Eric Wang - Short Bio

Eric Wang is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in Petroleum Engineering under TUDRP and MS student in Business Analytics at the University of Tulsa. Before that, he earned both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Tulsa. His doctoral work is related to data analytics on drilling engineering, particularly early kick detection using real-time drilling data. Focusing on applying state-of-the-art artificial intelligence technology to ‘big data’ in drilling engineering, his work is highly relevant to some hot topics in the industry. He is an expert in cutting-edge machine learning and deep learning algorithms and is proficient in many common programming languages. Meanwhile, as a master’s student in Business Analytics, Eric is skillful at the work of a data scientist, providing business and engineering insights through data analysis. Eric interned with the Landmark team, Halliburton in Houston in Summer 2021 working as a drilling optimization software developer. Eric currently lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and uses his free time to work out, travel, invest and work on PC projects.