Prof. William Ampomah is an Assistant Professor of Petroleum Engineering at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, United States. He was recently appointed by the New Mexico Secretary of Energy as a Commissioner to the Oil Conservation Commission. Dr. Ampomah has also held the role of Section Head of the Reservoir Evaluation/Advanced Computational Technologies (REACT) group at the Petroleum Recovery Research Center (PRRC) at New Mexico Tech since 2018. He is the Principal Investigator and Co-Principal Investigator of at least five (5) U.S. Department of Energy (US-DOE) grants. Dr. Ampomah has published over 60 papers and several presentations in areas of enhanced oil recovery, CO2 sequestration, reservoir characterization, and application of machine learning in numerical simulation and optimization. Dr. Ampomah obtained MS and PhD degrees from New Mexico Tech in 2012 and 2016, respectively, in Petroleum Engineering. He completed his BS in Petroleum Engineering at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science.