Bo Shen
Research Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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RockstarBo Shen is a research scientist and software engineer with 11 years’ experience, currently working at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. He specializes in back-end development for energy modeling tools, contributing significant enhancements to the widely used EnergyPlus simulation engine—most notably implementing a Heat Pump Water Heater calculation module and related performance variables. His work bridges applied research and production-grade code, improving fidelity of building energy and water-use simulations for engineers and researchers. Comfortable in scientific software environments, he brings domain expertise in HVAC and thermal systems modeling alongside pragmatic coding practices that make complex physics accessible to simulation users.
11 years of coding experience
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
NREL/EnergyPlus
Dec 2014 - Jun 2021
EnergyPlus™ is a whole building energy simulation program that engineers, architects, and researchers use to model both energy consumption and water use in buildings.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:132 commits, 7 PRs, 153 pushes in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Bo's contributions focused on adding and modifying a Heat Pump Water Heater (HPWH) calculation module and associated variables within the EnergyPlus building energy simulation program. This involved implementing new code for heat pump water heater calculations, including variables related to heating capacity, COP, and pump power. The changes included the modification of existing files and the addition of new functionalities, demonstrating a focus on enhancing the simulation capabilities related to water heating systems.
renewable-energypower-systemsenergy-consumptionenergy-simulationsimulation
shenb/EnergyPlus
Jun 2020 - Jul 2020
EnergyPlus™ is a whole building energy simulation program that engineers, architects, and researchers use to model both energy consumption and water use in buildings.
Contributions:8 pushes, 3 branches in 8 days
modelicarenewable-energyenergy-consumptionenergy-simulationsimulation
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