Jul 01, 2024  
2024-2025 Graduate Catalog (Catalog goes into effect at the start of the Fall 2024 semester) 
    
2024-2025 Graduate Catalog (Catalog goes into effect at the start of the Fall 2024 semester)

Petroleum Engineering Faculty


R. Chokshi. Adjunct Faculty. PhD, The University of Tulsa: Artificial Lift and multi-phase flow optimization.
B. Dindoruk. Faculty. PhD, Stanford University: Enhanced oil recovery, reservoir recovery mechanism,
hydrocarbon fluid properties and phase equilibria and reservoir engineering.
C. Ehlig-Economides. Professor and Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished University Chair.
PhD, Stanford University: Reservoir engineering, pressure transient analysis, integrated reservoir
characterization, complex well design, and production enhancement.
S. Farouq-Ali. Professor. PhD, Pennsylvania State University: Thermal Recovery.
R. Gonzales. Adjunct Faculty. PhD, Universidad Central de Venezuela: Reservoir Characterization,
Risk Analysis and Data Science.
L. A. Hathon. Assistant Professor. PhD, University of Missouri: Formation evaluation,
rock properties - conventional and unconventional reservoirs.
D. G. Hatzignatiou. Professor, PhD, University of Tulsa: Reservoir engineering.
R. Hollo. Adjunct Faculty. PhD, University of Texas at Austin: Petroleum economics and energy markets.
K. Lee. Assistant Professor. PhD, Texas A&M University: Fluid and heat flow in porous/fractured media,
reservoir simulation, unconventional resources.
M. Marongui-Porcu. Adjunct Faculty. PhD, Texas A&M University: Production Engineering.
M. Myers. Associate Professor and Ali Daneshy Endowed College Professor of Petroleum Engineering.
PhD, University of Michigan: Formation evaluation, rock properties, geomechanics, petrophysics,
and Ali Daneshy Endowed College Professor of Petroleum Engineering.
G. Qin. Associate Professor and Society of Petroleum Engineers Gulf Coast Section Endowed College
Professor of Petroleum Engineering. PhD: University of Wyoming: Reservoir simulations.
D. C. Rietz. Adjunct Faculty. MS, University of Houston: Numerical reservoir simulation.
A. Sakhae Pour. Assistant Professor. PhD, University of Texas at Austin: Pore-scale processes, 
Petrophysics ,Geomechanics, Unconventional resources.
R. Samuel. Adjunct Faculty. PhD, University of Tulsa: Drilling engineering, well engineering,
drilling optimization, complex well architecture.
M. Soliman. Professor and William C. Miller Endowed Chair Professor. PhD, Stanford University:
Well test analysis, diagnostic testing, fracturing and numerical simulation.
G.Thakur. Professor and Director of UH Energy Industrial Partnerships. PhD, Pennsylvania State University:
 Reservoir characterization and dynamics.
G. Wong. Associate Professor. PhD, Stanford University: Well completion, sand failure
prediction/quantification, production engineering, fracture mechanics, geomechanics.