Jayanth Nair is a Senior Data and GenAI Lead at Wood with over seven years of experience across oil and gas, manufacturing, and advanced analytics. He holds both an MS and a PhD in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Tulsa.
He began his career in flow assurance and process simulation before transitioning into data science and artificial intelligence. Jayanth has served as a technical lead on projects involving machine learning and reinforcement learning for global industrial clients, covering applications in process control, logistics, and manufacturing.
In his current role, he focuses on driving GenAI adoption, developing scalable DataOps and MLOps practices, and identifying high-value AI opportunities that deliver measurable operational impact.