Chaitanya Karale is a Senior Technical Advisor with Halliburton in Houston, Texas, working within the Production Enhancement Digital group. He holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering (2010) and brings extensive expertise across matrix acidizing design and optimization, multi-stage hydraulic fracturing design and analysis, completion cost optimization, DAS/DTS flow data analysis, surfactant imbibition modelling, screenout mitigation, and related production enhancement technologies.