Faculty
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Mohamed Soliman Professor and Department Chair Email: mysoliman [at] uh [dot] edu M. Y. Soliman is Department Chair and the William C. Miller endowed chair professor. PhD from Stanford University in 1979. He is a distinguished member of SPE and a licensed professional engineer by the State of Texas. He is also a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). He has... |
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S.M. Farouq Ali Distinguished Professor; Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University Email: sfarouqa [at] central [dot] uh [dot] edu Farouq Ali comes to UH from the University of Calgary where he served as the Encana/Petroleum Society Chair and Professor of chemical and petroleum engineering. He has over 40 years of experience in industry and academia, having served as a professor at Pennsylvania State University, the... |
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Christine Ehlig-Economides Professor and Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished University Chair; Ph.D., Stanford University. Email: ceconomides [at] uh [dot] edu Member of the National Academy of Engineering, recipient of SPE Anthony F. Lucas Gold Medal, Distinguished Achievement Award for Petroleum Engineering Faculty, and Lester C. Uren, Innovative Teaching, and Formation Evaluation Awards. Co-author of Petroleum Production Systems. Member of the... |
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Lori Hathon Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Missouri. Email: lahathon [at] uh [dot] edu Hathon was senior research geologist for Shell International E & P, Inc. before she joined the UH Cullen College faculty. For more than two decades, her work has focused on routine and special core analysis, clastic petrology, reservoir quality analysis and predictive modeling,... |
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Dimitrios Georgios Hatzignatiou Professor; Ph.D., University of Tulsa Phone: 713-743-9172 Email: dghatzignatiou [at] uh [dot] edu |
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Shah Kabir Lecturer; M.S., University of Calgary Email: ckabir [at] uh [dot] edu Kabir teaches the graduate course Reserves Estimation and the undergraduate Capstone I and II classes. An Honorary Member of the SPE, he has had 40 years of industry experience and published over 140 papers. He coauthored the 2nd edition of the SPE book, Fluid Flow... |
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Konstantinos Kostarelos Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin. Email: kkostarelos [at] uh [dot] edu Dr. Kostarelos earned his PhD at the University of Texas at Austin, working on an inter-disciplinary team that adapted several petroleum industry technologies for environmental applications with Gary Pope’s group. While there, he lead a research effort on a new concept called “Neutral Buoyancy... |
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Kyung Jae Lee Assistant Professor; Ph.D. Texas A&M University Email: kjlee6 [at] central [dot] uh [dot] edu Modeling and Simulation of Porous Media |
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Michael T. Myers Associate Professor and Ali Daneshy Endowed College Professor of Petroleum Engineering; Ph.D., University of Michigan. Email: mtmyers [at] central [dot] uh [dot] edu Dr. Myers has twenty five years research experience in rock and fluid properties at Shell International Exploration and Production. He served as an Adjunct Faculty at UH before joining the department full time. His research areas of interest include static and dynamic properties of porous... |
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Guan Qin Associate Professor and Gulf Coast Section of the Society of Petroleum Engineers Endowed College Professor in Petroleum Engineering; Ph.D., University of Wyoming Email: gqin2 [at] central [dot] uh [dot] edu |
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Ahmad Sakhaee-Pour Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin Email: asakhaee [at] central [dot] uh [dot] edu Google Scholar, NanoGeo |
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Ganesh Thakur Distinguished Professor of Petroleum Engineering and Director of UH Energy Industrial Partnerships; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University Email: gcthakur [at] uh [dot] edu Energy Industry Partnerships (EiP) WebsiteMember of the National Academy of Engineering;
2012 SPE International President;
Former Vice President, Global Advisor and Fellow – Chevron Energy Technology Co. (37 years in various positions);
SPE Board of Director – Reservoir Characterization and Dynamics;
Chief Petroleum Engineer/... |
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George K. Wong Associate Professor; Ph.D., Stanford University Phone: 713-743-8790 Email: gwong3 [at] uh [dot] edu Dr. Wong was the Production Engineering Advisor and Principal Technical Expert in Sand Control and Sand Management at Shell E... |