Major Awards and Honors

30+ Awards have been received from Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), China National Petroleum Company (CNPC), PetroChina, China Society of Petroleum, and Missouri S&T since 2006. Below lists the major awards and honors.

• Fellow of International Association of Advance Materials, 2024
• 2024 IOR Pioneer Award Winner, recognized at SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference (IOR 2024) in Tulsa, OK, April 23-25, 2024.
• 2024 Alfred Wegener Award Winner by European Association of Geoscientists  & Engineers (EAGE), June 2024, Olso, Norway
• Outstanding Technical Editor, SPE Journal, 2016, 2023, 2024
• SPE Distinguished Achievement International Award for Petroleum Engineering Faculty, 2023.
• Curators’ Distinguished Professor, University of Missouri System, 2023
• “A Peer Apart” Award by Society of Petroleum Engineering, 2022
• Asia Pacific Regional Leader, IEA (International Energy Agency) EOR TCP (Technology Collaboration Program) Award, 2021.
• Distinguished member of Society of Petroleum Engineer, 2019.
• Member of EU Academy of Sciences, 2018
• Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Mid-Continent Regional Service Award, 2018
• Outstanding Reviewer, Fuel, 2016
• SPE Mid-Continent Regional Distinguished Achievement Award for Petroleum Engineering Faculty, 2016
• Outstanding Teaching Award, 2014, 2015, 2017, Missouri University of Science and Technology
• Outstanding Reviewer, Journal of Petroleum Science and Technology, 2015, 2017
• Best Citation Awards of Petroleum Science (Journal), 2012, 2013
• Lester Birbeck Endowed Chair in Missouri University of Science and Technology, Since 2011
• Mines and Metallurgy Academy Faculty Award, Missouri S&T, April 2010

Research and Graduate Supervision

• Being funded more than 26 (18 plus 8 yearly consortium projects) external projects as PI (20) or Co-PI (6) since I joined in Missouri S&T as a faculty member in 2006. The funding comes from different competitive resources, mostly from DOE, and some from NSF and Industry.
• Supervised 44 PhD students, 42 Master students to complete their thesis/dissertation since 2006.
• Supervised over 15 visiting scholars and more than 10 post-doctor scholars.
• Supervised nearly 30 undergraduate students for research.
• Currently supervising additional 10 PhD and one Postdoc for research.

Publication and Citations

• Published more than 270 peer-reviewed papers in high quality journals. Most of them are my students/visiting scholars as first authors and myself as the corresponding author.
• Published over 150 full papers in SPE conferences.
• The total citations are 16,000+ with H-index 65 and i10-index 303 by October 23, 2024.

Professional Services

• Extensive professional service to SPE, Publisher (Elsevier), Committee of International Conferences and Award, High quality peer-reviewed journals as Associate Editor and Editorial Committee.
• Various Campus and Department Committee members, such as IP committee, P&T committee, Graduate coordinator, Petroleum Engineering Program Head.

Research Areas

• Conformance control to reduce excess water production using gels, especially preformed particle gels.
• Chemical EOR methods, including polymer flooding, polymer-surfactant flooding, MEOR (biosurfactant), and Wettability alteration for carbonate reservoirs.
• CO2 and CO2 foam flooding
• Shale Gas Development
• Geological carbon sequestration
• Reservoir numerical simulation
• Wellbore Leakage Control, Wellbore Integrity
• Temporary Diverting Agents Development and Application for Acid Stimulation and Hydraulic Fracturing
• Multiphase flow in porous media