• Raj Kiran, PhD
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    Dr. Kiran is an Assistant Professor in Petroleum Engineering Department at Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines). Prior to that, he has worked as postdoctoral research associate at the University of Oklahoma under supervision of Dr. Saeed Salehi. His current research interests focus on the areas of well integrity, multiphase flow, reservoir geomechanics, data science, and human factors in oil and Gas . He has also significant experience in computation fluid dynamics, finite element analysis, machine learning. He has vast experience of software development using languages such as C++, C, Python,Matlab; and simulation in several softwares such as ANSYS, ABAQUS, PETREL, OLGA,and PipeSim. He has authored several peer-reviewed journal papers and presented at national and international conferences. He has been working as a Guest Editor and Technical Reviewer for many Journals.

  • Mentors

    Saeed Salehi, PhD
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    Dr. Saeed Salehi is a researcher with more than 15 years academic and industry experience. He has managed research project for Department of Energy (DOE), DOI Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enhancement, NSF (National Science Foundation), NAS (National Academy of Sciences) and several private entities as major operators and service companies. He has previous industrial experience working as drilling engineer and research experience in area of drilling, well control, near wellbore geomechanics, well completion and well construction. He previously worked on well construction design projects for the wells drilled in GOM OCS and in deep-water Mississippi Canyon. He has published more than hundred articles from which more than 50 are peer-reviewed. He has published numerous technical papers on different venues such as SPE (Society of Petroleum Engineers), AADE (American Association of Drilling Engineers), ARMA (American Rock Mechanics Association), and ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers). He is currently serving as associate editor for Elsevier Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering in addition to being technical reviewer for numerous other Journals such as SPE Journals, ASME Journal of Energy Resources and Elsevier Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering. His recent leadership role includes serving as Chairman of SPE Evangeline section, Chairman of Finance for SPE Formation Damage Conference and being involved as SPE officer with Oklahoma City section.

  • Catalin Teodoriu
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    Dr. Catalin Teodoriu is Associate Professor at The University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma. He has more than 15 years of experience in the petroleum industry and academia, with key qualifications and research in drilling and production equipment, drilling technology, integrated computer aided analysis, well completion, testing of OCTG, design of downhole and surface equipment, software development, EOR and geothermal wells, and in the design of laboratory specific equipment (i.e. high pressure testing, large scale testing equipment for multiphase flow and drilling process simulation). He is specialized in developing new threaded connections for OCTG as well as expert on drilling problems and failure analysis. At OU he is building a unique testing facility for threaded connections and OCTG under complex loads.

  • Dr. Edward Cokely
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    Dr. Cokely, serves as Presidential Research Professor and Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Oklahoma, and is co-founding faculty of the National Institute for Risk & Resilience. Dr. Cokely is recognized as one of the world’s foremost experts in the Psychology of Skilled Decision Making, with specialization in risk communication and inclusive decision support.

  • Dr. Ziho Kang<
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    Dr. Kang's background is in human factors and human-integrated systems engineering, and his specialty is in developing algorithms to characterize eye tracking data to evaluate human performance and investigate cognitive processes. His overarching interest is to investigate human decision making processes in order to understand human behavior and to inform the design of complex systems and construct alerting and assistive learning technologies. He previously worked at Samsung and has performed research for National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA). Dr. Kang is currently corroborating with Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration (NOAA).

    • Collaborators

  • Dr. Chinedum Ezeakacha
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    Dr. Ezeakacha is an instructor in Petroleum Engineering Department at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. His current research interests are in the areas of Drilling Engineering, Drilling Fluid Optimization, Wellbore Strengthening, Design of Experiments, and Data Analysis.

  • Dr. Harsh Patel
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    Harsh is currently working as Subsea Digitalization Engineer at McDermott Internation Inc. His current research interests focus on the areas of computational engineering, automation, data science, and digital transformation.