy Harvesting, by Energy Harvesting & Storage USA 2014)

15. Jinwoo Park (08/2012 – 09/2014), MS thesis: Design of on on-road energy harvesting

16. Chongxiao Zhang (12/2012 – 01/2014), MS thesis: “Integration of Regenerative Shock

Absorber into Vehicle Electric System”

17. Jianchen Yin (09/2012- 2/2014), MS thesis: Fabrication and Characterization of Power

Compensated Differential Scanning Nanocalorimeter

18. Chao Nie (07/2012-08/2013), MS thesis: Characterization of Magnesium Silicide processed

with Thermal Spray For Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting (07/10/2013)

19. John Wang (08/2011-08/2013), MS thesis: “Mechanical Motion Rectifier Based Energy

Harvester for Railroad Track Applications”

(Awarded: Best Student Paper in ASME MESA’2013; Best Application of Energy

Harvesting by Energy Harvesting & Storage USA 2012)

20. Zhongjie Li (08/2010-07/2012): MS thesis: “Energy Harvesting Shock Absorbers”

(Awarded: 2014 ASME Best Paper Award in Structures and Structural Dynamics)

21. Gopinath Reddy Penamalli (09/2009 -- 08/2011): MS thesis, “Railway Structural Health

Monitoring and Energy Harvesting”

(Awarded: Best Poster Award, Dept annual student research poster symposium 2011)


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22. Pei Sheng Zhang (10/2008 – 12/2010): MS thesis, “Design of Electromagnetic Shock

Absorbers for Energy Harvesting from Vehicle Suspensions”

MS with Project Option (25 MS with project option):

1. Yamini Sharma (01/2019-, ECE): Energy harvesting electronics

2. Abhishek Pandey (08/2013 – 12/2014): Energy harvesting speed bump

3. Vishwatej Mane (08/2013 -06/2014 ): oil drilling sensing and energy harvesting

4. You Wu (09/2012 – 06/2014 ), Piezoelectric energy harvesting for wildlife tracking

5. Zhichao Xu (09/2012- 02/2014), Hydroelectric energy-harvesting shock absorber

6. Hongbo Yu (08/2012-01/2014), Topic: Railway track energy harvester

7. Ke Yu (09/2011-08/2013), Hydroelectric energy harvester

8. Harrison Greene (09/2012-06/2013), Vibration energy harvester design

9. Changming Zou (08/2012-08/2013), Topic: On-road energy harvesting

10. Bikash Sukla (08/2012 -), Topic: Suspension energy harvester design

11. Yusong Di (09/2011-08/2013), Power electronics for energy harvesting

12. Qiang Liu (09/2012 -05/2013 ), Ocean wave energy

13. Fei Lu (09/2012 – 05/2013), Marine hydrodynamics

14. Teng Lin (09/2010-05/2012), MS project: Energy harvesting from railway track vibration

15. Wen Cui (01/2012-12/2012), MS project: Electromagnetic tuned mass damper with

resonant shunt

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

harvester

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

converter

18. Bo Zhang (01/2011 - 06/2012), MS project: Characterization of thermoelectric materials

19. Xiaoming Chen (01/2009-12/10 transferred), MEMS-based nanocalorimeter

(Awarded: NSF Fellowship to attend NEMB2010)

20. Zac Brindak (1/2010-08/2011), MS project: Energy-harvesting shock absorber design

(Awarded: First Place Award in the Northeast Regional Sigma Xi Student Research

Symposium 2011)

21. Ni Tao (09/2009 – 06/2011), MS project: Wind and tall building interaction

22. Dimauro Edwards (1/2010-5/2010), MS project: Small hydropower development

23. Rong Feng Yu (10/2008-05/2010), MS project: Ultra-sensitive thermo sensors

24. Eddie Zheng (06/2009-12/2009), MS project: On-road energy harvester design

25. Sharanya Divakaruni (01/2010-05/2010), MS project: Building energy monitoring

Former Post-doc Fellows (12):

Dr. HyunJun Jung (02/2019-12/2019), currently in PNNL

Dr. Deepam Maurya (09/2018-01/2019), currently in industry

Dr. Wei-Che Tai (08/2016 – 08/2018 ), currently Assistant Professor in Michigan State U

Dr. Shengxi Zhou (02/2017-10/2017), directly hired as a full professor in Northwestern

Polytechnic U in China

Dr. Blake Boren (02/2018 – 05/2018),

Dr. Xiuxing Yin (08/2016 – 09/2017), currently postdoc fellow in University of Warwick, 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), Assistant Professor in Wuhan University of Technology

Dr. Xiaoya Shi (03/2011 – 01/2012, SUB-BNL Seed), currently in industry

Dr. Kentaro Shinoda (01/2011-03/2011, NSF-DOE), co-advisor with Prof Sanjay Sampath


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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

• Former Undergraduates (~150 undergraduates: 60+ 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 VT (70+: averagely I mentored 5-10 undergraduates each semester)

Nob Congpuong, undergraduate research 05/2019-08.2020

Erin Jones, Sixian Jia, Yiming Tan, Jianuo Huang, Liuni Chen (2018 Fall, undergraduate research)

Wendy Sparrer, Samuel Marthinuss, Elias Bearinger, Shuo Chen, Kavi Muraleetharan (2017-2018

Senior Design: power takeoff for ocean wave energy harvesting)

(W. Sparrer subsequently received Powell Fellowship)

Wendy Sparrer, Kavi Muraleetharan, Elias Bearinger, Josh Ding (2018 paid summer interns)

Jason Parker, Zhengliang Zhong, Hanchen Zhou (2017-2018 undergraduate research)

(H Zhou and J Parker co-authored several journal papers)

Matt Nabers, Sehyung Nam, Rui Lin, Katie Thich, Yilun Yu, Abdulazeez Albanyan, Alexander

Hunt (2016-2017 Senior Design: Energy harvesting paver) (R. Lin co-authored a journal paper)

Duncan Sims, Rachael Chase, Rachael Duke (Fall 2016: undergraduate research)

Rachael Chase, Rachael Duke, David Kennedy, Jason Parker (NSF REUs, Summer 2016)

Adam Wise, Hanchen Zhou, David Kennedy, Jason Parker (Spring 2016, undergraduate research)

(A. Wise subsequently received Fulbright Scholarship)

Rosaline Lee, Evan House, Jedhathai Boontanom, Carl Matthew Capindo, Coby Mizrahi, Gabriel

Palencia, Luis Fernandez (2015-2016 Senior Design: Ocean Wave Energy Harvesting)

(Boontanom co-authored a conference paper)

Tim Cerilli, Paul Rhodes, Josh Mosiniak, Yang Song, Douglas Hearney, William Emeny (2015-

2016 Senior Design: Energy Harvesting from Suspension)

Timothy Wersinger (acoustic metamaterials, 2015-2016),

Carl Matthew Capindo (NSF REU), Jason Parker, Timothy Wersinger, Tim Cerilli – Summer 2015

(J Parker co-authored a journal paper)

Joseph Blochberger, Anthony Rowen, Yuhao Zhou, Jack Jordan (Spring 2015: vehicle energy

harvesting)

Carl Matthew Capindo, Erik Wiker, Eddie Krutyanskiy (Spring 2015 undergraduate research: ocean

wave energy harvesting)

Lewis Bennett, Dan Mangels, James Naleway, Robert Mellone (Spring 2015: backpack energy

harvesting)

Jedhathai Boontanom, Rosaline Lee, Hussain Alshawaf (EPA P3 student design, Spring 15)

Former Undergraduates at Stony Brook (63 undergraduates):

Brian Scully and Jurgen Shestani (senior design, 09/2008-05/2009),

(Awarded Sigma Xi Award for Excellence in Research; First Place in the URECA Undergraduate

Research Competition)

RongFeng Yu, 2009 (Undergraduate Reorganization Award)

Weimin Chen, Jian Zhu, Ethan Li (senior design, 09/2009-05/2010), Senior Design Award,

Zac Brindak, Hani Murarez, Chris Seano (senior design, 9/2009-05/2010),

Brian Bates, Dimauro Edwards, Edwin Gonzalez, (senior design, 9/2009-05/2010), Newsday

highlight, Engineering Research Award

Lin Teng, Ka Wing Ng, and Yinyin Cui (senior design, 09/2010 – 5/2011),

(Awarded: Undergraduate Reorganization Award to Ling Teng, 2011; Engineering Research

Award to John Wang and Teng Lin, 2011)

Joseph Maldonado, John Wang, Yves Paul Theusme (senior design, 09/2010- 5/2011), Senior

Design Award,


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XiaoHui Lei, RuiHe Zheng, Jorge Lam Ki (senior design, 09/2010 – 5/2011) Senior Design Award,

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)

Risa Cheung, summer 2013 (URECA Fellowship)

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)

Former undergraduates and graduates from other university

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

Liang Shang (summer 2015), undergraduate researcher from Tsinghua University

Wen-Wei Yen (Spring 2016), PhD student from National Chiao Tung University

Ming-Hung Yu (Summer and Fall 2016), PhD student from National Chiao Tung University

Jim Houng (Summer 2016) MS student from National Chung Hsing University

Joshua Ding (summer 2017), undergraduate research from Iowa State University

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

Mohammad Naqvi (summer 2009, admitted by University of Buffalo)

Kristine Chen (summer 2010, admitted by MIT & Stanford)

Susan Wu (summer 2010, admitted by MIT & Stanford U)

Wesley Cox (summer 2011, 2012, 2013, admitted by MIT)

Ryo Kono (summer 2012, admitted by Columbia University)

Kaestin Hsiao (summer 2013, admitted by University of Washington, Seattle)

Alan Wu (Summer 2014, admitted by MIT)

Yianshen (George Hu) (Summer 2014, admitted by Harvard)

Joshua Ding (summer 2015, admitted by Iowa State University)

Ishan Gurunani (summer 2017, admitted by U C Berkeley)

Grace Xu and Lisa Zhang (summer 2018)

• 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: 9 PhD and 8 MS students

o Ming Lu (ECE PhD student, advisor Khai Ngo), completed 2017

Thesis: Synergetic Attenuation of Stray Magnetic Field in Inductive Power Transfer

o Xiang Dai (ME PhD student, advisor Robert Parker), completed 2017


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Thesis: Nonlinear Dynamics and Vibration of Gear and Bearing Systems using A Finite

Element/Contact Mechanics Model and A Hybrid Analytical-Computational Model

o Yincan Mao (ECE PhD student, advisor Khai Ngo). Completed 2018

Thesis: Passive Balancing of Switching Transients between Paralleled SiC MOSFETs

o Ricardo Francisco Cruz Folgar, (PhD student, advisor Shashank Priya), completed 2019

Thesis: Energy Harvesting from Human Body, Motion and Surroundings

o Imran Rahman (ECE PhD student, advisor Saifur Rahman)

o Bing Dong (PhD student, advisor Robert Parker)

o Chenxin Wang (PhD student, advisor Robert Parker)

o Jaya Kartheek Devineni (ECE PhD student, advisor Harpreet Dhillon)

o Zakia Ahmed (PhD student, advisor Craig Woolsey)

o Adam Norman (MS student, advisor Danesh Tafti), completed 2016

Thesis: A fundamental study of Advance Ratio, Solidity, Turbine Radius, and Blade Profile on

the Performance Characteristics of Vertical Axis Turbines

o Chiang-Kai Chu (MS student, advisor Steve Southward), completed 2017

Thesis: Energy redistribution with controllable binary state latch element

o Yuhao Zhou (ME student, advisor Rob Parker), completed 2017

o Peter Racioppo (MS student, advisor Pinhas Ben-Tzvi), completed 2018

Thesis: Design and Control of a Modular, Cable-Driven Snake Robot

o Daniel Cooke (MS student, advisor Zhiting Tian), completed 2018

Thesis: Design and Optimization of a Self-powered Thermoelectric Car Seat Cooler

o Li Tan (MS student, advisor Rob Parker), completed 2018

Thesis: A computational model to analyze mechanics of timing belt systems by iterative method

o Dong Wang (MS student, advisor Yaling Yang), completed 2019

Thesis: Image-based Vehicle Localization

o Xihui WU (MS student, advisor Azim Eskandarian), competed 2020

International (external committee for defense or dissertation examiner)

o Zhengbao Yang (PhD student, University of Toronto) external committee member, 2016

o Ran Zhang (PhD student, RMIT University, Australia), external committee member, 2019

o Yjun Xu (PhD student, IIT Politecnico di Torino, Italy) external committee member, 2018

o Chandan Kumar (PhD student, Indian Institute of Technology) dissertation examiner, 2019

o David Pritchard (PhD student, Exeter University, UK) dissertation examiner, 2020

Professional, Administrative, and Academic Services

Leadership Training

Certificate of Leadership Academy 2018-2019 (08/2018-03/2019, received leadership training

organized by Virginia Tech Roanoke Higher Education Center: eight full days of classes once a month

and four one-on-one professional coaching sessions.)

Administrative Service

Director (05/2018- ), Associate Director (2014-2018), NSF I/UCRC Center for Energy

Harvesting Materials and Systems (CEHMS),

- Co-founded the Phase II CEHMS Center by writing the IUCRC proposal to NSF

- Coordinating CEHMS site at Columbia University NY and supporting to establish other sites

- Recruiting and retaining industry members for the Center (currently 12 industry members and

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- Organizing semi-annual meetings of the Center with participation of over 10 core faculty

members, all CEHMS industry members and students; selecting projects funded by the Center.

Academic Service Activities

At Virginia Tech (2014-)

Department Strategic Plan Committee, 11/2015-

Mentor of three junior faculty members, 09/2017-

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

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

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



At Stony Brook University (2008-2014)

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, 2011-2014

College Admission Committee of Engineering Scholars for Medicine, 2010 –2014

Department Seminar Coordinator, 09/2009 – 01/2011

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

Department Graduate Program Committee, 09/2012 –08/2014

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

Professional Services

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 Guest Editor, Acta Mechanica Sinica (AMS), a Springer Journal, for special issue on "Vibration energy harvesting: from micro to macro scale", 2020

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/DED Technical Committee of Advanced Vehicle Technologies, 08/2011-date

Chair of Award Subcommittee (2013,2014,2015), Vice chair (2017), Chair 2018

o ASME/DSCD Technical Committee on Mechatronics, 01/2013-, Secretary (2014),

Conference chair (2015), Vice Chair (2016), Chair (2017), Award Chair (2018)

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/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


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o 2019 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and

Information in Engineering Conference (2019 ASME IDETC/CIE), as one of the two General

Chairs (with 1200 registered attendants).

o Energy Harvesting from Infrastructure and Ocean Systems (EHIOS) Conference, Hoboken,

New Jersey, Nov 4-6, Conference co-chair

o 2019 FAST-zero, 5th International Symposium on Future Active Safety Technology Toward

zero traffic accidents, Sept 9-12, 2019, as organizing committee 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

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'2018 Co-organizer of Symposiums on vehicle dynamics and control

ASME IDETC'2018 Co-organizer of Symposiums on vibration control and energy harvesting,

vehicle system design

American Control Conference 2018, Co-organizer of Invited Sessions on vibration control





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)


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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, SBIR program, panelist

National Science Foundation, IUCRC program, panelist

National Science Foundation, Advanced Manufacturing, panelist

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

National Science Foundation, Dynamic Systems program, panelist

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

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

Department of Energy, Nuclear Engineering program, 2018

Pakistan – U.S. S&T Cooperation Program

Canada Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), 2011- 2017

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 40 academic journals in the areas energy, control, dynamics,

vibration, mechatronics, mechanical design, vehicles,

Conference Paper reviewer for over 30 technical conferences, including


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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

Advisor for Company or Organizations

R&D Advisor for Uncharted Power company, NY, 2016-date

NJ Tech Council's Ocean Technology & Sustainability Steering Committee, 2019-

director, nsf i/ucrc center for energy harvesting materials...

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