Pooya Movahed

Lead Quantitative Developer @ExxonMobil

Houston, TX, US
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WORK HISTORY

Nov 2025 — Present

Lead Quantitative Developer @ExxonMobil

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Developed a gas storage valuation application leveraging FEA and Kyos as valuation engines to support daily hedging strategies for the front office and risk management.

EDUCATION

2009 — 2011

University of Michigan

Master's degree, Mechanical Engineering

2011 — 2014

University of Michigan

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mechanical Engineering

2004 — 2009

University of Tehran

Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering

ABOUT POOYA MOVAHED

I am a seasoned data scientist with a 15-year track record of delivering impactful results across various industries- Gas lift Optimization: developed and deployed a closed-loop, data-driven gas lift optimization workflow to wells in the Permian basin achieving a sustained 2% increase in oil production- Reservoir simulator development: led the team in charge of developing simulator tools for well management modeling as a C++/MPI software developer on a major project to create optimization algorithms for ExxonMobil’s in-house parallel reservoir simulator- Cavitation research: conducted experiments and developed a theoretical model to investigate cavitation-induced damage mechanisms in soft tissues- High-performance computing: designed efficient solvers for high-speed turbulent flow studies, contributing to advancements in aeronautics, energy sciences, and biomedical engineering.Expertise: proficient in C++ and Python, machine learning, agile software development, high performance computing, quantitative analytics, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), turbulence modeling, and multi-phase flows.Contact: p•••••@umich.edu

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