Wei Shi is a professor of Deepwater Engineering Research Centre at Dalian University of Technology (DUT). He received his PhD from POSTECH in Korea and worked as an assistant professor at Konkuk University. He also has a postdoc from NTNU in Norway. His research interests include numerical modeling of offshore renewable energy systems, wind turbine drivetrain dynamics, and ice–structure interaction for offshore wind turbines. He has good experience in dynamic analysis of mechanical systems. His main research interests include the dynamics of offshore wind turbines under complex metocean conditions. He is the PI of many projects, including NSFC, Key projects from MOST, and other national and provincial projects. He published more than 100 SCI-index papers, 70 of which as either the first author or corresponding author. He has 46 Chinese patents and 8 US patents. He has also received several first-prize and second prizes from numerous different academic societies.