Faculty
Rob Stewart
Director of AGL
PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Chevron, ARCO, Veritas, University of Calgary
General Expertise: Borehole geophysics (well logging, VSP, crosswell analysis), multicomponent seismic methods, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)
Office: 131-C SR1
Phone: (713) 743-3081
Email: rrstewart@uh.edu
Faculty and Staff Collaborating on AGL Projects
John Castagna
PhD, University of Texas at Austin
General Expertise - Rock properties, seismic attributes, AVO
Evgeny Chesnokov
PhD, Moscow State University
University College of London, University of Oklahoma
General Expertise - Theoretical seismology, anisotropy, fracture monitoring
Fred Hilterman
PhD, Colorado School of Mines
Geophysical Development Corp., Mobil
General Expertise - AVO, seismic processing, petrophysics
Aibing Li
PhD, Brown University
Woods Hole Institute
General Expertise - Seismic tomography, inversion, crustal structure
William Sager
PhD, Marine Geophysics, University of Hawaii, Hawaii Institute of Geophysics, Texas A&M University
General Expertise - Marine geophysics, Plate tectonics, Paleomagnetism
Jiajia Sun
Ph.D. in Geophysics with minor in Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Colorado School of Mines, CO, USA
General Expertise - Inversion, Machine Learning, Signal Processing
Leon Thomsen
PhD, Columbia University
Amoco, BP, Delta Geophysics
General Expertise - Anisotropy, seismic processing, EM analysis
Robert Wiley
PhD, Colorado School of Mines
Marathon Oil
General Expertise - Physical modeling, instrumentation, shallow seismic analysis
Yingcai Zheng
PhD, University of California Santa Cruz
Postdoc, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
General Expertise - Global Seismology, and Seismic Wave Inversion
Hua-Wei Zhou
PhD, California Institute of Technology
General Expertise - Tomography, microseismic, migration
Technical and Administrative Staff
Nikolay Dyaur
PhD, Institute of Physics of the Earth
Russian Academy of Sciences
General Expertise - Rock Physics modeling, ultrasonic experiments
Students
Marwa Hussein
email: mahmedew@central.uh.edu
Research Interests: Application of multi-attribute analysis to reservoir characterization and time-lapse seismic studies
Afolabi Babalola
email:
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Jose Bustillos
email: josevbustillos@gmail.com
Research Interests: DAS, VSP, Fiber-Optic Sensing, Borehole Seismic
Suresh Dande
email: sdande85@gmail.com
Research Interests: 3D-printed rock models, fluid viscosity effect, Proppant, Rock Physics, Python, Microseismic
Ezzedeen Alfataierge
email: fataireo@outlook.com
Research Interests: : Fiber-Optic Sensing, DAS, FBGs, and VSP
Dissertation: FIBER-OPTIC MOTION SENSING: DISTRIBUTED ACOUSTIC SENSING, FIBER BRAGG-GRATINGS, AND THEIR LAND AND MARINE SEISMIC APPLICATIONS (2019)
Casey Kuo
email: ckuo15@uh.edu
Research Interests: Seismic data processing, earthquake seismology
Oyedoyin Oyetunji
email:
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Andrea Paris
email: agparisc@central.uh.edu
Research Interests: Quantitative Interpretation, Well Log Data Analysis, and 3C Seismic Data Analysis and Inversion
Alejandro Portas
email:
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Zohreh Souri
email: zgsouri@uh.edu
Research Interests: Borehole Seismic Imaging, DAS, and Rock Physics
Iris Haihong Wang
email: hwang48@uh.edu
Research Interests: : Multicomponent seismic, data analytics/data science, rockphysics, microseismic
Yin-Kai Wang
email: ywang171@uh.edu
Research Interests: Multicomponent seismic exploration, fiber-optic sensing
Yutai Wu
email: ywu60@uh.edu
Research Interests: Seismic Refraction, MASW, FOMS, FWI
Wenyuan Zhang
email: wzhang46@central.uh.edu
Research Interests: Quantitative seismic interpretation, seismic inversion (AVO, tomography, FWI), HPC and deep learning applications in processing, imaging, and interpretation