A digital trailblazer paves the way for others, creating a substantial impact and serving as a precursor to further digital innovation and value creation in the subsurface geoscience community.
At the upcoming Dig X Subsurface conference in Oslo in March, we will present the winner of the Digital Trailblazer Award 2024.
We are happy to announce that David Wade, Principal Geoscientist at Equinor, is one of the nominees.
Wade graduated from the University of Durham and has since 2011 worked on solving computing problems at IT Digital Research within Equinor. His professional skills include Deep Learning, CUDA, and Python.
Wade has been integral in developing new in-house tools at Equinor, first and foremost DELI, a machine learning seismic interpretation tool, and CUILLIN, a drill cutting analysis tool. Now, Wade and his colleagues have embarked on the development of the SCAMPI tool for identifying fossils in palynology slides, utilizing machine-assisted technology. SCAMPI will be presented at the Dig X Subsurface conference.
Colleagues and friends of David have described him as a dedicated father of a young family, interested in hiking, skiing, orienteering, and kayaking, a man of great intellect with heaps of creativity and an advanced sense of humor.
Some also suspect that his great ability to tackle challenges and solve problems is rooted in his academic foundation in astrophysics because, as everyone knows, Astrophysics is Everything.
David Wade is worthy of the award for being at the forefront and pushing boundaries in an incredibly fast-moving field.