Stony Brook University, also known as the State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook, is a public research university located 50 miles east of New York City on Long Island. It is considered as a "flagship" institute of the SUNY system, and has 16,000 undergraduates, 8,000 graduates, and 2,000 faculty.
Under the research support from US National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy, US Department of Transportation, New York State Energy Research and Authority, industry companies, etc, the Energy Harvesting and Mechatronics Lab at Stony Brook University primarily focuses on the large-scale energy harvesting (vibration and thermoelectricity), such as from tall building vibration, vehicle suspension, railway transportation, ocean waves, vehicle exhaust heat, nuclear reactors.