Amy (Xiaorui) Guan
About Amy (Xiaorui) Guan
Amy (Xiaorui) Guan is a Senior Metocean Engineer at Chevron, with extensive experience in offshore platform design and statistical analysis of large datasets.
Company
Amy (Xiaorui) Guan is currently employed at Chevron as a Senior Metocean Engineer. Before this role, Guan held the position of Metocean and Marine Terminal Engineer at Chevron from 2013 to 2018. Her experience at Chevron includes key projects and initiatives focusing on metocean engineering.
Title
Amy (Xiaorui) Guan holds the title of Senior Metocean Engineer at Chevron. In this capacity, she brings extensive knowledge and hands-on experience in metocean engineering, contributing to the company’s offshore projects and developments.
Education and Expertise
Amy (Xiaorui) Guan completed her Ph.D. in Oceanography/Statistics/Earth & Environmental Sciences at Columbia University in the City of New York, spanning from 2003 to 2009. She further enriched her expertise with a Six Month Data Camp and Professional & Corporation Programs at Rice University, completed in 2020. Guan’s education has equipped her with a deep understanding of oceanographic phenomena, statistical analysis, and data science applications.
Background
Amy (Xiaorui) Guan has held various positions in the field of metocean engineering. She worked as a Metocean Engineer at Shell Global Solutions from 2012 to 2013, and before that, she served as Project Oceanographer at Fugro from 2009 to 2012, both in the Houston, Texas Area. These roles have provided her with a cohesive background in metocean and oceanographic project coordination and management.
Achievements
Among her notable achievements, Amy (Xiaorui) Guan served as project manager for a machine learning project that used the SmartSignal Tool to analyze a decade’s worth of wind, wave, and current data. In 2019, she won the Chevron Fellows Innovation Program for a project on the potential deployment of a Smart Unmanned Surface Vehicle for offshore surveys. Additionally, she has played a crucial role in deriving reliability design criteria for offshore platform design and has been actively engaged in digital acceleration and transformation initiatives.