Investigators

Dr. Baojun Bai

Center Director

573-341-4016 | baib@mst.edu
161 McNutt Hall

Dr. Thomas Schuman

Professor, Chemistry

573-341-6236 | tschuman@mst.edu
335 Schrenk Hall

Dr. Mingzhen Wei

Associate Professor, Petroleum

573-341-4657 | weim@mst.edu
330 McNutt Hall

Mr. David Smith

President and Principal Advisor, Oilfield Conformance Consulting LLC. Adjunct Professor, Petroleum Engineering 346-545-2038 | davidsmith@oilfieldconformance.com short bio

Graduate Students

Current PhD students

  • Eriyagama, A M Yugandhara
  • Liu, Junchen 
  • Alotibi, Adel
  • Liu, Yanbo
  • Mccauley, Sara Darko, Caleb

Graduated PhD students

  • Zun Chen, 2015, Intel Corporation, Portland, Oregon
  • Abdulmohsin Imqam: 2016, ZL company, Houston
  • Xindi Sun, 2018, Ass. Prof, Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania
  • Jiaming Geng, 2018, DuPont,Havard, MA
  • Jingyang Pu, 2019, Postdoc/UT, Ass. Prof/China U of Petroleum
  • Ze Wang, 2019, GOWell International, LLC
  • Yifu Long, 2020, CNPC Engineering Institute, Beijing
  • Buddhabhushan Salunkhe, 2021,Rust-Oleum Corporation
  • Shuda  Zhao, Fall 2022, Assistant Prof, Xi’an Shiyou University
  • Mohamed Ahdaya, Summer 2022, Mud Engineer, Haliburton
  • Tao Song, 2023, RIPED, PetroChina
  • Ali Al Brahim, 2023
  • Xiaojing Ge, 2024, New Mexico Tech

Graduated Masters

  • Yashu Chen, 2017, Research Center, SINOPEC, Beijing, China
  • Sujay Suresh , 2017, Baker-Hughes
  • Yizhou Wu, 2016, China University of Petroleum (Qingdao)
  • Danlu Zhang, 2016, ExxonMobil, Houston, now with JPMorgan Chase & Co, Vice President, CIB Tech