Data Science and Machine Learning Applications in Subsurface Engineering (PDF)

Daniel Asante Otchere is an AI/ML Scientific Engineer at the Institute of Computational and Data Sciences (ICDS) at Pennsylvania State University, USA. He holds a PhD in petroleum engineering from Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP) in Malaysia, a Master's degree in Petroleum Geoscience from the University of Manchester in UK, and a Bachelor's degree in Geological Engineering from the University of Mines and Technology in Ghana. Professionally, Daniel has extensive experience across the mining and oil and gas industry, working on several onshore and offshore projects that have had a significant impact on the industry in Africa and South East Asia. He serves as a technical committee member of the World Geothermal Congress and teaches several AI topics on his YouTube channel "Study with Dani". His expertise has resulted in numerous collaborative research efforts, yielding several articles published in renowned journals and conferences. He was recognised for excellence in teaching and research in the Petroleum Engineering Department at UTP and received the 2021 best postgraduate student and the Graduate Assistant merit award in 2021 and 2022. He enjoys watching movies, listening to Highlife and Afrobeats music, hockey, and playing football. He also excels in the realm of video games, having won numerous PlayStation-FIFA tournaments held in the United Kingdom, Ghana, and Malaysia.