Vladimir Kazei is a research geophysicist at Artificial Intelligence Team of Aramco Americas. Vladimir received his PhD degree in Geophysics from the Saint Petersburg State University and Schmidt Institute of the Physics of the Earth of Russian Academy of Sciences in 2016. He then worked at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology as a research scientist prior to joining HRC in 2020. Vladimir’s recent contributions to applied geophysics in areas of machine learning, DAS, and full-waveform inversion (FWI) were noted as groundbreaking innovations by the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) and marked with a prestigious Clarence J. Karcher award in 2023.