Meet Our Team
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Faculty and Staff
Professor, Principal Investigator
Lei Zuo
Herbert C. Sadler Collegiate Professor of Engineering
ASME Fellow
Postdoc
Postdoctoral Fellow (09/2022 - date)
M. Javad Javaherian
Great Lakes wind-ice modelling
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Ph.D., Aerospace and Ocean Engineering, Virginia Tech, 2022
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Postdoctoral Fellow (03/2023 - date)
Gagan Kumar Goyal
Additive manufacturing of functional materials
Ph.D., Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science, Indian Institute of Technology, 2021​
Postdoctoral Fellow (07/2024 - date)
Binh Truong
Energy harvesting
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah, 2020
Postdoctoral Fellow (08/2024 - date)
Saeid Bayat
Control co-design
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Ph.D., Industrial & Enterprise Systems Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2024
PhD Students
Graduate Student Research Assistant (08/2018 - date)
Lisheng Yang
WEC control co-design
MS, Civil Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2016
Graduate Student Research Assistant (12/2020 - date)
Xian Wu
Food-energy-water nexus
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MS, University of California San Diego, Applied Ocean Science, 2019​​
Graduate Student Research Assistant (08/2021 - date)
Vishnu Vijayasankar
Marine energy + community
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MS, Ocean Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, 2019
Graduate Student Research Assistant (08/2022 - date)
Weihan Lin
Hybrid wave and current converter
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MS, Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech, 2022
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Graduate Student Research Assistant (08/2023 - date)
Wei Ying Wong
Subsea cable and mooring dynamics
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MS, Civil Engineering, National Chung Hsing University, 2017
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Graduate Student Research Assistant (08/2023 - date)
Ta Chih Hung
Hybrid wind and wave energy
MS, Civil Engineering, National Chung Hsing University, 2017
Graduate Student Research Assistant (01/2024 - date)
Jianuo Huang
Marine energy for aquaculture
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MS, Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech, 2023​
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Graduate Student Research Assistant (08/2021 - date)
Haozheng Wang
Magnetic and thermoelectric mateirals 3D printing
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MS, Materials Science and Engineering, Virginia Tech
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Graduate Student Research Assistant (08/2024 - date)
Xiangyu Lu
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BS, Mechanics & Aerospace Engineering, Tsinghua University, 2024
MS Thesis Students
Master's Student (08/2024 - date)
Yuehan Wang
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Undergraduate Seniors
Bachelor's Student (06/2024 - date)
Megan Pribak
BS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, 2021 - 2025
Bachelor's Student (06/2024 - date)
Ignacio Perez-Garcia
BS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan,
2022 - 2026
Undergradautes
Bachelor's Student (06/2024 - date)
Logan Kohley
BS, University of Michigan, 2022 - 2026
Bachelor's Student (06/2024 - date)
Gabriel Giddings
BS, University of Michigan, 2022 - 2026
Bachelor's Student (06/2024 - date)
Stacey Jiang
BS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, 2023 - 2027
Bachelor's Student (06/2024 - date)
Harrison Otton
BS, Industrial Engineering, University of Michigan, 2023 - 2027
Alumni
Assistant Professor, University of Hong Kong (01/2025 - date)
Xiaofan Li
Assistant Research Scientist, Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, University of Michigan, 06/2023 - 01/2025
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech, 2020
Assistant Professor, Stevens Institute of Technology (08/2024 - date)
Jia Mi
​Postdoctoral Fellow , Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, University of Michigan, 08/2018 - 08/2024
Ph.D., Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, University of Michigan, 2024