Affiliation: Dalian University of Technology
University / Institution: Dalian University of Technology
Department: Deepwater Engineering Research Centre
Designation: Professor
Email: weishi@dlut.edu.cn
Country: China
Wei Shi is a professor of Deepwater Engineering Research Centre at Dalian University of Technology (DUT). He received PhD from POSTECH in Korea and worked as an assistant professor at Konkuk University and a postdoc at NTNU in Norway. His research interests include numerical modeling of offshore renewable energy systems, wind turbine drivetrain dynamics, and ice-structure interaction for offshore wind turbines. Meanwhile, he has good experience in dynamic analysis of mechanical systems.
His main research interests include the dynamics of offshore wind turbines under complex metocean conditions. He is the PI of many projects including NSFC, Key projects from MOST, and other national and provincial projects. He published more than 70 SCI-index papers among of them 50 are first-author or corresponding authors. He has 28 Chinese patents and 8 US patents. Meanwhile, he got several first-prize and second prizes from several different academic societies.