MUHAMMAD ARIF BIN FAZIL · BORN PENANG 1990
Geologist. 13 years finding oil under the sea. Builder of AI systems that tell the truth.
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Education: University of Wisconsin–Madison (Geology & Geophysics + Economics)
Contact: [email protected]
Four wells led. Four flowed. Parallel work on arifOS — applying field discipline to AI governance. BEKANTAN-1 — shallowest flowing oil discovery, Malay Basin.
Owning prospect recommendations from concept to drilling decision. Basin analysis across mature and frontier plays. First well led and flowed.
Seismic interpretation, prospect evaluation, and basin modelling across the Malay Basin. Learning that most easy oil was found decades ago — what remains requires better thinking.
Fresh graduate. First posting. Learning to read seismic data — patterns in reflected sound waves mapping geology thousands of metres underground.
Constitutional AI governance kernel. 13 floors enforcing truth, reversibility, and bounded action. Open source on PyPI.
Geological intelligence platform. Macrostrat integration, seismic interpretation, basin analysis tools.
Civic journalism in Bahasa Makcik. 30 articles on Malaysian sovereignty, resources, and accountability.
40 essays on AI governance, institutions, and the path to AGI. Constitutional reading room.