Shawn Sheng

Dr. Shawn Sheng is a senior research engineer at National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and a key member of the drivetrain reliability (formerly gearbox reliability) research team. Currently, he leads wind turbine gearbox reliability database, condition monitoring, wind plant operations & maintenance (O&M), including offshore, and actively involved in wind energy digitalization research at NREL. He is an active advocate for conducting advanced research, bridging gaps between academia and industry, and transforming wind O&M through R&D. Shawn has a broad range of research interests: 1) sensing, 2) signal processing, 3) machine learning, and 4) hybrid data and physics domain modeling approaches. He is a member of ASME and STLE. His work has been published in various journals, conference proceedings, book chapters, and technical reports.