Speakers

Liam holds an M.Eng. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Calgary. He started his career as a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Engineer at Schlumberger, then served as an Integrity/Stress Engineer at Stantec, specializing in Finite Element Analysis (FEA) on buried pipelines and worked primarily on advanced integrity applications. Currently, he is working as an Integrity Engineer at TC Energy, focusing on pipeline dent analysis.

Mohammad Salem is a licensed Pipeline Integrity Engineer (P.Eng.) with a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Alberta. With a strong foundation in computational mechanics and engineering software, he has been working with advanced finite element tools such as Abaqus and ANSYS since 2007. Dr. Salem has been actively involved in the oil and gas industry since 2015, specializing in pipeline and piping integrity since 2017. His technical expertise includes performing stress analysis using Abaqus, Bentley AutoPIPE, and CAESAR II, with a focus on ensuring compliance with industry codes and standards. Between 2018 and 2019, he developed custom Fortran subroutines to model crack initiation and propagation in pipelines, contributing to more accurate and predictive integrity assessments. In addition to his engineering analysis capabilities, Dr. Salem has been scripting in Python and MATLAB since 2015, and since 2016, has been developing engineering tools and Abaqus plugins to automate processes and enhance simulation workflows in accordance with regulatory standards. His work combines deep technical knowledge with software development skills, making him a valuable contributor to pipeline integrity and simulation-based engineering design.

Trevor Seipp is an Engineering Fellow and the Canadian Operations Lead with Becht. He is a world-renowned expert in the application of the ASME Section VIII, Division 2, Part 5, Design-By-Analysis rules. He teaches a training course on that subject that attracts attendees from around the world. He is a member of numerous ASME Code Committees, including the committee responsible for the Design-By-Analysis rules. He is a Professional Engineer in the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, and Ontario.

Dr. Arindam Chakraborty serves as the CTO of Engineering Consulting at VIAS3D and has more than 18 years of combined academic and industry consulting experience in the domain of simulation and engineering analysis. He has degrees in Civil (Bachelors), Aerospace (MTech.) and Mechanical (PhD) with focus on computational solid and structural mechanics, non-linear FEA, fatigue and fracture, reliability and optimization, and composite structures. His industry experience spans Oil & Gas, Nuclear, Process & Petrochemical, Consumer Packaged Goods, Life Science, Hi-Tech. and Industrial Equipment. He has been involved with consulting project management and leadership, business development, development of new technology and future growth strategy with a strong focus on public safety regulations (BSEE, NRC, FDA) and Digital Transformation. He has experience in automating complex engineering problems using codes in FORTRAN/C/C#/VBA/Java/Python/FOX Toolkit, including Abaqus automation scripts. Dr. Chakraborty has more than twenty-five conference and journal publications and many invited talks and panel discussions. He is also actively involved with many code (ASME, API) and international conferences committees. He is also a Dassault Systèmes Certified Training Instructor and taught University courses as invited lecturer.

Will has been with SIMULIA for nearly 25 years, in a variety of technical and sales roles. He has trained, supported, mentored and consulted with customers across many industries in Canada, the US and UK to help them address their simulation challenges and leverage the power of SIMULIA technology. Will holds Batchelor’s and Master’s degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Waterloo.

Dr. Hicham Farid has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Quebec, Canada, where his research focused on Fracture Mechanics. His primary interests are Material Modeling and Calibration, Fracture Mechanics, and Fatigue. Before joining Dassault Systèmes, Hicham spent 12 years working as R&D Engineer/Scientist at leading organizations in the aerospace, nuclear, and renewable energy industries.

Dinesh Panneerselvam is an Industry Process Consultant Director at Dassault Systèmes with the SIMULIA brand. He has been with the company for over 15 years and his background is structures with a Ph. D in Engineering Mechanics. Dinesh and his team in the technical sales organization lead technical execution of customer engagements starting from lead generation to opportunity qualification to successful implementation of simulation solutions with a focus on Hi-Tech, Aerospace & Defense and Electric Vehicle industries.