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Amit Kumar

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Exploration AI Research Program Manager at ExxonMobil
📍 Spring, Texas, United States

Amit is the Exploration AI Research Program Manager at ExxonMobil, where he leads digital transformation efforts. He specializes in deploying advanced analytics and AI/ML solutions to optimize upstream operations, leveraging his PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His work on wellsite automation has generated over $50M in savings.

There is no publicly available information about Amits personal life. Based on his education and work locations, he may have an interest in college and professional sports teams from Illinois and Texas. [Predicted]

His stated professional goal is to build an AI agent that can "think, act and reason like a production engineer. "

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Experience
15 Years
Current Role
Exploration AI Research Program Manager
Job Level
Middle
Location
Spring, Texas, United States
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Scaling AI Initiatives
He frequently speaks on panels about taking digital projects from the pilot phase to scaled success and proving the value of machine learning for predictive maintenance.
Agentic AI Systems
Considers Agentic AI and Multi-Agent Collaboration to have significant potential and impact within the energy sector, aiming to build agents that reason like engineers.
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Career

Work history

10-2025
Exploration AI Research Program Manager
ExxonMobil
7-2021 - 10-2025
Data Science Technical Project Manager, Unconventional Business Line
ExxonMobil
1-2018 - 6-2021
Computational Sciences Team Lead
ExxonMobil
10-2013 - 12-2017
Computational Fluids Scientist
ExxonMobil
2010 - 2013
Postdoctoral Research Associate
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Education
PhD
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
B.Tech
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
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