Wilson Chin earned his M.Sc. at Caltech and his Ph.D. from M.I.T. An experienced petroleum engineer, he has authored twenty monographs with Wiley-Scrivener and other publishers, over a hundred papers and more than four dozen patents. He is the recipient of five prestigious awards from the United States Department of Energy and is a well-regarded software developer with strong interests in formation testing, reservoir engineering, drilling and cementing rheology, borehole electromagnetics, managed pressure drilling and Measurement-While-Drilling.