Former Students


Kevin Aranha
Master of Science
Petroleum Engineering
Previous Degree: Bachelor of Engineering,Mechanical Engineering, Mumbai University, India.
Research Topic: Coupled Geomechanical and Fluid Flow modeling of Carbonate Reservoirs
Email: karanha@usc.edu


Chenguang Xue
Master of Science
Petroleum Engineering, University of Southern California
Previous Degree: Bachelor of Science,Geophysics, Wuhan University, China.
Research Area: Seismic data interpretation by OpendTect, seismology in petroleum engineering
Email: chenguax@usc.edu
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Arman Khodabakhshnejad
PhD
Petroleum Engineering, University of Southern California
Previous Degrees:
Master of Science, Reservoir Engineering, Sharif University of Technology
Bachelor of Science,  Petroleum Engineering, Petroleum University of Technology
Research Area: Hydraulic fracturing Simulation, Reservoir Geomechanics, Numerical Simulation, Unconventional Resources, Reservoir Engineering,
Email: khodabak@usc.edu
Cell: (213) 880-4624
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Nima Jabbari
PhD
Environmental Engineering, University of Southern California
Previous Degrees:
Master of Science, Environmental Engineering, University of Southern California
Bachelor of Science,  Civil Engineering, University of Tehran
Research Area: Safety and Environmental Aspects of Hydraulic Fracturing, Contaminant Transport and Fate in Porous Media, Health Risk Assessment, Site Characterization
Email: jabbari@usc.edu
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Di Chai
Master of Science, University of Southern California
Petroleum Engineering
Di Chai completed Bachelor of Science from China University of Petroleum(East) in 2012. His current research is on ‘Generating Pseudo-log Using Artificial Neural Network ’ with Dr. Fred Aminzadeh.
Email: dchai@usc.edu
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Junchen Lu
Master of Science
Petroleum Engineering, University of Southern California
Junchen Lu completed Bachelor of Science from China University of Geoscience (Beijing) in 2014. His current research is on ‘Hough-transform-model to identify and analyze the fractures’ with Dr. Fred Aminzadeh.
Research Area: Geology, Reservoir Characterization, Induced Seismicity
Emailjunchenl@usc.edu


Moustafa Badawy
Master of Science
Petroleum Engineering, University of Southern California
Previous Degrees:
Bachelor of Science, Natural Gas & Petrochemical Engineering, Alexandria University, Egypt
Research Area: Reservoir Simulation of Foam Fracturing
Email: mbadawy@usc.edu


Cuiting Qi
Master of Science
Petroleum Engineering, University of Southern California
Previous Degree:
Bachelor of Petroleum Geology, China University of Petroleum (East China)
Research Topic: Seismology in Petroleum Engineering
Email: cuitingq@usc.edu
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Siamak Koloushani
Master Of Science
Petroleum Engineering
University of Southern California
925 Bloom Walk HED 308
Los Angeles, CA 90089-1211
Email: kolousha@gmail.com


 

Debotyam Maity
Doctor of Philosophy
Petroleum Engineering
University of Southern California
925 Bloom Walk HED 309
Los Angeles, CA 90089-1211
Email: maity@usc.edu
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Tayeb Ayatollahy Tafti
Doctor of Philosophy
Petroleum Engineering
University of Southern California
925 Bloom Walk HED 309
Los Angeles, CA 90089-1211
Email: ayatolla@usc.edu
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Asal Rahimi Zeynal
Master Of Science
Petroleum Engineering
University of Southern California
925 Bloom Walk HED 308
Los Angeles, CA 90089-1211
Email: rahimize@usc.edu


Abhinav Purohit 
Master Of Science
Petroleum Engineering(SOFT)
University of Southern California
925 Bloom Walk HED 308
Los Angeles, CA 90089-1211
Email: apurohit@usc.edu


Kartik S. Kumar
Master Of Science
Chemical Engineering
University of Southern California
925 Bloom Walk
Los Angeles, CA 90089-1211
Email: sumakuma@usc.edu



Thomas Gobel
Postdoctoral Scholar
Caltech Seismological Laboratory
Email: thw.goebel@gmail.com


Mehran Hosseini
Doctor of Philosophy
Petroleum Engineering
University of Southern California
925 Bloom Walk
Los Angeles, CA 90089-1211
Email: mehranh@utexas.edu


Aditya Tiwari
Master of Science
Petroleum Engineering
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-1211
Email: atiwari@usc.edu