Roman Shor, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering of the Schulich School of Engineering at the University of Calgary. He is the lead investigator of the integrated Drilling Research Laboratory (iDRL) and the co-lead investigator of the Geothermal Energy Laboratory, and his research interests lie in the areas of drillstring dynamics modeling and control, drilling optimization, drilling systems automation, and machine learning.