CEO

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 in Earth Science R&D 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 fields located in basins offshore Brazil and Nigeria.

He was appointed CEO of S-Cube in 2019 to accelerate its growth through commercial trials. Under his leadership, the company has struck key partnerships with Amazon Web Services and Halliburton and rolled out its proprietary technology to early adopters such as Chevron and Woodside. 

Technical Director

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-recognised 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 Adaptive Waveform Inversion and won the Guido Bonarelli Award from EAGE in 2015 for this breakthrough. He has spearheaded the use of Machine Learning in FWI, and direct imaging using FWI. He is also applying FWI to brain imaging using ultrasound to facilitate rapid diagnosis and treatment for acute stroke and head trauma.

XWI Creator

Adrian is a leading figure in the mathematical and computational implementation of Full Waveform Inversion. He is known for creating the highly-adopted FULLWAVE3D software package as part of a world-leading research consortium at Imperial College London with members including many of the world’s largest energy companies.

At S-Cube he has created the XWI algorithm toolbox which differentiates S-Cube commercially from the rest of the industry and provides competitive advantage in terms of accuracy and robustness. His work has been instrumental in resource upgrades worth billions of dollars to date across assets around the world.

Operations Lead

Tenice is a geophysical data analyst with expertise across the spectrum from seismic acquisition to processing to quantiative interpretation. 

Specialising in seismic waveform inversion during her PhD at Imperial College London, her work resulted in the Geophysics Best Paper award for 2013 with an robust FWI application in the time-domain 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 Developer 

Ningzhi is an algorithm developer. At S-Cube he is involved in the development of the company’s core XWI algorithms and the construction of the company’s project dashboard for real-time monitoring of large scale jobs spanning 1000’s of EC2 workers on AWS with live log ingestion.

Before that he obtained a distinction in his Computing MEng at Imperial, completing his final year project on Quantum Particle Swarm Optimisation which now forms part of XWI’s hyperparameter tuning capability.

Algorithm Researcher

John is an algorithm researcher. At S-Cube he is involved in investigating the algorithms and mathematics underlying XWI and in particular solving fundamental problems in parameter extraction from reflection seismic data.

Before joining S-Cube he studied Mathematics at the University of Oxford. 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.

Commercial Lead

Paul brings 20+ years of seismic processing and imaging experience to S-Cube to drive the commercialization of our cloud-native XWI suite of products. Using this advanced formulation and dynamic implementation to solve complex subsurface problems for key customers, as well as strengthening bonds with current partners and creating new collaborative opportunities.

Paul comes to S-Cube from a technology leader in FWI and advanced imaging. He has delivered many successful projects to energy sector customers across the globe, applying FWI to build accurate, high resolution sub-surface models.

Business Development

David has held a range of commercial and technical roles in seismic data processing.  Prior to joining S-Cube, he was Processing Manager with Geotrace Technologies, with responsibility for writing and negotiating contracts, managing large data processing groups, promoting new and current technologies, and establishing new ventures and partnerships in the EAME and US regions. At the start of his career he spent five years in land seismic data acquisition.  David holds a 1^st class degree in physics and a PhD in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance from Nottingham University.

Tony is Chairman of S-Cube. He spent more than 30 years with BP in a range of technical, commercial and management roles over several continents leaving as Commercial Director responsible for Business Development in the Middle East. Previously Tony was Manager Strategic Business Development leading BP into Angola and new business areas.

In 2006 Tony left BP to set up the consultancy firm Oil Experience Ltd, which was acquired by RPS Energy in 2007. Tony was co-founder of White Rose Energy and OGL Geothermal, both private-equity backed exploration companies.

Artun joined the IP Group team following the combination with Touchstone Innovations, where he was sourcing and evaluating early-stage technology and engineering investments since 2016. He focuses on novel chemicals and materials, clean tech and engineering sectors. He represents IP Group on the board of various portfolio companies, whilst also seeking new high-growth investment opportunities. Previously, Artun has worked in Technology Transfer and IP management at Imperial Innovations, where he identified, protected and managed intellectual property from Imperial College London and has assisted various commercial deals. 

Sean has 32 years’ experience in the oil industry. Having completed a physics degree at Oxford University he started his career as a seismic processor culminating in the first ever 3D seismic project at Ensign Geophysics Ltd. At BP he developed expertise in rock physics, AVO and impedance inversion and completed an MBA. Sean joined ERCE in 2005 as Director of Geophysics and is responsible for advanced seismic analysis techniques utilised in technical advisory work. He is a member of the SEG, EAGE and PESGB.

Jo is Professor at the Department of Earth Sciences in Imperial College London. She is currently co-chief scientist IODP drilling of the Chicxulub impact crater, and a member of the UK ICDP committee. Her research background in regional seismology and blue sky research, as well as her extensive seismic data processing skills, broaden the know-how of the team.

Felix is currently Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Energy and Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He was previously director of the UBC-Seismic Laboratory for Imaging and Modeling (SLIM), which he founded in 2003, where he became a world leader in theoretical and computational exploration seismology, compressive sensing and large-scale optimization. He was the Distinguished Lecturer of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) in 2019.

Lluis is Research Fellow at Imperial College London, where he completed a PhD in Elastic Full Waveform Inversion. He has been active in the field of seismic inversion since he finished his Physics degree at University of Barcelona in 2005, and has worked in several groups across Europe before joining S-Cube. He is a co-inventor of the patented Adaptive Waveform Inversion algorithm winning the Guido Bonarelli Award in 2015.