Cedric Fraces holds a master's degree in and is currently a PhD candidate for energy resources engineering from Stanford University. His research entails the application of physics-informed deep learning to reservoir simulation. He is a reservoir engineer with over 14 years of experience in the energy industry working on major oilfields in the US, Canada, China, Iraq, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia and he has been involved in executive decisions concerning the development and management of corresponding assets.