Dr. Tatyana Plaksina is an 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. Dr. Plaksina was an interpretation engineer at Schlumberger DCS and Houston Formation Evaluation Center as well as a reservoir simulation engineer at Chevron Energy Technology Company. She is an author of multiple peer-reviewed journal publications (including Journals of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, Geothermal Energy, and Energy Optimization and Engineering) and a frequent speaker at reputable conferences such as SPE ATCE (Society of Petroleum Engineers Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition), URTeC (Unconventional Resources Technology Conference), GeoConvention, Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition, and AAPG ACE (American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Conference and Exhibition).