CAREER OBJECTIVE

Highly dedicated and motivated geoscientist and petrophysicist seeking a full-time position in Oil and Gas Industry

PROFESSIONAL CREDENTIALS

Expertise, Problem Solving and Analytical Skills in Reservoir Characterization, Geosciences, and Petrophysics

• Top learner, multiple top journal published author, multiple award winner and patent owner

• Skilled and productive experimentalist and modeler, recognized with high quality creative work that exceeds expectation

• Serve as the first PhD student of my academic adviser and tremendously contribute to build the research group from scratch with designing and assembling a variety of research instrumentations and have significantly developed trouble-shooting skills

• Professional skills: HTHP experimentation, reservoir characterization and simulation, multiphase fluid flow through porous media, interfacial phenomena, enhanced oil recovery, geologic carbon sequestration, finite difference method, finite element analysis

• Software skills: proficient in MATLAB, ABAQUS, LabVIEW, Visual Minteq, Crystal Ball, PHREEQC, ImageJ, Paint.NETand Microsoft Excel; experienced with Aspen Plus, SPSS, AutoCAD, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Illustrator, Simapro and WinHSPF

Leadership, Communication and Teamwork Skills, Work Ethics and Personality

• Lead in a variety of academic and social organizations and activities

• Recognized with strong communication and decision-making skills as team leader, teammate, mentor, graduate student and friend

• Uphold high ethical and moral standards, value hard work and pursue eminence

• Enjoy and devote to work with an average of 14 hours per day spent on work

• Developed mature, creative, positive, ambitious, responsible, resilient, supportive, surefooted, considerate and cheerful personality

RESEARCH & TEACHING EXPERIENCES

Graduate Research Assistant, VEST Laboratory, University of Virginia Sep 2007 to Present

• Manage multiple tasks simultaneously, have honed time management and task prioritizing skills, addressed many key scientific questions and acquired well recognized outcomes in 9 challenging and interdisciplinary research projects

1. Collaborate with Princeton University and Brookhaven National Laboratory to systematically characterize wettability phenomena of reservoir solids with CO2 under in situ conditions using self-designed test rig

2. Investigate the rheology of CO2-brine mixtures under representative geologic carbon sequestration conditions

3. Model CO2 transport phenomena through porous media under reservoir conditions and evaluate roles of a variety of important geophysical, geochemical and operational parameters

4. Explore mechanisms of CO2 bubble/droplet formation under representative reservoir conditions

5. Devise and build a 1-meter column test rig embedded with porous media to validate CO2 and brine transport mechanisms

6. Invent gas expended lubricants for engines which increase 20% energy efficiency collaborating with the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UVa and determine the thermoelastichydrodynamic properties, rheology and tribology

7. Create a highly computational modeling algorithm independently from scratch to calculate penetration of lubricants into tool cutting region and study tool tribology in advanced manufacturing processes

8. Measure wettability of heterogeneous surfaces on microfluidic chip collaborating with the Department of Chemistry at UVa

9. Conduct a fate and transport modeling work of estrogen in Chesapeake Bay watershed

• Act as research mentor and principal investigator and lead 5 teams with 2 graduate students and 11 undergraduate students

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of CEE, University of Virginia Sep 2009 to Jan 2010

• Served as graduate teaching assistant (GTA) for Aquatic Chemistry for Environmental Engineers class

• Assisted with developing teaching materials, taught lectures, hosted office hours and graded homework and exams

• As a first-time GTA, complimented and loved by students, recognized and recommended by course instructor as top GTA and won the only Graduate Teaching Award for year 2010 in the department

Undergraduate Research Assistant, Engineering Key Laboratory, Dalian University of Technology Sep 2005 to Jun 2007

• Fabricated nitrogen, potassium-doped TiO2 nanotube and studied its effects on degradation of persistent organic pollutants (POPs)

• Assessed electrochemical adsorption capacity of activated carbon fibers and their surface physicochemical characteristics

• Constructed a comprehensive database on waste water treatment plants in China

• Explored uptake of atmospheric polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAHs) by plant leaves

• Coordinated a team of 4 peer students on life cycle analysis of disposable lunchbox and its alternatives and delivered a keynote speech at the University of Kitakyushu in Japan in 2006

EDUCATION

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

• Doctor of Philosophy, Civil and Environmental Engineering June 2009 to Dec 2012 (expected)

Dissertation title: The impact of interfacial phenomena on controlling leakage from geologic carbon sequestration sites

• Master of Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering GPA: 4.03/4.0 (A+=4.33) Aug 2007 to May 2009

• Relevant coursework: Groundwater Hydrology, Surface Chemistry, Transport Phenomena, Multiphase Flow, Aquatic Chemistry, Fluid Mechanics, Computational Methods, Finite Element Methods, and Green Engineering and Sustainability

• Engineering certification: Engineer in Training (EIT) April 2012

Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China

• Bachelor of Science, Environmental Engineering GPA: 3.86/4.0 (100%=4.0) Sep 2003 to Jun 2007

PUBLICATIONS & PATENT

Journal Articles (All Journals are Best in Related Field)

• Shibo Wang, Ian Edwards and Andres Clarens. (2012) “Wettability phenomena at the CO2-brine-mineral interface: implications for geologic carbon sequestration” ACS – Environmental Science and Technology, DOI: 10.1021/es301297z

• Shibo Wang and Andres Clarens. (2012) “The effects of CO2-brine rheology on leakage processes in geologic carbon sequestration”, AGU – Water Resources Research, DOI:10.1029/2011WR011220

• Shibo Wang and Andres Clarens. (2012) “Analytical model of metalworking fluid penetration into the flank cutting zone in orthogonal cutting,” ASME – Journal of Manufacturing Processes, In Press, Jul 2012

• Andres Clarens, Amir Younan, Shibo Wang, Paul Allaire. (2010) “Feasibility of gas-expanded lubricants for increased energy efficiency in tilting-pad journal bearings” ASME -Journal of Tribology. 2010, Vol. 132 / 031802-1 to 8.

• Yanhe Han, Xie Quan,Shuo Chen, Shibo Wang, YaobinZhang. (2007)“Electrochemical enhancement of adsorption capacity of activated carbon fibers and their surface physicochemical characterizations” Electrochimica Acta 2007 Vol. 52, (9), pp 3075-3081

Journal Articles in Preparation

• Shibo Wang, Zhiyuan Tao, Sara Persily and Andres Clarens. (2012) “Wettability phenomena at the CO2-brine-mineral interface: implications for geologic carbon sequestration: clay minerals” to be submitted to ACS – Environmental Science and Technology

• Shibo Wang, Zhiyuan Tao, Sara Persily and Andres Clarens. (2012) “Effects of crystal structure, surface roughness and method of preparation on wettability phenomena at the CO2-brine-mineral interface” to be submitted to ACS – Environmental Science and Technology

• Shibo Wang and Andres Clarens. (2012) “On vertical migration of CO2 through porous media”, to be submitted to AGU – Water Resources Research

• Shibo Wang, Jack St Marie and Andres Clarens. (2012) “Mechanisms of CO2 bubble/droplet formation under representative geologic carbon sequestration conditions”, to be submitted to AGU – Water Resources Research

• Yiwen Ouyang, Shibo Wang, Jingyi Li, Paul Riehl and James Landers. (2012) “Design and fabrication of a CD-like disposable microfluidic platform for serial dilution” to be submitted to RSC – Lab on a Trip

Conference Proceedings

• Shibo Wang and Andres Clarens. (2012) “Improved force balance for predicting vertical migration of CO2 from geologic sequestration sites” SPE – CMTC Conference. DOI:10.7122/151748-MS

• Shibo Wang and Andres Clarens. (2010) “Feasibility of Gas-Expanded Lubricants for Increasing Energy Efficiency in Power Turbines” Preprint Paper-American Chemical Society, Division of Fuel Chemistry, 55 (1)

Patent: International and US National

• Inventors: Andres Clarens, Paul Allaire, Amir Younan, Shibo Wang. “Gas-expanded lubricants for increased energy efficiency and related method and system” PCT/US2010/052878

Conference Presentations

• Andres Clarens, Shibo Wang, Bo Liang, Catherine Peters, Jeffrey Fitts, Hang Deng, Brian Ellis. (2012) “An integrated experimental program to understanding leakage from geologic carbon sequestration sites across scales”. Fall Meeting, American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, December 2012

• Shibo Wang and Andres Clarens. (2011) “The effect of CO2-brine rheology on leakage processes in geologic carbon sequestration”. Fall Meeting, American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, December 2011

• Shibo Wang and Andres Clarens. (2010) “Analytical model of metalworking fluid penetration into the flank cutting zone in orthogonal cutting,” STLE/ASME International Joint Tribology Conference, San Francisco, October 2010

AWARDS & HONORS

Huskey Award for Outstanding Research – 3rd Place for “Two-Hoos” Team Research, GSAS, UVa Mar 2012

Student Travel Grant Award, 11th CCUS Conference, Pittsburgh, PA Feb 2012

Chinese Government Scholarship for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Studying Abroad (Nominated) Nov 2011

Student Travel Grant Award, 2011 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA Sep 2011

Graduate Teaching Award (Year 2010), Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UVa May 2011

Graduate Student Award (Ranked No. 1), American Chemical Society, Division of Environmental Chemistry Feb 2010

ConocoPhillips - Penn State Energy Prize – Finalist and 1st Runner Up (Andres Clarens; Shibo Wang; Brian Tison) Sep 2009

• “Gas expanded lubricants: improving wind turbine efficiency using "smart" fluids”, awarded $75,000 as research funding

Level “A” Rating for Students’ Research Ability (Highest Ranking), Dalian University of Technology May 2007

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP

Society of Petroleum Engineer (SPE), Chinese American Petroleum Association (CAPA), American Geological Union (AGU), American

Chemical Society (ACS), American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE), Virginia Water Environment Association/Water Environment

Federation (VWEA/WEA), American Water Works Association (AWWA)

LEADERSHIP, COMMUNITY SERVICE & EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

Co-Founder and Vice President, US-China Business and Finance Club, UVa Mar 2012 to Present

Vice President and Department Representative, Graduate Engineering Student Council, UVa Jul 2010 to Jul 2011

Co-Founder and Member Jan 2011 to Present

• Sinora Club – a network of elites from a variety of backgrounds on business, finance and investment

Co-Organizer and Volunteer

• Charity Concert for Haiti Earthquake, Charlottesville, VA Feb 2010

• Charity Concert Series for 2008.5.12 Earthquake in China May 2008

Champion, UVa Chinese Student and Scholar Society Karaoke Contest Nov 2010

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