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Biographies of authors

Cenk Temizel is a reservoir engineer with 15 years of international experience in the industry with expertise in reservoir
simulation, smart fields, heavy oil, optimization, unconventionals and enhanced oil recovery. He was a teaching/research
assistant at the University of Southern California and Stanford University before joining the industry. He won the 2nd place
at SPE Global R&D Competition at SPE ATCE 2014 in Amsterdam and the 2nd place in Technical Excellence Awards at
22nd World Petroleum Congress in 2017 in Istanbul. He received the Halliburton Award in Innovation in 2012. He serves as
a technical reviewer for petroleum engineering journals. His interests include reaction kinetics/dynamics of fluid flow in
porous media and enhanced oil recovery processes. He served as a session chair and member of organizing committees for
several SPE conferences. He has published around 100 publications in the area of reservoir management, production opti-
mization, enhanced oil recovery processes and smart fields along with US patents. He holds a BS degree (Honors) from
Middle East Technical University—Ankara (2003) and an MS degree (2005) from University of Southern California
(USC), Los Angeles, CA both in petroleum engineering.
Tayfun Tuna is a data scientist and software developer who holds a MS and a PhD degree in computer science from the
University of Houston. His graduate research focus was on text mining; applying machine learning techniques to lecture
videos in order to segment video content for a better learning experience. He is a cofounder of Videopoints LLC, previously
known as ICS Video Project, an interactive educational video platform which have been used more than 50K users across
multiple university campuses. While he was the chief operating officer and principal investigator, his project is rewarded by
National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research (NSF SBIR) Phase I Grant.
In his professional career, he has worked with Halliburton to develop a patented machine learning-based web-based
interface that predicts chance of getting of stuck while drilling for oil. He has two patents and 20 research paper publications
on educational technology, social networks, and oil&gas field.
Mehmet Melih Oskay earned his PhD from UT Austin, and he has been in academia and industry as advisors and
managerial positions for more than 30 years at several major operators.
He has represented operators at Joint Operations Committee and Joint Operations Tender Committees.
He has taught at University of Texas—Austin, TX; Louisiana Tech University-Ruston, Louisiana; Middle East Tech-
nical University—Ankara, Turkey; and King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
He has participated in several Organizing Committees and Session Chairmanship positions at many SPE Oil Show and
Technical Conferences.
Luigi A. Saputelli is a reservoir engineering senior advisor with over 28 years of experience. He worked in various
operators and services companies around the world. He is a founding member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers’
Real-time Optimization Technical Interest Group and the Petroleum Data-driven Analytics technical section. He is the
recipient of the 2015 SPE International Production and Operations Award.
He has published more than 90 industry papers on applied technologies related to reservoir management, real-time opti-
mization, and production operations. He holds a BSc. in electronic engineer from Universidad Simon Bolivar (1990), with a
master in petroleum engineering from Imperial College (1996), and a PhD in chemical engineering from University of
Houston (2003). He also serves as managing partner for, a petroleum engineering services firm based in Houston.

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