Mehrdad Gharib Shirangi

2014 | Recipient of Hossein Kazemi Award from APPIH
2012 | Recipient of SPE Star Fellowship in the Western North American Region
2011 | Member of Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society
2004 | Ranked 30^th among 450,000 participants in the nation-wide university entrance examination (Konkour) and 2^nd in Gorgan , Iran

2022-Present | Data Science & AI Leader Cisco
2019-2021 | Sr Manager, Data & Analytics Baker Hughes
2016-2019 | Sr Staff data scientist GE
2013-2014 | Operations Research Engineer at QRI Group Innovation Group
2007-2009 | Simulation & analytics engineer at North Drilling Company (offshore oil & gas drilling)
2005-2007 | Mechanical engineer at Gorgan Felez Company (auto parts manufacturing)

2019 | Shirangi, M. G., Closed-loop field development with multipoint geostatistics and statistical performance assessment. Journal of Computational Physics 390: 249-264. (download)
2017 | Shirangi, M. G., Volkov, O., Durlofsky, L. J., Joint optimization of economic project life and well controls. SPE Journal (download)
2016 | Shirangi, M. G., Durlofsky, L. J., A general method to select representative models for decision making and optimization under uncertainty, Computers & Geosciences 96: 109-123. (download)
2016 | Shirangi, M. G., Emerick, A. A., An Improved TSVD-based Levenberg-Marquardt Algorithm for History Matching and Comparison with Gauss-Newton, Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering 143: 258-271. (download)
2015 | Shirangi, M. G., Durlofsky, L. J., Closed-loop field development under uncertainty by use of optimization with sample validation, SPE Journal 20 (05): 908-922. (download)
2014 | Shirangi, M. G., History matching production data and uncertainty assessment with an efficient TSVD parameterization algorithm, Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering 113: 54-71. (download)

2017 | Shirangi, M. G., Volkov, O., Durlofsky, L. J., Joint optimization of economic project life and well controls. Paper SPE 182642 presented at SPE Reservoir Simulation Conference, Houston, Texas. (download)
2015 | Shirangi, M. G., Durlofsky, L. J., Closed-loop field development optimization under uncertainty. Paper SPE 173219 presented at SPE RSS, Houston, Texas. (download)
2012 | Shirangi, M. G., Mukerji, T., Retrospective optimization of well controls under uncertainty using kernel clustering, Proceedings of the 25th Annual SCRF Meeting, Monterey, CA. (download)
2012 | Shirangi, M. G., Applying Machine Learning Algorithms to Production Optimization, Stanford Machine Learning. (download)

2019 | Shirangi, M. G., Samnejad, M., Automated machine learning in data science - Advances and Opportunities. DevFest Houston, Sep 28.
2019 | Shirangi, M. G., Automated machine learning: democratizing data science. Teias Summer School of Data Science.
2018 | Shirangi, M. G., Statistical Assessment of Closed-Loop Field Development (CLFD) Optimization | Joint Optimization of Economic Project Life and Well Controls. Engineering Department Seminar at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
2016 | Shirangi, M. G., Durlofsky, L. J., Selection of representative models for decision making and optimization under uncertainty. AGU fall meeting, San Francisco, California.

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