Name
From Raw Signals to Rig Intelligence: AI Without the Labelling Bottleneck
Date & Time
Wednesday, November 25, 2026, 12:20 PM - 12:35 PM
Vahid Golkar
Description
  • Turning unlabelled rig sensor data into actionable intelligence – using AI to extract meaningful patterns from raw IoT signals without the need for costly, time-consuming labelling projects.  

  • From sensor signals to crew-activity models – combining domain expertise with AI and coding agents to identify and understand activity patterns across drilling operations.  

  • Keeping AI honest without labelled data – exploring a human-in-the-loop autoresearch approach that uses engineering knowledge to guide research, validate emerging patterns and avoid misleading machine-learning outputs.  

  • Making future labelling faster and cheaper – using AI-generated clusters to structure the data and create a foundation for targeted labelling and more scalable machine learning.  

  • Unlocking new operational insights from the rig – demonstrating how unlabelled sensor data can evolve into crew-activity intelligence and support better understanding of drilling performance.