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	Chen Research Group
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	MERS Research Group
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	Sharma Research Group
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