Lei Zuo is a professor of both mechanical engineering and electrical engineering at Virginia Tech, the director of the National Science Foundation Industry and University Collaborative Research Center (NSF-IUCRC) for Energy Harvesting Materials and Systems. He is a renowned scholar in the fields of energy harvesting, marine energy, vibration control, mechatronics, advanced manufacturing, and thermoelectrics. Prof. Zuo has published more than 270 papers and has advised 12 PhD and 21 MS students to completion and over 10 postdocs. He is a Fellow of ASME and the Technical / Associate Editor of three academic journals of ASME and IEEE. Lei Zuo completed his Ph.D. from MIT and B.S. from Tsinghua University. He is the recipient of the 2017 ASME Leonardo Da Vinci Award, 2014 SAE Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award, 2015 and 2011 R&D 100 Awards