Meet Our Team
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
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
Ph.D., Industrial & Enterprise Systems Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2024
Postdoctoral Fellow (08/2025 - date)
Lisheng Yang
WEC control co-design
PHD, Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, UMich, 2025
Postdoctoral Fellow (08/2025 - date)
Zirui Liu
Power Electronics
PHD, Electrical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 2025
Postdoctoral Fellow (08/2026 - date)
Zezhou Zhang
Controls
PHD, Mechanical Engineering, Rutgers University, 2026
PhD Students
Graduate Student Research Assistant (08/2022 - date)
Weihan Lin
Hybrid wave and current converter
MS, Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech, 2022
Graduate Student Research Assistant (08/2023 - date)
Wei Ying Wong
Subsea cable and mooring dynamics
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
MS, Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech, 2023
Graduate Student Research Assistant (08/2021 - date)
Haozheng Wang
Magnetic and thermoelectric mateirals 3D printing
MS, Materials Science and Engineering, Virginia Tech
, 2023
Graduate Student Research Assistant (08/2025 - date)
Mathew Ding
WEC Design and Control
BSC, Civil Engineering, UIUC
, 2022
Graduate Student Research Assistant (08/2025 - date)
Hanzhi Mou
Control co-design of wave energy converters
BSC, Marine Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 2025
Graduate Student Research Assistant (08/2026 - date)
Zhi Li
Hardware-in-the-Loop platform development and WEC control
MS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, 2026
Graduate Student Research Assistant (08/2023 - date)
Anna Ay
Dissimilar material joining and unjoining
MS, Mechanical Engineering, UMich,
2026
Undergradautes
Bachelor's Student (06/2023 - date)
Koda Mitsuhashi
BS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, 2023 - 2026
Bachelor's Student (06/2024 - date)
Stacey Jiang
BS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, 2023 - 2027
Bachelor's Student (06/2025 - date)
Jackson Phillips
BS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, 2025 - 2029
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