Projects

National Science Foundation

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  • Multidisciplinary High-Performance Computing and Artificial Intelligence Enabled Catalyst Design for Micro-Plasma Technologies in Clean Energy Transition; Project Period: 2024-2029.
  • Collaborative Research: Riding the Stress Wave: Integrated Monitoring, Communications, and Networking for Subsea Infrastructure; Project Period: 2018-2021.
  • A Deep Learning Toolbox for Subsurface Imaging in Exploration for Oil and Gas; Project Period: 2018-2020.
  • Deep Transfer Learning Enabled Machine Vision Inspection and Its Applications in Exploration Geophysics; Project Period: 2018-2020.
  • Advanced 3D Simulation Software for Electromagnetic Telemetry in Oilfield Services; Project Period: 2017-2019.
  • DEUS: Distributed, Efficient, Ubiquitous and Secure Data Delivery Using Autonomous Underwater Vehicles; Project Period: 2017-2020.

Department of Energy

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  • Ultra-High Temperature Azimuthal Tool for Well Integrity Evaluation; Project Period: 2024-2027.
  • Artificial Intelligence and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Real-Time Advanced Look-Ahead Subsurface Sensor; Project Period: 2024-2027.
  • Metamaterials for Geothermal Well Integrity Monitoring; Project Period: 2022-2022.
  • Multiphysics and Multiscale Simulation Methods for Electromagnetic Energy Assisted Fossil Fuel to Hydrogen Conversion; Project Period: 2021-2024.
  • A Real-Time Modeling and UQ Toolbox for Complex Subsurface Characterization; Project Period: 2021-2022.
  • Efficient and Economic Hydraulic Fracture Diagnostics using Metamaterials and Edge AI; Project Period: 2021-2022.
  • Deep Learning Enhanced Joint Inversion for High-Resolution CO2 Plume Monitoring; Project Period: 2020-2021.
  • A Web-based Turnkey Solution for Fast 3D Simulations of Electromagnetic Telemetry in Oilfield and Geothermal Drilling; Project Period: 2020-2024.
  • Enhance Full-Waveform Inversion with Machine Learned Low-Frequency Signals; Project Period: 2019-2022.
  • Hardening of DOE UQ Codes for Ultra-Deep Proactive Geosteering in Oilfield Service; Project Period: 2017-2020.

Institutions

  • Computational Prediction of Surface Stabilized Oxide Nanoparticles as High-Performance Oxygen Evolution Catalysts; Sponsor: UH ETI Seed Fund; Project Period: 2024-2025.
  • Robotic Fish Enabled Pipeline Inspection; Sponsor: Subsea Systems Institute; Project Period: 2022-2024.
  • Swarming of Bio-inspired Robotic Fish for Underwater CO2 Leakage Monitoring; Sponsor: UH Center for Carbon Management in Energy; Project Period: 2022-2023.
  • Real-time Subsurface Wireless Communication and Sensing System for CO2 Storage; Sponsor: UH Center for Carbon Management in Energy; Project Period: 2020-2021.
  • Machine Learning Enabled Downhole Computing for Geosteering Inversion; Sponsor: University of Houston Chancellors Technology Bridging Fund; Project Period: 2020-2020.
  • SeFAC: Advanced Electromagnetic Telemetry Simulation for Borehole Wireless Communication in Oilfield Drilling Services; Sponsor: University of Houston Core facility for Advanced Computing and Data Science; Project Period: 2018-2019.
  • Apparatus and Method for Wellbore Imaging in Oil-Based Mud; Sponsor: University of Houston Technology Gap Fund; Project Period: 2017-2019.
  • Stress Wave Assisted Communications in Subsea Environments; Sponsor: Subsea Systems Institute; Project Period: 2017-2018.

Industrial Sponsors

  • AI Enabled Screening/Predicting for Multi-Metallic Catalyst Combinations; Sponsor: Shell; Project Period: 2022-2023.
  • Machine Learning for Distributed Acoustic Sensing and Distributed Temperature Sensing Data Processing; Sponsor: Aramco Houston Research Center; Project Period: 2020-2021.
  • Machine Learning for Seismic Data Deblending and Multi-dimensional Interpolation; Sponsor: Advanced Geophysical Technology; Project Period: 2020-2023.
  • High-Performance Cloud Computing for Well Log Analysis; Sponsor: Schlumberger-Doll Research Center; Project Period: 2019-2019.
  • Data Analytics for Multidimensional Geochemistry Chromatogram Fingerprinting; Sponsor: RevoChem LLC; Project Period: 2019-2019.
  • Advisory Lateral Drilling Using Auto GR Fingerprinting; Sponsor: Shell; Project Period: 2018-2019.
  • Real-Time Drilling Advisor – Applications of Video Analytics in Risk Detection; Sponsor: Shell; Project Period: 2018-2019.
  • Electromagnetic Induction Antenna Design for Downhole Short Hop Wireless Communication; Sponsor: APS Technology.
  • Video Analytics for Quantifying the Cuttings at Shale Shaker; Sponsor: Shell; Project Period: 2017-2018.
  • Mud Resistivity Sensor Modeling and Optimization; Sponsor: APS Technology; Project Period: 2017-2017.