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Blake Boren works within NREL's water power program as a technology innovation, modeling, and assessment engineer. Boren's research centers on developing methods and concepts to convert ocean energy into more usable forms such as electricity and desalinated water. Spanning nearly a decade, Boren's experience in marine renewable energy originates from time spent in industry and academia. Prior to NREL, Boren served as a modeling and controls engineer for a startup company helping to lead the development of numerical modeling tools for ocean wave energy converters. Additionally, Boren held a postdoctoral research position at Virginia Tech conducting high-fidelity fluid-structure interaction analysis for complex and atypical types of ocean energy converters.
Distributed embedded energy converter technologies
Technology innovations, including exploiting basic principles to explicitly innovate towards paradigm shifts
Robotics for marine renewable energy, including dynamics, controls, embedded systems, machine learning
Empirical research, including prototyping, instrumentation, and data acquisition
Postdoctorial Researcher, Virginia Tech (2018)
Modeling and Controls Engineer, Waterpower Technologies (2015–2017)
PhD, Robotics, Oregon State University
Master, Oregon State University
Bachelor, Oregon State University
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
Research output: NREL › Poster
Research output: NREL › Technical Report