Dr. Tatyana Plaksina is a leading expert in production data analysis (conventional and unconventional reservoirs), numerical simulation, reserve estimation and numerical optimization, geothermal energy, hybrid wind/CAES/HDR/geothermal systems and economic analysis and an award-winning assistant professor of petroleum engineering and renewable energy at the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at University of Calgary, AB, Canada. She holds a PhD in Petroleum Engineering from Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA, an MS in Petroleum Engineering from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA and BA in Math/Computer Science from Lawrence University, Appleton, WI, USA. Research interests of Dr. Plaksina include geothermal energy and CO2 sequestration, reservoir engineering of conventional and unconventional oil and gas assets, applications of optimization, AI and control theory to reservoir engineering, rate transient analysis (RTA), petroleum economics, risk analysis, and petroleum engineering education.