Research Groups


 

Group Name Focus Area(s) Principal Investigator(s) Website
Managed Pressure Drilling (MPD) Research Group Drilling and Completions; Well Control Mauricio Almeida Coming soon
Barbosa Research Group Decarbonization of Energy Systems; Flow Assurance; Wellbore Integrity  Jader Barbosa Coming soon
Chen Research Group

Energy; CCUS; Geothermal; AI; Well Construction; Environmental; Advanced Computation

Yuanhang Chen Coming soon

Geofluids Modeling Group (GMG)

Fluid and Heat Flow; Reactive Transport: Subsurface Storage: H2, CO2, Geothermal; Critical Minerals: Li; Barrier Integrity: Cement, Caprock; Gas Hydrates  Ipsita Gupta Geofluids Modeling Group
Hughes Research Group

CO2 EOR and Carbon Sequestration; Multiphase Flow in Porous & Fractured Media; Geothermal; Reservoir Surveillance; Production Data Analysis; Unconventional 

Richard Hughes Coming soon
Complex Fluid Research Group

Multi-component and Multi-phase System in Energy Industry

Seung Kam Coming soon
Multiscale Energy Resource Simulation (MERS) Group

Multiscale Fractured Rocks; Molecular Dynamics; Deep Learning; Geomechanics; Mixed Reality

Olufemi Olorode Coming soon
Thermal- & Gas-Injection EOR & Rock-Fluids Interactions (TG-EOR & RFI) group

EOR; Gas-Assisted Gravity Drainage; CCUS

Dandina Rao Coming soon
Sharma Research Group

Sensors; Enhanced Oil Recovery; Machine Learning; Fiber Optic Sensing

Jyotsna Sharma Coming soon
Enhanced Oil Recovery in Unconventional and Conventional Reservoirs

Surfactant/Gas EOR in Unconventional Reservoirs; CO2 EOR/CCS; Reservoir Simulation

David Schechter Coming soon
PoreSim Research Group

Flow and Reaction in Porous Media. Focus Areas: Energy; Environment; Materials; Advanced Computing

Karsten Thompson Coming soon
Tyagi Research Group

 

Mayank Tyagi Coming soon
Fluid Flow & Reservoir Characterization

Energy; CO2/Hydrogen/Gas Storage; Subsurface Characterization & Modeling

Mehdi Zeidouni Coming soon