Ashwin Venkatraman

Dr. Venkatraman was appointed in December 2024 to serve as a director and as a member of the Audit Committee.

Dr. Venkatraman is President and Chief Executive Officer of Resermine, Inc., a leader in subsurface artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions with a focus on enhancing oil recovery, a company that he founded in 2017. From January 2019 to December 2020, Dr. Venkatraman was an Associate Professor of Petroleum and Geological Engineering at the University of Oklahoma. From 2015 to 2017, Dr. Venkatraman held academic appointments as a Postdoctoral Fellow in The Institute of Computational & Engineering Sciences, at The University of Texas at Austin, and as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University. From 2004 to 2015, Dr. Venkatraman held various positions of increasing responsibility at Shell International Exploration and Production Inc., including Senior Reservoir Engineer; Research Reservoir Engineer; Concept Engineer; and Operations Engineer, Panna-Mukta Field.

Dr. Venkatraman earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Technology and Chemical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India, and his Ph.D. in Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin.