S-Cube Team

Co-founder

Nikhil read Mathematics at the University of Cambridge and completed his doctorate at Imperial College London which gave rise to patented algorithmic developments in the theory of seismic imaging by waveform inversion. 

Whilst working for Chevron located initially in San Ramon, California and subsequently in Houston, Texas he was responsible for leading technology pilots of new seismic imaging algorithms applied to field datasets located in deepwater basins offshore Brazil and Nigeria.

He was appointed CEO of S-Cube in 2019 to accelerate its growth through product development and commercialisation. Under his leadership, the company has struck key partnerships with cloud platforms, energy service companies and operators. 

Co-founder

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).

He invented and patented Adaptive Waveform Inversion winning the Guido Bonarelli Award from EAGE in 2015 for this breakthrough for overcoming cycle skipping local minima in FWI. He has also spearheaded the use of FWI to the imaging of the brain.

X-Wave Creator

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.

The X-Wave toolbox has been the differentiating factor in successful FWI convergence with minimal human intervention in blind tests run in energy basins across the world.

Operations Lead

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.

Algorithm Researcher

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. 

Cloud and ML Lead

Christos holds an MEng in Computer Science from the University of Durham.

Since joining S-Cube in 2022, he has led the development and deployment of the cloud infrastructure which provisions the computational resources for FWI jobs to run across thousands of Spot multi-core workers. He is also focusing on automating both the inversion sequence decision-making and the AI-assisted analysis of subsequent results.

Chairman

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.