Dr. Zhangxing (John) Chen is a professor in the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering. He currently holds the NSERC/AIEES/Foundation CMG Industrial Research Chair in Reservoir Simulation and the AITF (iCORE) Industrial Chair in Reservoir Modeling. He is the director of the Frank and Sarah Meyer Foundation CMG Collaboration Centre at the University of Calgary. He has over 35 years of oil and gas academic and industrial experience from around the globe. He has published and/or edited 15 books and over 530 research papers, and has given over 341 invited (plenary and keynote) presentations worldwide. He has received numerous prestigious awards such as The NSERC Synergy Award for Innovation, The Outstanding Leadership in Alberta Technology Award, IBM Faculty Award, Imperial Oil University Research Award and Gerald J. Ford Research Fellowship Award. His research interest is in reservoir engineering and numerical reservoir simulation for conventional and unconventional oil and gas reservoirs.