BEHNAM JAFARPOUR

Assistant Professor

W.F. & Marilyn Albers Family Faculty Fellow

Department of Petroleum Engineering Phone: 979-***-****

Texas A&M University Fax: 979-***-****

College Station, TX 77843 Email: abo6rq@r.postjobfree.com

RESEARCH INTERESTS

The general theme of my research is centered around understanding, modeling, characteriza-

tion, and management of subsurface energy resources and environmental systems. My current

research focus is on application of signal processing, estimation, and control theory in

stochastic

description of geologic heterogeneity, prediction of flow and transport behavior, and

efficient

development of subsurface environmental and energy resources. The current research

projects

in my group include feature-based estimation techniques that respect natural geologic

conti-

nuity, sparse reconstruction and pattern identification methods for subsurface

characterization,

large-scaledataassimilation andparameterestimation methodsunder uncertain priorstructural

continuity models, effective imagingalgorithmsforcharacterization ofhydrocarbon,

geothermal,

storagereservoirs,andmodel-reducedsubsurfacedescription,identification,andcontrol andCO

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for optimal design and development of underground resources.

EDUCATION

Ph.D.,Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Civil and Environmental Eng. 02/2008

Dissertation

Behnam Jafarpour/Curriculum Vitae

: Mathematical Modeling of 2-4-DNT Reduction with Pure and Cast Iron

: Estimating Channel Features in Geologi cal Media Using Sparsity Constraints

: Oil reservoir characterization u sing ensemble data assimilation

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Stanford University

) (first year completed at Sharif University s Environmental Eng. department

(concurrently with the Ph.D. program )

(visiting student at Stanford University s Energy Resources Eng. in Winter 2005)

Graduate Research Assistant, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Eng. 09/2001-09/2003

M.S.,, Electrical Eng. & Computer Science 02/2008 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

B.S., Tehran University, Civil Engineering 1999

M.S., University of Delaware, Civil and Environmental Engineering 06/2003

University of Delaware

Thesis

Thesis

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE,

Dept. of Petroleum Eng.11/2007-presentW.F. & Marilyn Albers Family AssistantProfessor

Texas A&M UniversityGraduate Research Assistant, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Eng. 09/2003-11/2007

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyGraduate Research Assistant, Dept. of Electrical Eng. 09/2006-11/2007

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Visiting Student, Energy Resources Eng. 01/2005-05/2005

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Affiliations

Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE); American Geophysical Union (AGU); Society of Ex-

ploration Geophysics (SEG); Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE);

Society

for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM); International Association of

Hydrogeologists

(IAH); European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE); International

Association

of Mathematical Geology (IAMG).

Professional Services

Journals:

SPE Journal (Associate Editor ); Computational Geosciences (Technical Reviewer ); SPE

Reser-

voir Evaluation and Engineering (Technical Reviewer ); SPE Journal (Technical Reviewer );

Ad-

vances in Water Resources (Technical Reviewer ); Mathematical Geosciences (Technical Re-

viewer ); Geophysics (Technical Reviewer ); Computational Physics (Technical Reviewer );

Conference & Meeting Organization :

Technical Committee, Geology and Geophysics, SPE-ATCE 2011, Denver, Colorado.

Session Chair, Inversion II: Uncertainty Management, AGU Fall 2010, San Francisco, CA.

Session Co-Chair, Seismic and Geologic Modeling, SPE-ATCE 2010, Florence, Italy.

Technical Committee, Geology and Geophysics, SPE-ATCE 2010, Florence, Italy.

Session Co-Chair, Advanced Inverse Strategies, AGU Fall 2009, San Francisco, CA.

Invited Presentations:

Jafarpour B. (J.L. Frank 58 graduate seminar, Texas A&M University): Exploiting sparsity

in reservoir engineering optimization problems, J.L. Corky Frank Graduate Seminar, Dept.

of

Petroleum Engineering, Texas A&M October 2010, College Station, TX.

Jafarpour B.: Ensemble-based model calibration under structural model uncertainty,

Ameri-

can Geophysical Union, 2010Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting, Session: H04. Uncertainty

in

Groundwater Model Calibration and Applications, June 2010, Taipei, Taiwan.

Jafarpour B.: Lecture 1: Data assimilation in reservoir engineering; Lecture 2:

reservoir pa-

rameterization; Lecture 3: sparse reconstruction: towards feature estimation, Summer

School

on Data Assimilation, July 2009, Sibiu, Romania.

Jafarpour B.: History matching of oil reservoirs with the ensemble Kalman filter,

Schlum-

berger Doll-Research Center, February 2009, Cambridge, MA.

Jafarpour B.: Towards a feature-based estimation approach in subsurface

characterization,

J.L. Corky Frank Graduate Seminar, Dept. of Petroleum Engineering, Texas A&M November

2008, College Station, TX.

McLaughlin D.B., Jafarpour B.: Accounting for spatial structure in reservoir parameter

esti-

mation, SPE Closed-loop Reservoir Management, June 2008, Bruges, Belgium.

McLaughlin D.B., Jafarpour B.: Towards a feature-based approach to ensemble data

assimila-

tion, International EnKF Workshop for Updating of Reservoir Simulation Models, June

2008,

Voss, Norway.

McLaughlin D.B., Jafarpour B.: Realistic ensemble generation and efficient multi-scale

estima-

tion for reservoir control problems, International EnKF Workshop for Updating of

Reservoir

Behnam Jafarpour/Curriculum Vitae

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Simulation Models, 18-20 June 2007, Bergen, Norway.

AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS

W.F. & Marilyn Albers Family Faculty Fellow, Texas A&M University 2008-present

Outstanding Environmental Engineering Graduate Student, University of Delaware 02/2003

George Laird Fellowship finalist, College of Engineering, University of Delaware 11/2002

Monbusho Japanese Government Fellowship 09/2001

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

Courses Taught/Co-taught

PETE689-01, Reservoir Characterization and Forecasting (Fall10, Graduate-TAMU, 8

enrolled)

PETE322, Geostatistics (Sp10, Undergraduate-TAMU, 126 enrolled)PETE689-01,ReservoirCharacterizationandForecasting(Fall09,Graduate-TAMU,16enrolled)

PETE689-03, CO Capture and Uses (Fall08, Co-taught, Graduate-TAMU, 6 enrolled)

2

PETE322, Geostatistics (Sp09, Undergraduate-TAMU, 50 enrolled)

PETE689-01,ReservoirCharacterizationandForecasting(Fall08,Graduate-TAMU,25enrolled)

PETE689-03, CO Capture and Uses (Fall08, Co-taught, Graduate-TAMU, 8 enrolled)

2

PETE322, Geostatistics (Sp08, Undergraduate-TAMU, 40 enrolled)

Mentoring and Supervision

Postdoctoral Researchers :

Lianlin Li: Sparsity regularization for geosciences inverse problems 08/2009-present

Doctoral Students :

Eric Bhark: Reservoir parameterization (Co-chair with Akhil Datta-Gupta)

04/2008-present

Morteza Khodabakhshi: Pattern-based facies estimation

01/2009-present

Tarrahi: Characterization of geothermal reservoirs

09/2009-present

MastersStudentsStudents :

Hossein Shamshiri:

CO storage optimization01/2009-present

2

Mohammadreza Mohammad Khaninezhad: Subsurface imaging 09/2009-present

Undergraduate Students Students :

Ashwin Pasumarti: CO storage in saline aquifers 08/2009-present2

Projects and Grants

3. US-DOE ($766,834) / (with Y. Efendiev, A. Datta-Gupta, B. Mallick, P. Vassilevski)

08/2010

Bayesian uncertainty quantification in predictions of fluid flows in highly heterogeneous

media

and its applications to CO2 sequestration

2. US-DOE ($1,025,000) / (with Ahmad Ghassemi

)

09/2009-09/2012

Geothermal reservoir stimulation using geomechanical-based stochastic analysis of

injection-induced

seismicity

1. IAMCS-KAUST-TAMU Innovation Grant ($20,000) / (with Wolfgang Bangerth) 09/2009

Exploiting sparsity in solving geosciences inverse problems

Behnam Jafarpour/Curriculum Vitae

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PUBLICATIONS

-14 November 2008, Las Vegas, NV.

12. McLaughlin D.B.,Jafarpour B.(invited talk): Accounting for spatial structure in

reser-

voir parameterestimation, SocietyofPetroleum EngineersClosed-loopReservoir Manage-

ment, 23-26 June 2008, Bruges, Belgium.

11. McLaughlin D.B., Jafarpour B.(invited talk): Towards a feature-based approach to

ensemble dataassimilation, InternationalEnKFWorkshop forUpdatingofReservoir Sim-

ulation Models, 18-20 June 2008, Voss, Norway.

10. JafarpourB.,McLaughlinD.B.(abstract/oral): Efficientparameterandstateestimation

through an ensemble Kalman filter and discrete cosine parameterization with application

in oil reservoir characterization, Fall Meeting of American Geophysical Union, 10-14 De-

cember 2007, San Francisco, CA.

9. Jafarpour B., McLaughlin D.B.(non-reviewed manuscript/oral): History-matching with

and ensemble Kalman filter and discrete cosine parameterization, Paper SPE-108761, So-

cietyofPetroleumEngineersAnnualTechnicalConference andExhibition, 11-14November

2007, Anaheim, CA.

8. McLaughlinD.B.,JafarpourB.(invitedtalk): Realisticensemblegenerationandefficient

multi-scale estimation for reservoir control problems, International EnKF Workshop for

Updating of Reservoir Simulation Models, 18-20 June 2007, Bergen, Norway.

7. Jafarpour B., McLaughlin D.B. (non-reviewed manuscript/poster): Efficient permeabil-

ity parameterization with the discrete cosine transform, Paper SPE-106453, Society of

Petroleum Engineers Reservoir Simulation Symposium, 26-28 February 2007, Woodlands,

TX.

6. Jafarpour B., McLaughlin D.B. (abstract/poster): Assimilation of production data for

oil reservoir characterization: A parameter estimation problem, Fall Meeting of American

Geophysical Union, 11

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