Ryan Geoffrey Coe

Ryan Coe received a B.S. degree in Ocean Engineering (2009) and a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering (2013), both from Virginia Tech. In 2013, he joined Sandia National Laboratories’ Water Power Technologies department. Ryan’s research focuses on wave energy converters (WECs), including optimizing WEC performance through dynamics-based design and control, extreme response modeling and survival analysis, and testing large scale WEC devices. Ryan is an associate editor for the Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering and serves as Convenor for International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) on the subject of “Design requirements for marine energy systems.”