Arash Dahi Taleghani, Ph.D., is a professor of petroleum engineering at Penn State. Before joining Penn State, he was an associate professor of petroleum engineering at Louisiana State University while serving as an independent consultant in the oil and gas industry. He earned an M.S. in civil engineering from the Sharif University of Technology and his Ph.D. in petroleum engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. He has numerous publications and patents in the field of drilling and completions. In 2014, he received the Distinguished Achievement Award for Petroleum Engineering Faculty from the Society of Petroleum Engineering (SPE). He also received the SPE Eastern North America Regional Completions Optimization and Technology Award in 2017. He is currently researching reservoir geomechanics, hydraulic fracturing, wellbore integrity, and drill bit mechanics.
Livio Santos, Ph.D., is a Research Associate at Penn State. He received his Ph.D. fromthe same university in 2020. He has a track record for research in wellbore integrity, drilling engineering, and petroleum data analytics.