Sameer V.

About Sameer V.

Chief Engineer for Data Analytics & Reliability, and part of GE Vernova - Gas Power\'s Chief Technology Office. Responsible for Technology Leadership, Strategy and Governance over all Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Reliability Engineering and Services Risk Management value streams across the engineering organization. Experienced Senior Engineering Leader and Data Scientist - Led multiple global analytics organizations and developed a multibillion dollar portfolio of analytics-enabled products and services.Domain expertise across the Energy industry - Traditional (Gas Turbine, Steam Power, Nuclear), Renewables (Onshore and Offshore Wind, Solar) and Decarbonization (Hydrogen, Carbon Capture). Guiding the development of highly reliable power plants and energy systems for data center applications and industrial decarbonizationFunctional expertise in building data science solutions across diverse functions - Engineering Services, Strategy, Product Management, Capital Allocation, Predictive Maintenance, Quality & Reliability Engineering, Long Term Services Agreements and Asset Performance Management (APM).Subject Matter Expertise in Industrial Statistics, Operations Research, Optimization, Mechanical Engineering, Actuarial Science, Simulation, Data Mining, Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence. Authored 30+ peer-reviewed technical publications in analytics, 7 patents, and frequently invited to speak at professional forums nation-wide.

Experience

1. Chief Engineer - Data Science & Reliability, Chief Technology Office (Gas Power)

   GE Vernova

   Jan 2020 — Present · Atlanta, GA, US

   Responsible for Technology Leadership, Strategy & Governance over all Data Science, Reliability Engineering, Services Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and GenAI value streams across Gas Power engineering. Technology Leadership : Am one of the company’s leading Subject Matter Experts in Statistics, Operations Research, AI/ML, Quality & Reliability Engineering, Asset Performance Management and Quantitative Risk Modeling. Also support GE Vernova’s Wind and Digital businesses as their chief engineer for reliability analyticsGovernance, Risk & Compliance : Approving business cases, processes, design practices, software, decision support tools & engineering designs; selecting technologies and partners/vendors; chairing design reviews; and risk management analytics over a multibillion-dollar portfolio of long term services contractsLeadership & Strategy : Develop AI Product Strategy and Technology Roadmaps; lead adoption of AI best practices in our Lean-Digital, Risk Management, IP, Services and Operations Excellence value streams; and grow External collaboration (Governments, Research Institutes, Academia)

Education

• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  MS, Mechanical Engineering

  1997 — 1999

• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  PhD, Mechanical Engineering

  1999 — 2002

• Bangalore University

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Mechanical Engineering

  1990 — 1994

• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Analytics

Skills

• Reliability Engineering
• Gas Turbines
• Sas
• Jmp
• Analytics
• Reliasoft (Weibull++, Blocksim, Alta, Rga ..)
• Process Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• Predictive Analytics
• Power Plants
• Finite Element Analysis
• Program Management
• Six Sigma
• Simulations
• Condition Monitoring
• Turbines
• Engineering
• Renewable Energy
• Energy
• Engineering Management
• Risk Management
• Data Mining
• Operations Research
• Power Generation
• Analytics Consulting
• Matlab
• Weka
• R
• Minitab