Sharifah Ali holds both a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Petroleum Engineering from Kuwait University. With over ten years of professional experience as a production engineer at the Kuwait Oil Company, her expertise includes optimizing oil production processes. Currently, she is pursuing a Ph.D. in Petroleum Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines, where her research focuses on multiphase flow monitoring and the utilization of fiber optic technologies within the oil and gas industry. Her academic and professional pursuits are aimed at enhancing the efficiency and safety of petroleum extraction and transportation through advanced sensor technologies.

Dr. Ge Jin is an Associate Professor of Geophysics and Co-director of the Reservoir Characterization Project at the Colorado School of Mines (Mines). He is interested in distributed fiber-optic sensing (DFOS) applications in geophysics, as well as seismic imaging and machine learning applications. He initiated and developed several important DFOS applications for oil and gas applications, including cross-well strain monitoring, DAS-based microseismic imaging, DFOS-based production logging, and reservoir characterization. Before joining Mines, he worked as a research geophysicist in the industry for 5 years. Dr. Jin obtained his Ph.D. in Geophysics from Columbia University in the City of New York and a dual B.S. in Geophysics and Computer Science from Peking University.

Dr. Yilin Fan is an Assistant Professor at Colorado School of Mines. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Oil and Gas Storage and Transportation Engineering from the China University of Petroleum and received her Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Tulsa. Before joining the Colorado School of Mines, she worked as a post-doc research associate at the University of Tulsa. Her research interests include but are not limited to steady-state and transient multiphase flow in pipelines and wellbores, gas well deliquification, artificial lift design and optimization, multiphase flow-related flow assurance issues, as well as the application of fiber-optic sensing in production logging and optimization. She received the Best Paper Award at the 17th International Conference on Multiphase Technology and was awarded the ACS PRF and DOT PHMSA CAAP. She is currently serving as a member of the SPE Production and Facility Advisory Committee (P&FAC), associate editor for SPE Journal and Geoenergy Science and Engineering, and technical reviewer for several peer-reviewed journals and research grant proposals.