Presentations

Dr. Rita Esuru Okoroafor is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Stanford Center for Carbon Storage. Before embarking on the Ph.D. at Stanford University, where Dr. Okoroafor investigated optimal ways of harnessing Enhanced Geothermal Systems, she was a Principal Reservoir Engineer with Schlumberger. She garnered 13 years of oil and gas experience in several roles and locations. Her technical skills include Formation Evaluation, Reservoir Engineering, Geomechanics, Well Integrity Evaluation, Production Engineering, Integrated Asset Modeling, and Economic Analysis.

Dr. Okoroafor is an avid SPE and Geothermal Rising volunteer. She was a recipient of the SPE Africa Region Reservoir Dynamics and Description Award (2017), SPE International Young Member Outstanding Service Award (2016), and SPE Africa Region Young Member Outstanding Service Award (2014). She is an author of two novels, and is married with four children.

Anastasia Mironova is a Sr Program Manager in Azure Supply Chain at Microsoft, responsible for planning server cloud capacity, integration with Finance on capital approvals and Supply Chain. Prior to joining Microsoft, Anastasia was a Planning Engineer in Eagle Ford shale development. Prior to that Anastasia was in corporate Investment Appraisal, Strategy and Portfolio Management, Exploration, and Subsurface Technology. Anastasia has Masters of Science in Scientific Computing, Geophysics and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. She also has Bachelors of Science in Mathematics and Computer Science.

Faye Liu is the founder and CEO of RevoChem LLC, a Houston-based company pioneering geochemical fingerprinting technology to optimize energy production process. With businesses across both North and South America and clients of most major energy producers including BP, Chevron, Shell, ConocoPhillips, her company is assisting the energy industry to improve efficiency reduce cost and environmental impacts. She and her company were figured in the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express, and the technology the company invented has been reported in multiple energy industry journals. Faye holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Geochemistry, both from Indiana University, Bloomington. She also holds a B.S. in environmental engineering. She has first-authored over a dozen peer-reviewed papers which have been cited over 500 times globally.

Maitri Erwin is an award-winning industry pioneer in applied geo-computing, the empowerment and advancement of women and minorities in geoscience and STEM, and the mentoring of future leaders. With experience in energy exploration and subsurface technology development, Maitri has worked in geoscience and technology project and program leadership roles. Maitri is a Principal Program Manager at Microsoft Azure Global driving digital transformation in large Energy customers. Maitri has a B.S. in geology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a M.S. in structural geology and interdisciplinary master’s in computational sciences and geophysics from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Prior to joining Microsoft, Maitri worked as a geophysicist at Shell and in a series of technical and leadership roles at CNOOC. Maitri is a co-founder of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists Women’s Network, and currently serves as professional advisor to the SEG Women's Network Student Chapters and board member of Project Gutenberg.