Dhahran, Eastern, Saudi Arabia
For more than 15 years I have been making Digital/Smart Fields a reality. My experience in digitalization combines solid academic principles and industrial realization. A double background in Mathematics and Engineering allows me to consistently blend sound analysis and rapid action; ultrafast prototyping and having things done while I restlessly strive for optimality. I have been fundamental in the winning, design and spearheading to successful delivery of many strategic, multimillion industrial projects, all of them with Global 500 companies. These projects materialize digitalization, Artificial Intelligence and optimal, robust decision-making in IR4.0 environments. My roles have included technical lead of multidisciplinary teams, located in up to three continents, conceptualization, design and execution of large projects, interaction with wide spectrum of organizational functions, from technical and research to executive, liaison with preeminent collaborators from University and Industry, participation in technical committees of prestigious research-based innovation centers, generation of intellectual property and scientific output at first-rate refereed journals and conferences through presentation, review and publication. During my career I have advised, mentored and coached numerous researchers and MSc/PhD students, most of them now at major firms in energy and technology. After being exposed to all sort of mathematical, abstract concepts, I really believe everything, no matter how complex it is, can be explained and transmitted effectively and, especially, with very limited, if any, use of jargon. I have over 20 patents in, among others, the U.S, European, Russian and International offices, 20 peer-reviewed journal publications, 5 book chapters and 40 conference papers in topics such as optimization, decision-making, Artificial Intelligence, machine learning and use of these technologies in the Digital Oil Field. I am a global authority in application of optimization in upstream and have been organizer, invited speaker and panelist in multiple venues on areas of my expertise. I do not content with my track record and proven performance. I daily switch into learning mode to always improve my practices and be aware of emerging trends and cautiously study momentary hypes. I am always eager to leave my comfort zone and do more, and still truly value when in many of these enriching experiences, after having visited just about one hundred different countries, I get to know new people and cultures.
Research consulting in Energy. Solutions through Mathematics: Energy + Maths. • Methodology and software for optimization and reconciliation of long-term and short-term decisions in Digital Oil Fields. • Reduced at least around 50% computational cost with respect to state of the art for client's oil field. Keywords: Digital Oil Fields, production optimization, field development, decision-making under uncertainty, artificial lift
Lead research in large projects with oil and gas companies in upstream sector. • Strategic project on one of first Cognitive-Computing and Artificial-Intelligence applications in oil and gas. • Digitalization methodology and tools for automated reservoir via waterflooding; increased net present value on model of new field 15% and reduced costs in test sector of real field by 350K barrels of water injected in 8 months. • Development of goal-oriented end-to-end conversational system. Keywords: Digital Oil Fields, Artificial Intelligence, production optimization, optimized field development, machine learning, Cognitive Computing, massive parallel/distributed computing, uncertainty quantification/propagation, value of information, Agile environments, natural language processing
Manage, coordinate and perform research activities at the Stanford's Smart Fields Consortium within the Department of Energy Resources Engineering. • Obtained at least 5–10% increase in projected net present value of oil field production through development of optimization methods for production and development of Smart/Digital Oil Fields. • Defined and led collaboration with Center for Integrated Operations in the Petroleum Industry (IO Center) and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Keywords: Smart/Digital Oil Fields, optimization, reservoir flow/seismic simulation, inverse modeling, closed-loop reservoir management, massive parallel/distributed computing, Integrated Operations
Theoretical and applied research at Computing and Control group. • Developed methods that accelerate computationally expensive optimization typically by 10 times or more with applications to design of magnetostatic devices (actuators). Keywords: optimization, finite elements, reduced-order modeling, computational electromagnetics, multilevel and multi-scale methods, magnetostatic actuator