Fahad Ahmad, Data Science Leader at Halliburton, is the winner of the Data Scientist of the Year award for leading the company to successfully adopt a data mesh architecture. Fahad led the transformation of Halliburton’s data landscape by implementing Starburst data products and leveraging natural language processing with Gen AI. As a result, Halliburton achieved a significant reduction in query response times, from weeks to mere seconds, enabling real-time data-driven decision-making. Through the decentralized data management approach, Fahad broke down barriers and empowered users across 13 business lines to access and analyze data in real-time.