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Dr. Nikhil Shah is Founder & CEO of S-Cube Technologies. A Cambridge-trained mathematician and serial entrepreneur, Nikhil bridges elite algorithmic research with meaningful commercial scale. He led S-Cube to be shortlisted as Subsurface Innovator of the Year for 2025 by Darcy Partners based on its developments for land FWI. In 2024 he successfully exited a hospitality analytics start up to Cloudbeds (Series D). In 2021 he received the Growing Business Awards, Micro Business of the Year and in 2019 Asian Business Awards, Young Entrepreneur of the Year. He started his career at Chevron USA filing numerous patents for algorithmic innovations in subsurface imaging.

Mike is Professor of Geophysics at Imperial College London. He joined Imperial as the BP Lecturer 25 years ago, founded the Department of Earth Science and Engineering which now has over 600 students and hosts the internationally-recognized FULLWAVE research consortium of leading energy companies. He has over 150 peer-reviewed publications, including 7 in Nature.

He has received multiple awards from both the Society of Exploration Geophysics and the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE).

Adrian is a mathematician and computational optimization expert who has pioneered 3D FWI initially as a lead researcher at Imperial College London.

Between 2006 and 2020, he led the development of the highly-adopted FULLWAVE3D software package rolled out to many of the world's largest energy companies as part of Imperial's world-leading research consortium.

Since joining S-Cube in 2020, he has developed the X-Wave cloud-native software for FWI for automated imaging in highly complex marine and land settings.

Tenice is an expert FWI practitioner with a unique combination of geophysical skills and cloud HPC user experience.

Specialising in FWI during her PhD at Imperial College London, her work resulted in the Geophysics Best Paper award for 2013 from the Society of Exploration Geophysicists with a robust application to a North Sea gas field with a significant seismic obscured area to characterise.

Tenice became Operations Lead for S-Cube in 2019 shaping the company's best practices for taking new algorithms from testing into commercial deployment.

John is an algorithm researcher who read Mathematics at the University of Oxford and continued to complete his doctorate in Pure Maths from the same institution.

During his doctorate, in the field of Number Theory, he worked on problems of effectivity and computation for class numbers, elliptic and modular functions, and transcendence.

From joining S-Cube in 2021, he has been involved in bringing through the next wave of XWI advances in terms of cost functions which can extract deep macro models from reflection data.

Christos spearheaded the industry’s first fault-tolerant AWS Graviton architecture and AI-enabled dashboard, delivering a 70% reduction in infrastructure costs for global energy titans including Shell, Petrobras and Woodside.

Architecting S-Cube’s product-market fit across high-stakes onshore US and India operations, his leadership was the catalyst for winning the 2025 Subsurface Innovation Award from Darcy Partners.

Tony spent some 30+ years with BP in a variety of technical, commercial and executive management roles across Europe, Asia, Australasia, West Africa, South America and the US leaving as Commercial Director with responsibility for business development across the Middle East.

He then set up Oil Experience Ltd; a networked consultancy consisting of some 400 ex major oil company professionals which was sold to RPS Energy. Tony was co-founder of White Rose Energy, an oil company focused on E&P in West Africa raising >$400 mill with the Private Equity companies First Reserve and Riverstone. He was also Chairman of an AIM listed oil company.

Tony is currently Non-Exec Chairman of OGL Geothermal, Airponix Ltd, EPEX Training Ltd, CO2Co Ltd, Saving India's Tigers as well as S-Cube and Board Advisor to ISS Aerospace Ltd.

Adam Kovacs is the Head of Research at S-Cube, leading R&D and turning advances in full-waveform inversion into field-ready solutions for complex subsurface challenges.

He directed S-Cube's West Harrison Bay project in one of Alaska's most demanding Arctic imaging environments. The project delivered unprecedented 45 Hz imaging and helped define five drillable prospects within an estimated two-billion-barrel resource opportunity. His technical direction combined targeted Time-Space-Lag FWI across two integrated surveys with angle-range-limited FDR inversions, bringing exceptional resolution and FWI-driven AVA insight to prospect evaluation.

Adam holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Aberdeen, where he specialised in operations research, with a focus on AI-enabled stochastic optimisation methods.

Iqbal is a Senior AI Engineer at S-Cube, specializing in bridging cutting-edge artificial intelligence with robust, production-grade software engineering. He holds a Master's degree in Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning) from Imperial College London.

At S-Cube, Iqbal's primary focus centers on Applied AI, intelligent automations, and full-stack software development. A key highlight of his work includes leading the development of XWAI, architecting both the initial tool-heavy ReAct framework (XWAI v1) and evolving it into XWAI v2, a high-performance, orchestrator-style multi-agent architecture built for enterprise scale and low latency.

Beyond multi-agent systems, Iqbal engineers high-performance data pipelines, advanced RAG frameworks, and modern full-stack platform architecture, transforming complex machine learning concepts into fast, reliable production systems.

Sourajit is a computational scientist with experience in mathematical optimisation and numerical software across multiple industries. At S-Cube, he creates reliable, performant code for novel geophysics algorithms in addition to making contributions to theoretical developments. His secondary focus area is the creation of bespoke software tools for automating the entire lifecycle of an FWI project.

Toby Oxford is a Geophysicist at S-Cube with experience in the Energy Sector, Mineral Exploration and UXO Remediation across Uk, Austraila and Asia. He holds a MSci in Geophysics from Imperial College London.

Ryan Gibson is a Full Stack Developer at S-Cube, early in his career and holding a First Class Bachelor's degree in Computer Science.

At S-Cube, his work spans full-stack web development — building and maintaining the platforms and client-facing tools that put X-Wave and XWAI in front of the team and clients, helping turn advances in the underlying technology into reliable, polished experiences.