Faculty

The faculty leading this IAP are uniquely capable to address these challenges, given our strong knowledge concerning geology, geophysics, geomechanics, drilling and completions, reservoir engineering, formation evaluation, geostatistics, reservoir modeling, data analytics and machine learning.


Student Researchers

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Wendi Liu (3nd Year PhD)
Data analytics, geostatistics and machine learning for unconventional reservoirs including feature engineering, anomality detection and spatiotemporal geostatistical and machine learning accounting for sampling bias.
Supervisor: Dr. Pyrcz

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Jose Salazar (3nd Year PhD) 
Data analytics, geostatistics and machine learning for unconventional reservoirs including geostatistical significance and robust trend models.
Supervisor: Drs. Lake and Pyrcz


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Javier Santos (3rd Year PhD)
Multiscale spatial modeling with data analytics and machine learning, new methods to integrate physics and fast surrogate models.
Supervisors: Drs. Prodanovic and Pyrcz

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Honggeun Jo (4th Year PhD)
Geostatistical and machine learning for heterogeneity modeling, including realistic training models and conditional machine learning-based models.
Supervisor: Dr. Pyrcz


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Wen Pan (4th Year PhD)
Machine learning for realistic subsurface models integrating petrophysical and geophysical data. 
Supervisors: Drs. Torres-Verdin and Pyrcz 

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John D’Angelo (4th Year PhD)
Multi-objective geosteering through integration of directional drilling and geophysical data".
Supervisor: Dr. van Oort
Currently funded by RAPID consortium (PI: Prof. Eric van Oort). As DIRECT grows, will be supported by DIRECT.


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Eduardo Maldonado (2nd Year PhD)
Generalizable machine learning-based surrogate models for flow forecasting.
Supervisor: Dr. Pyrcz

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Akhil Potla (1st Year MSc) 
Integration of engineering physics into machine learning-based flow forecasts. Initial work with capacitance resistance modeling. 
Supervisor: Dr. Foster


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Midé Mabadeje (2nd Year PhD)
Novel data analytics and machine learning workflows to address various sources of bias that impact decision-making.
Supervisor: Dr. Pyrcz

 

Jose Hernandez (2nd Year PhD)
Data analytics, geostatistics and machine learning for unconventional reservoirs including physics constrained dynamic time warping
Supervisor: Dr. Pyrcz