ROMAN SHOR, Ph.D., is a Energi Simulation Industrial Research Chair in Geothermal Systems at the University of Calgary. Dr. Shor is an associate Professor in the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering of the Schulich School of Engineering at the University of Calgary. He is the lead investigator of the integrated Drilling Research Laboratory (iDRL), the co-lead investigator of the Geothermal Energy Laboratory (GEL) and an instructor in the Sustainable Energy Development M.Sc. program. He is interested in energy systems, the interplay of renewable and traditional energy sources, systems thinking, and sustainability.

His research interests lie in the areas of drillstring dynamics modelling and control, drilling optimization and drilling systems automation. Specifically, the application of reduced-order modelling and modelling for control to enable model predictive control for drilling tasks and drilling optimization through data processing and machine learning.

His collaborative research projects include an investigation of fluid rheology with applications to drilling fluids, magnetorheological fluids and their applications, hydraulic fracture placement optimization, and applications of seismic processing methods to drillstring imaging. Finally, he is also active in the areas of machine learning and artificial intelligence with particular attention to applications in the energy industry.

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