Alumni

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Francois Alabert MS
AES 1985-1987
Current affiliation: Total S.A., Paris, France
Position: Head Reserves Development, West Africa
Email: francois.alabert@total.com
Thesis: Imaging Spatial Distributions with Hard and Soft Data

Alberto Sampaio de Almeida Ph.D
AES 1990-1993
Current affiliation: Petrobras Research Center - Rio de Ja neiro - Brasil
Position: Head of Reservoir Geology and Engineering Division
Email: asampaio@cenpes.petrobras.com.br
Thesis: Joint Simulation of Multiple Variables With a Markov-type Coregionalization Model.

Munseok, Baek, Ph.D
PE 93-99
Current affiliation: Korea Oil and Gas
Position: manager
Thesis: A hybrid streamtube simulator using a semi-analytical method.

Arjun Bathija MS
GES 1996-1998
Current affiliation: RC Squared
Position: Senior Research Consultant
Email: arjun@rc2.com
Thesis: Uncertainty evaluation and integration of dynamic data in reservoir characterization

Louis-Jerome Bortoli Msc
Current affiliation: BRLingenierie
Position: Project Director
Email: louis-jerome.bortoli@brl.fr
Thesis: Constraining reservoir modelling with 3D seismic data

Gilles Bourgault
Current affiliation: Reservoir Characterization Research and Consulting Inc.
Position: Senior Geostatistician
Email: gilles@rc2.com
Thesis:

Bruce E. Buxton Ph.D
AES 1980-1985
Current affiliation: Battelle Memorial Institute
Position: Senior Program Manager
Email: buxtonb@battelle.org
Thesis: Geostatistical Determination of the Precision of Global Recoverable Reserve Estimates

Yi-Ju Chien MSc
GES 1996-1998
Current affiliation: Pacific Northwest National Laboratories
Position: Research Scientist
Email: yi-ju.chien@pnl.gov
Thesis: A geostatistical approach to sampling design of contaminated site characterization

Alexandre J. Desbarats Ph.D
AES 1982-87
Current affiliation: Geological Survey of Canada
Position: Research Scientist
Email: desbarat@nrcan.gc.ca
Thesis: Stochastic modeling of flow in sand-shale sequences

Clayton V. Deutsch Ph.D
AES 1987-1992
Current affiliation: University of Alberta
Position: Professor
Email: cdeutsch@civil.ualberta.ca
Thesis: Annealing techniques applied to reservoir modeling and integration of geological and engineering (Well Test) data

Nicolas EBERLE MS
PE 1997-1998
Current affiliation: Schlumberger SRPC, Clamart, France
Position: Reservoir Engineer (Reservoir Monitoring and Interpretation)
Email: eberle@clamart.srpc.slb.com
Thesis: Geostatistical Estimation Algorithm calibrated on Training Images

Robert Edwards, MS
PE 91-94
Current affiliation: McKinsey and Co.
Thesis: Using production forecasting uncvertainty in the economic analysis of multiple producing oil and gas properties

J. Jaime Gomez-Hernandez Ph.D
AES 1987-1990
Current affiliation: Technical University of Valencia, Spain
Position: Professor
Email: jaime@dihma.upv.es
Thesis: A Stochastic Approach to the Simulation of Block Conductivity Fields Conditioned Upon Data Measured on a Smaller Scale

Pierre Goovaerts Postdoc
GES 1993-1994
Current affiliation: The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Position: Assistant professor
Email: goovaert@engin.umich.edu

Emmanuel Gringarten Ph.D
PE 1992-1997
Current affiliation: Paradigm, Houston
Position: Product manager
Email: gringarten@paradigmgeo.com
Thesis: Geometric Modeling of Fracture Networks

Edward Isaaks Ph.D
AES 1985-1991
Current affiliation: Self employed
Position: Geostatistical Consultant to the Mining Industry
Email: ed@isaaks.com
Thesis: The Application of Monte Carlo Methods to the Analysis of Spatially Correlated Data

Phaedon Kyriakidis Ph.D
GES 1998
Current affiliation: University of California at Santa Barbara
Position: Assistant Professor
Email: phaedon@geog.ucsb.edu
Thesis: Modeling spatio-temporal phenomena

I. Carina Lemmer Ph.D
AES 1980-1984
Current affiliation: Independent consultancy
Position: Consultant Geological and Geostatistical Services
Email: iclemmer@iafrica.comm
Thesis: The Mononodal Cutoff - Application to Robust Variography and Spatial Distribution Estimation

Shuguang Mao Ph.D
GES 1994-1999
Current affiliation: Salomon Smith Barney
Position: Analyst
Email: shuguang.mao@ssmb.com
Thesis: Multiple layer surface mapping with seismic data and well data

Kamal Malick, MS
PE 93-95
Current affiliation: Reservoir Management Ltd (RML)
Position: consultant reservoir engineer
Email: kamil_malik@hotmail.com
Thesis: boundary effects in the successive upscaling of absolute permeability

Ricardo Portella, Ph.D
PE 94-98
Current affiliation: Petrobras Research Center - Rio de Ja neiro - Brasil
Email: portella@correio.cenpes.petrobras.com.br
Thesis: Joint Simulation of Multiple Variables With a Markov-type Coregionalization Model.

Christopher J. Murray Ph.D
1988-1992
Current affiliation: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Position: Staff Scientist
Email: chris.murray@pnl.gov
Thesis: Geostatistical Applications in Petroleum Geology and Sedimentary Geology

Monica Tudor, MS
PE 93-95
Thesis: Well decline in fractured reservoirs with fractal geometry

Mario E. Rossi MSc
AES 1988-1990
Current affiliation: GeoSystems International
Position: President/Geostatistician
Email: mrossi@geosysint.com
Thesis: Impact of Spatial Clustering on Geostatistical Analysis

Neil A. Schofiel MSc
AES 1986-1988
Current affiliation: Hellman & Schofield Pty. Ltd.
Position: Joint Manager
Email: hellscho@hellscho.com.au
Thesis:The Porgera Gold Deposit, Papua New Guinea: A Geostatistical Study of Underground Ore Reserves.

Leonid E. Shmaryan MSc
PE 1995-1997
Current affiliation: Schlumberger Geoquest
Position: software engineer
Email: lshmaryan@houston.geoquest.slb.com
Thesis: Fast p-filed simulation with FFT

Amilcar Soares Ph.D
AES 1981
Current affiliation: IST, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
Position: Professor
Email: ncmrp@alfa.ist.utl.pt

Srinivasan Sanjay Ph.D
PE 1999
Current affiliation: University of Texas, Austin
Position: Assistant Professor
Email: ssriniva@mail.utexas.edu

Koichi Suzuki, Ph.D
PE 95-98
Current affiliation: Japan Oil Development Company
Thesis:Scale-up of relative permeabilities of isolated gridblocks accounting for boundary effects

Tom T. Tran Ph.D
PE 1991-1995
Current affiliation:Chevron Petroleum Technology Company
Position: Staff Research Scientist
Email: jtttr@chevron.com
Thesis:

Georges W. Verly Ph.D
AES 1980-1984
Current affiliation: Placer Dome in Vancouver, Canada
Position: Senior Geostatistician
Email: georges_verly@placerdome.com
Thesis: Estimation of Spatial Point and Block Spatial Distributions: The Multigaussian Model.

Wenlong Xu PhD
GES 1991-1995
Current affiliation:Unocal E&PT
Position: Senior Geophysicist
Email: wenlong.xu@unocal.com
Thesis:Stochastic Modeling of Reservoir Lithofacies and Petrophysical Properties

Tomomi Yamada, Ph.D
PE 92-95
Current affiliation: Japan Petroleum Exploration Co.
Email: yamada@prod.japex.co.jp
Thesis: A dissipation based coarse grid system and its application to the scale-up of two-phased systems

Tingting Yao Ph.D
GES 1994-1998
Current affiliation: ExxonMobil
Position: Senior Geostatistician
Email: tingting@pangea.stanford.edu
Thesis: Automatic covariance modeling and conditional spectral simulation with Fast Fourier Transform

Hua Zhu Ph.D
AES 1986-1991
Current affiliation: Shell E & P Technology Co.
Position: Sr.Research Mathematician
Email: zhu@shellus.com
Thesis: Modeling Mixture of Spatial Distributions with Integration of SoftData

Sebastian Strebelle Ph.D
GES 1998-2002
Current affiliation: Chevron Texaco, San Ramon, CA.
Position:
Email: stsb@chevron.com
Thesis: Modeling complex geometries using multiple-point statistics

Rakesh Kumar MS
PE 2001
Current affiliation: Shell, New Orleans.
Position: Reservoir Engineer
Email: rakesh.kumar@shell.com
Thesis: Modifications to the Streamline pseudofunction algorithm for 2-D to 1-D and 2-D to 2-D scale-up

Cristina Arroyo Garcia MS
PE 2001
Current affiliation: Shell, New Orleans.
Position: Reservoir Engineer
Email: cristina@stanfordalumni.org
Thesis: Automatic geobodies detection from seismic using minimum message length clustering

Li Chen MS
PE 2000
Current affiliation: Oracle Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA.
Position:
Email:
Thesis: Joint multiple-point statistics integration of seismic and well data

Chunrong Dong MS
PE 2002
Current affiliation: EE dept, Case Western Reserve University
Position: MS Student
Email: cxd55@cwru.edu
Thesis: Channel recognition using feature-based geostatistics: A submarine channel case study

Zhanjun Ying PhD
GES 2002
Current affiliation: Chevron Texaco, San Ramon.
Position:
Email: zhanjun@stanfordalumni.org
Thesis:

Yuhong Liu PhD
GES 2003
Current affiliation: Exxon Mobil, Houston, TX.
Position: Research Geologist
Email: yuhong@stanfordalumni.org /a>
Thesis: Downscaling Seismic Data into Geologically Sound Numerical Model

Ying Xu MS
PE 2003
Current affiliation:
Position:
Email: bxymay@gmail.com
Thesis: Detecting fluid-included lithofacies from seismic amplitude by usinf rock physics and Minimum Message Length clustering

Rami Younis MS
PE 2002
Current affiliation: SCCM, Stanford U.
Position: PhD Student
Email: ryounis@stanford.edu
Thesis: A method for static-based reservoir-model up-gridding

Anuar Bitanov MS
PE 2003
Current affiliation: Agip Kazakhstan North Caspian Operating Company NV (AGIP KCO)
Position: Petroleum Engineer
Email: a.bitanov@agipkco.com
Thesis: Uncertainty in net-to-gross in early reservoir development

Junrae Kim MS
PE 2003
Current affiliation: Credit Suisse First Boston , Seoul
Position: Research Analyst
Email: jrkim@stanfordalumni.org
Thesis: History matching by joint perturbation of facies distribution and net-to-gross

Ozgur Karacali MS
PE 2004
Current affiliation: Risk Management Solutions
Position: Engineer
Email: karacali@stanfordalumni.org
Thesis: Optimizing Gridding Parameters in a Parallel Multiscale Reservoir Characterization Approach

Melton Hows MS
PE 2004
Current affiliation: Schlumberger, Libya
Position: Engineer
Email: mhows@stanfordalumni.org

Guven Burc Arpat Ph.D
PE 2000-2004
Current affiliation: Earth Decision Sciences, Houston
Position: Developer
Email: burch@burcarpat.com
Thesis: Sequential Simulation with Patterns

Sunderrajan Krishnan Ph.D
GES 1999-2004
Current affiliation: International water management institute, Anand, India
Position: Post doctoral researcher
Email: sunderk@stanfordalumni.org
Thesis: Combining diverse and partially redundant information in the earth sciences

Nicolas Henri Remy Ph.D
GES 2004
Current affiliation: Yahoo
Position: statistical analyst
Email: nremy@yahoo-inc.com
Thesis: Algorithmic and software methods for a better integration of the geological information into numerical models

Joe Voelker Ph.D
PE 2004
Current affiliation: Pearl Oil (Thailand)
Position: Engineer
Email: joevoelker@hotmail.com
Thesis: Reservoir Characterization of Arab-D Super-k as a Discrete Fracture Network Flow System, Ghawar Field, Saudi Arabia.

Omer Inanc Tureyen Ph.D
PE 2005
Current affiliation: Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
Position: Research assistant
Email: inanct@itu.edu.tr
Thesis: A Parallel Modelling Approach To Reservoir Characterization

Izzet Arslan MS
GES 2005
Current affiliation: Turkish Petroleum Corp., Turkey
Position: Engineer
Email: iarslan@stanfordalumni.org
Thesis: Structural Model Selection

Todd Hoffman Ph.D
PE 2005
Current affiliation: Montana Tech
Position: Assistant Professor
Email: thoffman@mtech.edu
Thesis: Geologically Consistent History Matching while Perturbing Facies

Tuanfeng Zhang Ph.D
GES 2006
Current affiliation: Schlumberger Doll Research
Position: Senior Geologist
Email: tzhang2@boston.oilfield.slb.com
Thesis: Filter-based Training Pattern Classification for Spatial Pattern Simulation

Jianbing Wu Ph.D
PE 2007
Current affiliation: ConocoPhillips, Houston
Position: Applied Reservoir Engineer
Email: jbwu@stanfordalumni.org
Thesis: 4D Seismic and Multiple-point Pattern Data Integration Using Geostatistics

Yongshe Liu Ph.D
PE 2007
Current affiliation: ConocoPhillips, Houston
Position: Geoscientist
Email: ysliu@stanfordalumni.org
Thesis: Geostatistical Integration of Linear Coarse Scale and Fine Scale Data

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