Siavash Hakim-Elahi, Ph.D.

Los Angeles, CA https://www.linkedin.com/in/siavash-hakim-elahi

https://github.com/siavashhakim
hakimela@usc.edu http://www-scf.usc.edu/~hakimela

SUMMARY
Analytics enthusiast with more than five years of solid experience in stochastic Bayesian modeling, well
control and well placement optimization, machine learning and physics-based simulation and real-world
data analysis. Demonstrated skills in uncertainty quantification, pattern recognition, distributed
computation for artificial intelligence and learning systems. The results of my work have been reported
in more than 5 journals/conferences.

 Machine Learning  Python  Spotfire  PETREL

 Bayesian Modeling  MATLAB  Tableau  SGeMS
 Deep Learning  Computer Vision  MYSQL  CMG
 Distributed Computing  Applied Statistics

PROJECTS
 Oil Production Forecast: Automated physics based oil production forecasting algorithms for
unconventional/conventional reservoirs. Developed using python programming language. Data of
more than 10,000 wells across US were managed using MYSQL.

 Recommendation System: Development of a smart recommendation system to forecast required

well stimulation processes such as re-fracking and acid job. Enhanced the oil production by
recommending and implementing appropriate stimulation techniques.

 Geo-Pattern Recognition: A novel distance transform for characterization of geological features.

Improved the estimation of rock facies connectivity and reduced the integration time using static and
dynamic data.

 Geo-Image Clustering: Classification of prior geo-images using K-means clustering technique.

Reduced the integration time significantly from days to minutes.

 Optimum Field Facilities: Designing optimum surface and subsurface field facilities for a heavy oil
reservoir stimulated with steam injection and underground combustion.

 Optimization Package: Optimization of well control and well placement using Quasi Newton and
SPSA algorithms.

 Fractured Reservoir: Characterization of fractured reservoir by assimilation of monitoring and

performance data with ensemble based methods.

 Seismic Data Assimilation: Seismicity based reservoir characterization of KTB field, Germany with
Ensemble Kalman Filtering (EnKF).

PROFESSIOAL EXPERIENCE
Data Scientist, TERRA-AI company, Summer 2016
Research Assistant, USC, 2012-2017
Reservoir Engineer, University of Tehran, 2010-2012
Research Assistant, InGas company, Summer 2010
EDUCATION
Ph.D. : Petroleum Engineering, University of Southern California – Los Angeles, CA
Minor : Computer Science, University of Southern California – Los Angeles, CA
M.Sc. : Chemical Engineering, University of Tehran – Iran