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Dr. Sathish Sankaran has over 20 years of diversified industry experience in technology development, consulting, project execution and management working on several international, deepwater, and US onshore projects. His areas of specialization include digital oilfield technologies, reservoir management, field development optimization, uncertainty analysis, production operations, and advanced process automation. At Xecta Digital Labs, he leads an engineering team in the development of digital solutions for energy industry by fusing physics and data analytics methods for applications in reservoir, production, facilities, and downstream processes. Sathish is a member of Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) and served in several roles including advisory positions, chairperson and committee member in industry initiatives, and authored industry reports on applications of data analytics in reservoir engineering. He has a B.Eng. (Honors) degree in Chemical Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS โ Pilani, India), M.S degree in Chemical Engineering from University of Cincinnati and Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering from University of Houston.