Kelley Ruehl
PHD Candidate
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKelley Ruehl is a marine renewable energy researcher and Principal Member of Technical Staff with over a decade at Sandia National Laboratories, now pursuing a PhD on fatigue wave loads for offshore wind at NTNU. She leads development of the R&D 100-winning WEC-Sim open-source wave energy simulator and founded PRIMRE, an open data portal for marine energy, blending hands-on experimental testing, numerical modeling, and software engineering. Kelley has overseen scale model design and testing (including DOE Wave Energy Prize support) and contributes to standards and defense programs, making her a bridge between academic research, industry deployment, and open-source ecosystems. Based in Albuquerque, she pairs mechanical and ocean engineering training with a track record of making complex simulation tools accessible and reproducible for technology developers.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Mechanical Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Mechanical Engineering at Oregon State UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mechanical Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Github Skills (58)
design-tool10
simulation10
prediction-model10
euler10
visualization10
simulator10
converter10
simulink10
wave10
energy10
water10
matlab10
marine10
snl-applications10
realms10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
MRE-Code-Hub/Marine_Energy_Software_KH
Nov 2023 - Mar 2025
Marine Energy Software Knowledge Hub - database content
Contributions:1 review, 12 PRs, 26 pushes in 1 year 3 months
cmichelenstrofer/WEC-Sim
May 2015 - Oct 2020
Wave Energy Converter Simulator (WEC-Sim), an open-source code for simulating wave energy converters.
Contributions:175 commits, 1 push in 5 years 5 months
converterwave-energysimsimulationwec-sim
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