Vikram Jayaram
Dr. Vikram Jayaram is the head of data science and Advanced Analytics group at Pioneer Natural Resources, catering to the business intelligence, digital strategy, and innovation essentials of Pioneer's upstream operations. His team leads the technology research and analytics product development. Vikram’s interests and R&D efforts are in utilizing applied/derived machine learning, artificial intelligence, and optimization concepts, in drilling, completions, geosciences, ESG, and next generation reservoir monitoring systems. Building strategic business intelligence solutions pertaining to real time operations, ML driven hydrocarbon production forecasting, design of controlled experiments leading to actionable insights, are Vikram’s team prime focus avenues. He has also worked in the development of solutions utilizing IoT, HPC, and Edge Computing solutions for upstream E&P applications. Vikram has more than 15 years of varied industry academic experience including past faculty/research tenures at University of Texas (El Paso) and Oklahoma. Vikram is an Associate Editor of Interpretation, an SEG/AAPG journal, and has more than 40 international peer-reviewed publications. He also secured multi-million dollars in research funding from DoE, NSF, NASA, NIH, and corporate funding during his academic and research tenures.