Lei Zuo joined the University of Michigan as an endowed professor in August 2022. He was previously the Robert E. Hord Jr. Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Tech, and the director of NSF Industry-University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC) for Energy Harvesting Materials and Systems. His research interests include marine renewable energy, energy harvesting, automotive engineering, vibration and control, mechatronics design, and advanced manufacturing. He has authored about 360 papers including 15 with the best paper awards. He has graduated 70 Ph.D. and master students and mentored 16 postdocs. Lei Zuo was the sole recipient of the 2017 ASME Leonardo da Vinci Award and the 2015 ASME Thar Energy Design Award. He also received R&D 100 Awards twice (2015 and 2011) and the 2014 SAE Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award. Lei Zuo completed his BS in Automotive Engineering (07/1997) from Tsinghua University and his Ph.D. (02/2005) in Mechanical Engineering from MIT.