Lei Zuo, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engeering
Stony Brook University - SUNY

One post-docs, three PhD students, and more MS positions Open

Research Interests

• Energy Harvesting
• Dynamics and Vibration
• Control Systems
• Mechatronic System Design
• Smart Materials and Structures
• Biosensors and Instrumentation
• Vehicle Engineering

Teaching

• MEC 560, Advanced Control (Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011)
• MEC 402, Mechanical Vibration (Fall 2008, Fall 2009)
• MEC 316, Sensors and Instrumentation (Fall 2009, Fall 2010)
• MEC 220, Engineering Electronics and Circuits
• MEC 696, Special Problems in Mechanical Engineering (Spring 2009-)
  

Educations

Massachusets Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 08/1999 - 11/2004

• Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Feb 2005
• M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Feb 2002
• M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Feb 2002
  

Tsinghua University, Beijing, China 09/1992 - 07/1997

• B.S. with honors in Automotive Engineering, School of Mechanical Engineering

Experience

Stony Brook University - SUNY, Stony Brook, NY

• 09/2008-Present, Assistant professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Abbott Laboratories, Global Pharmaceutical R&D Division, North Chicago, IL

• 01/2008-08/2008, Associate Research Investigator, Department of Automation Engineering
• 11/2004-12/2007, Senior Research Scientist, Department of Automation Engineering

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

• 09/1999-11/2004, Research Assistant, Department Mechanical Engineering

MIT/Caltech LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Cambridge, MA

• 09/2002 - 11/2004, Research Collaborator

GE Global Research Center, Niskayuna, NY

• 06/2002-08/2002, Research Intern, Department of Mechanical Dynamics
  

Honors

• Award Winner of Best Application of Energy Harvesting, by the Energy Harvesting &
  Storage USA 2010 conference, Nov 7-8, 2012, Washington DC. ”Mechanical Motion Rectifier
  based Railroad Energy Harvester”
• R&D 100 Award by R&D Magazine, “Energy-Harvesting Shock Absorbers”, for the 100 most
  significant technology innovations of the year in the word, 07/2011
• Finalist of Semi-Plenary Presentations, ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference,
  Fort Lauderdale, FL, 10/2012
• Award Winner of Best Technology Development of Energy Harvesting, by the Energy
  Harvesting & Storage USA 2011 conference, Nov 15-16, 2011, Boston, MA (with T-B Xu)
• Keynote Speaker, E2 - Energy Harvesting Technology Workshop, Hoboken, NJ, 12/07/2010
• Award Winner of Best Technology Development of Energy Harvesting, by the Energy
• Harvesting & Storage USA 2010 conference, Nov 16-17, 2010, Cambridge, MA
• Research Highlights at MIT Technology Review, New York Times, Discovery News, PhysOrg,
  Newsday, TV 10/55, etc in 2010, 2011, and 2012
• Press Releases about Lei Zuo’s research at Stony Brook News and SUNY Research Foundation
  in 2010, 2011, and 2012.
• Paper selected into the 2010 Annual Journal Highlights of Smart Materials and Structures,
  2011
• Scientific Innovation Award by Abbott Laboratories (2 over thousand researchers), 2008
• Best Paper Presentation Award in the Session, the American Control Conference, 2003
• Hats-Off Award, General Electric Global Research Center, 2002
• Outstanding Graduate Gold Medal of Class 1997 (top 1% in the class),Tsinghua University
• Research Grant from Tsinghua-Ford Foundation (RMB¥2000, student PI), 1997
• Procter & Gamble Fellowship, 1995-1996; Dec 9th Excellent Student Fellowship, 1994-1995; Takata Fellowship, 1993-1994, Tsinghua University
• Outstanding Student Honors, Tsinghua University, 1994, 1995, 1996

212 Heavy Engineering Building
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY 11794-2300

C.V. of Prof Lei Zuo (11/2012)