Randy Hazlett, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Petroleum Engineering
- Research Interests: unconventional reservoirs, discrete well modeling, pressure and rate transient analysis, multiphase flow in porous media, productivity modeling of complex wells, production from complex fracture systems, flow in fractures, computational fluid dynamics applications in reservoir engineering, Lattice Boltzmann methods for petroleum engineering, enhanced oil recovery
- Teaching Interests: reservoir engineering, production engineering, rock and fluid properties, enhanced oil recovery
Mohan Kelkar, Ph.D., J.D.
Professor Emeritus of Petroleum Engineering
- Research Interests: integrated reservoir modeling, liquid loading
- Teaching Interests: petroleum economics and property evaluation, unconventional resources, geostatistics, integrated reservoir modeling
Jun Lu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Petroleum Engineering
Stefan Miska, Ph.D.
Jonathan B. Detwiler Professor of Petroleum Engineering
- Research Interests: drilling hydraulics, drillstring, tubing and casing mechanics, drilling optimization, geomechanics
- Teaching Interests: drilling, well completions, geomechanics
Mustafa Onur, Ph.D.
Chair and McMan Professor of Petroleum Engineering
- Research Interests: pressure transient (well test) analysis, wireline formation testers, reservoir engineering methods, reservoir simulation and modeling, assisted history matching, nonlinear parameter optimization, naturally fractured reservoirs, EOR methods, geothermal reservoir engineering, unconventional oil and gas reservoirs
- Teaching Interests: well test analysis, reservoir engineering, rock properties, reservoir modeling and simulation, computer applications in petroleum engineering
Mauricio Prado, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Petroleum Engineering
- Research Interests: artificial lift, dewatering and boosting, multiphase flow, production optimization, dynamic of multiphase flow in pipes
- Teaching Interests: production engineering and artificial lift, fluid and rock properties, multiphase flow
Ovadia Shoham, Ph.D.
Floyd M. Stevenson Distinguished Professor of Petroleum Engineering
- Research Interests: production, transportation and separation of multiphase flow, two phase flow modeling
- Teaching Interests: production engineering, two phase flow modeling
Rami Younis, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Petroleum Engineering
- Research Interests: numerical reservoir simulation, software design paradigms, nonlinear and linear solvers, discretization of coupled flow and transport, geomechanics in fractured porous media, applications of simulation in unconventional reservoirs and EOR
- Teaching Interests: advanced reservoir engineering, reservoir simulation, geostatistics, well test analysis, high performance computing
Mengjiao Yu, Ph.D.
Professor of Petroleum Engineering
- Research Interests: drilling and well completion, drilling fluids, fluid rheology and hydraulics, wellbore stability, shale and shale stability, cuttings transport, UBD/MPD, drillstring mechanics, downhole and surface measurement, drilling automations, large scale engineering simulations
- Teaching Interests: drilling engineering, drilling fluids, math modeling in drilling engineering, engineering programming
Hong-Quan Zhang, Ph.D.
Williams Professor of Petroleum Engineering
- Research Interests: artificial lift, multiphase flow in wells and pipelines, heat and mass transfer, computational fluid dynamics, heavy oil and emulsion rheology, oil and gas production, flow assurance
- Teaching Interests: production engineering, advanced production design, transient multiphase production design, multiphase flow modeling, artificial lift, flow assurance
Albert Reynolds, Ph.D.
Research Professor of Petroleum Engineering and Mathematics
- Research Interests: assisted history matching, waterflooding, optimization, closed-loop reservoir management, uncertainty quantification, optimal well placement and control, data-driven models for prediction and control reservoir simulation, multiphase flow well testing
- Teaching Interests: reservoir engineering, reservoir simulation, optimization, well testing, inverse problems, closed-loop reservoir management
Evren Ozbayoglu, Ph.D.
Executive Director of TUDRP, Wellspring Associate Professor of Petroleum Engineering
- Research Interests: drilling engineering, fluid and solid mechanics, directional horizontal drilling, cuttings transport, fluid characterization, hydraulics
- Teaching Interests: drilling engineering
Eduardo Pereyra, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Petroleum Engineering
- Research Interests: multiphase flow, flow assurance, gas well deliquification, artificial lift, multiphase flow metering, separation technologies, uncertainty analysis
- Teaching Interests: flow assurance, two-phase flow modeling, oil and gas production, artificial lift, petroleum economics, surface production facilities, transient two-phase flow
Cem Sarica, Ph.D.
Director of TUHWALP, F.H. “Mick” Merelli/Cimarex Professor of Petroleum Engineering
- Research Interests: production engineering, multiphase flow in pipes, flow assurance, horizontal wells
- Teaching Interests: production engineering, multiphase flow, flow assurance
Daniel Crunkleton, Ph.D., J.D.
Professor of Chemical Engineering
- Research Interests: process modeling and simulation, computational fluid dynamics, alternative energy/biofuels
- Teaching Interests: thermodynamics, heat transfer, fluid dynamics, alternative energy, transport phenomena
Todd Otanicar, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
- Research Interests: heat transfer, nanoparticles, optics, solar energy, building energy
- Teaching Interests: heat transfer, thermodynamics, alternative energy, heating and refrigeration, building systems
Parameswar Hari, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Physics
- Research Interests: solar cells, nanotechnology, condensed matter physics, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)
- Teaching Interests: solid state physics, nanoscience, math methods
Hema Ramsurn, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
- Research Interests: supercritical fluids, biofuels, bio-based value-added products and their applications, graphene, gas to liquid conversions
- Teaching Interests: thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, chemical engineering principles, renewable energy, health and safety, reaction engineering
Dale Teeters, Ph.D.
Chair and Professor of Chemistry
- Research Interests: nanochemistry and materials chemistry as they apply to battery electrode and electrolyte materials
- Teaching Interests: general chemistry, physical chemistry, polymer chemistry, materials chemistry, nanochemistry
Ty Johannes, Ph.D.
Wellspring Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
- Research Interests: directed evolution, synthetic biology, algae biofuels
- Teaching Interests: chemical reactor design, biochemical engineering, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, heat transfer
Kenneth Roberts, Ph.D.
Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Research Interests: spectroscopy, nanomaterials, environmental, solar energy
- Teaching Interests: analytical, environmental chemistry, chemical separations
Gabriel LeBlanc, Ph.D.
Wellspring Assistant Professor of Chemistry
- Research Interests: electrochemistry, 3D printing, materials chemistry, alternative energy
- Teaching Interests: analytical chemistry, electrochemistry
John Hale, Ph.D.
Tandy Professor of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
- Research Interests: computational biology, bioinformatics, neuroinformatics, medical informatics, information security, high-performance computing, formal methods, digital humanities, social computing
- Teaching Interests: computer architecture, information security, high-performance computing, computational biology, neuroinformatics, medical informatics, enterprise computing
Mauricio Papa, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Computer Science
- Research Interests: network security, distributed process control, network intrusion detection, protocol analysis
- Teaching Interests: operating systems, computer networks, network security, computer graphics, cyber physical systems, critical infrastructure protection
Michael Keller, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
- Research Interests: synthesis and characterization of multi-functional materials, experimental mechanics of complex synthetic and biological materials
- Teaching Interests: mechanics, materials science, instrumentation, experimental techniques, composite materials
Tim Coburn, Ph.D.
Professor of Energy
- Research Interests: Statistical estimation of remaining unconventional oil and gas resources, energy analytics and data management, energy applications of quantitative decision making, infrastructure and asset management in the energy space, energy logistics and transportation issues, energy risk modeling, improving or developing methods for estimating remaining oil and gas resources in unconventional plays
- Teaching Interests: analytics and data management, quantitative decision analysis, management of energy operations, logistics and supply chain, asset management, risk modeling, energy policy and economics
Rob Moore, M.B.A.
Applied Assistant Professor of Energy Business
- Research Interests: energy capital efficiency, upstream operations and management
- Teaching Interests: supply chain management, finance, statistics, economics, deal-making, upstream operations & engineering
Linda Nichols, Ph.D.
Director, School of Energy Economics, Policy and Commerce and Charles Funai Professor of Energy
- Research Interests: energy accounting and financial reporting, international accounting and financial reporting
- Teaching Interests: U.S. and international upstream energy accounting, financial reporting; international accounting
Buford Pollett, J.D.
Genave King Rogers Assistant Professor of Energy Law
- Research Interests: corporate decision analysis, legal and regulatory aspects of oil/gas well facilities abandonment and decommissioning in onshore and offshore production environments, maritime energy law, legal and financial transactions in international energy commerce
- Teaching Interests: energy tansactions, regulations and compliance, maritime and Shipping Insurance, real property, oil and gas law, perspectives on energy business
Ron Ripple, Ph.D.
Mervin Bovaird Professor of Energy Business
- Research Interests: economics of crude oil and natural gas markets, energy commodities financial derivatives markets, relationship between energy consumption and income
- Teaching Interests: energy business, energy markets, energy finance, energy derivatives markets
Tom Seng, M.B.A.
Applied Assistant Professor of Energy Business
- Research Interests: energy markets and commodities risk
- Teaching Interests: supply chain management, energy commodities markets, global oil and gas industry, power industry, petroleum refining and petrochemical industries, current issues in energy management, energy risk and hedging
Robert A. Butkin, J.D.
Professor of Law, SERL Director, Energy Law Journal
- Research Interests: For six years, Professor Butkin has served as an appointee of the Governor of Oklahoma to the Oklahoma delegation of the Uniform Law Commission.
- Teaching Interests: contracts, state and federal administrative law, commercial law, particularly selling and leasing of goods and secured transactions
Warigia Bowman, Ph.D., J.D.
Assistant Professor of Law
- Research Interests: energy policy and natural resources
- Teaching Interests: administrative law, water law
Melissa J. Luttrell, J.D.
Assistant Professor of Law
- Research Interests: The appropriate use of microeconomic principles in legal decisions that relate to environmental and public health risk regulation; the ways decision makers actually use available evidence, in the absence of perfect information; and the integration of idealistic notions of what protective environmental and public health laws can and should do with the pragmatic realities of the world that actually exists.
- Teaching Interests: environmental law, climate change and property
Judith V. Royster, J.D.
Professor of Law
- Research Interests: American Indian law, with a concentration on issues of water rights and mineral and energy development
- Teaching Interests: administrative law, civil procedure, legislation, federal Indian law, Native American natural resources law, an on-line master’s class in Indian property rights
Rex J. Zedalis, L.L.M., J.D.
Professor of Law
- Research Interests: His most recent research interests have focused on aspects of Iraqi oil and gas law, but have included international economic law, arms control, and self-defense.
- Teaching Interests: international energy, international trade law, property law and associated courses such as land use controls, and financing land transactions
