URS Research Team

Dr. Olufemi Olorode  is an Assistant Professor in the Craft & Hawkins Department of Petroleum Engineering at Louisiana State University (LSU). He has four years of experience in the oil and gas industry as a reservoir engineer at Afren Resources and has been in LSU since 2018. He specializes in unconventional resource modeling, fracture modeling, machine learning, and production forecasting for conventional and unconventional resources. He has authored several publications in the area of numerical modeling of unconventional oil and gasreservoirs. Dr. Olorode received the SPE Journal Outstanding Technical Editor Award in 2018 and serves as a technical reviewer for several journals, including SPE J, JPSE, Energy & Fuels, IEEE TRGS, Energies, etc. He holds MS and PhD degrees in Petroleum Engineering from Texas A&M University and a BS degree in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria.

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Harun Ur Rashid is a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the URS research group, and he specializes in the numerical modeling of fractured reservoirs. He holds a master's degree in mining engineering from the University of Nevada, Reno, and a bachelor's degree in petroleum and mining engineering from Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh. Harun possesses hands-on experience in modeling geothermal reservoirs, geomechanics, and fracture propagation, as well as experimental modeling of coupled Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical (THM) processes using state-of-the-art tools such as Autolab 1500. Harun has authored and co-authored numerous publications in reputable journals such as SPEJ, JPSE, and Scientific Reports. He has also actively contributed to the scientific community by providing peer review services for esteemed journals like Energies and the Journal of Computational Physics.

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Meisam Adibifard is a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the URS research group. Meisam has a strong background in petroleum and chemical engineering, with a Bachelor of Science degree in Petroleum Engineering, as well as two Master's degrees, one in Hydrocarbon Reservoirs from Sahand University of Technology and the other in Chemical Engineering from Mississippi State University. He has a track record of publications in various areas, including machine learning applications in reservoir characterization, computational fluid dynamics, and analytical modeling of fluid flow in porous media. Currently, Meisam is focused on utilizing large-scale molecular dynamics to study nonequilibrium dissociation of gas clathrates.

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Ahmed Abdullah is a Petroleum Engineering graduate from Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia, specializing in reservoir studies. With 3 years of experience in reservoir engineering, academic research, and data science, his current research focuses on experimental and numerical studies of coupled THM process.

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