Amol B Bakshi, PhD, is a Research Assistant Professor in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He manages the Integrated Asset Management project at the USC-Chevron Center of Excellence for Research and Academic Training on Interactive Smart Oilfield Technologies. Dr. Bakshi received his PhD in Computer Engineering and Masters in Electrical Engineering from USC in 2005 and 2002 respectively, and his Bachelors in Computer Science from BITS, Pilani (India) in 1997. His PhD research was on programming models for networked sensor systems. His current interests include semantic web technologies for information integration, smart oilfield technologies, model integrated computing, and domain specific languages.