Nathan Tom
Engineering Manager at Ocergy
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNathan Tom is an engineering manager and ocean energy researcher with a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley and eight years of focused experience advancing wave and marine renewable technologies. He led R&D programs at NREL—bridging hydrodynamics, structural design, and control—to prove economically viable wave energy concepts and to reduce loads while smoothing power delivery. A key contributor to the widely used open-source WEC-Sim simulator, Nathan has implemented physics improvements and standards-aligned spectra, and serves as a U.S. SME to the IEC TC114 MT62600-100 technical committee. Now at Ocergy, he’s applying his expertise to hydrodynamic design and energy-harvesting strategies for persistent environmental buoys. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic innovation: he pairs deep academic rigor with hands-on code and prototype development to move concepts toward field-ready systems.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Ocean Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Ocean Engineering at University of California, Berkeley
English
Github Skills (3)
matlab10
hydrodynamics9
simulink8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
WEC-Sim/WEC-Sim
Nov 2017 - Aug 2022
Wave Energy Converter Simulator (WEC-Sim), an open-source code for simulating wave energy converters.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:89 reviews, 80 commits, 42 PRs in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Nathan primarily focused on modifying the `waveClass.m` file, which is part of the Wave Energy Converter Simulator (WEC-Sim) project. Their contributions included enhancements to the wave elevation calculations for regular and irregular waves, including the addition of wave gauges, and the implementation of wave power calculation. The modifications also include adjustments to the PM and JS spectra to align with the IEC TS 62600-2 ED2 standard.
convertersmatlabsnl-applicationswave-energymarine-renewable-energy
nathanmtom/WEC-Sim
Oct 2020 - Jan 2021
Wave Energy Converter Simulator (WEC-Sim), an open-source code for simulating wave energy converters.
Contributions:6 PRs, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
converterwave-energysimsimulationwec-sim
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