Samuel Appiah Acheampong is a Graduate Research Assistant working in the Reservoir Evaluation and Advanced Computational Technologies (REACT) group at the Petroleum Recovery Research Center, New Mexico Tech. He has a BS in Petroleum Engineering from KNUST, Ghana, an MS in Petroleum Engineering and currently pursuing a PhD in Petroleum Engineering from New Mexico Tech. Samuel is a member of the group engaged with utilizing geomechanics, VSP, microseismic data and machine-learning workflows to improve the prediction of the stress field in Farnsworth field unit. His research interests include Reservoir Simulation Modeling, Reservoir Geomechanics, CO2 Capture and untilization, Machine-learning Optimization.