Sonny Irawan
Dr. Sonny Irawan is an associate professor of the Petroleum Engineering Department, School of Mining and Geoscience, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan. He holds a BSc, MSc, and Ph.D. in Drilling Engineering. He has more than 24 years of teaching and supervisory experience in petroleum engineering, including academic program development and drilling engineering facilities establishment. He was appointed a visiting professor at universities in Malaysia, Indonesia, and Kazakhstan. He has also served as a peer reviewer and external examiner expert and has sat on advisory panels. He has published technical papers on drilling engineering and well intervention for conferences and journals and authored three book chapters. He is also involved in more than twenty industrial research projects on well design for enhanced oil recovery (EOR), conventional and unconventional reservoirs, drilling fluid, cementing, well stimulation, nanotechnology application, and machine learning in drilling engineering.