Dr. Srikanta Mishra is Senior Research Leader and Technical Director for Geo-energy Resource Modeling and Analytics at Battelle Memorial Institute, the world’s largest independent contract R&D organization. He is nationally and internationally recognized for his expertise in developing and communicating physics-based and data-driven predictive models for subsurface resource management. Dr. Mishra currently serves as the Technical Lead of the SMART (Science Informed Machine Learning for Accelerating Real-time Decisions for Subsurface applications) initiative, organized by the US Department of Energy and involving multiple national laboratories and universities. He was a recipient of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Distinguished Member Award in 2021, and also served as a Global Distinguished Lecturer on Big Data Analytics for SPE during 2018–19 and received the 2022 SPE Data Science and Engineering Analytics Award.