Lei Zhou
Charles Ringrose Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering, Rm 2246
Dr. Lei Zhou is an Assistant Professor with the ME and ECE department at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and is an Associate Director of WEMPEC. Dr. Zhou received her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2019. Dr. Zhou also holds an MS (2014) in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and a BE in Control and Instrumentation Engineering from Tsinghua University. She is directing the Precision Mechatronics and Control Lab (PMCL) at UW–Madison, which is a part of WEMPEC.
Dr. Zhou’s research focuses on developing novel and high-performance electromechanical solutions through exploiting the synergy between machine design, electric machines and drives, and control engineering.
- Precision mechatronics
- Control engineering
- Electric machine design and control
- Robotic actuation
- Precision machine design