Behnam Jafarpour

Assistant Professor

Mark Albers Faculty Fellowship

401 F Richardson Building

College Station, TX 77843-3116

Phone: (979) 845-0666

e-mail: behnam@pe.tamu.edu

• Ph.D.in Civil and Environmental Engineering , MIT - 2008
  Dissertation: "Oil reservoir characterization using ensemble data assimilation"
• M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT - 2008
  Thesis: "Estimating Channelized Features in Geological Media Using Sparsity Constraints"
• M.Sc. in Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Delaware - 2003
  Thesis: "Mathematical Modeling of 2-4-DNT Reduction with Iron"
• B.Sc. in Civil Engineering, University of Tehran, 1999

Behnam Jafarpour joined the department as an assistant professor after completing his Ph.D. and M.Sc. degrees at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2007. His research is geared towards understanding, modeling, characterization, and management of energy resources and environmental systems. His current research focus is on application of signal processing, estimation, and control theory in stochastic reservoir identification, forecasting, and management. Among other topics of interest to him are geostatistical reservoir modeling, effective reservoir description, parameterization, model reduction, data assimilation, and closed-loop control of smart oilfields.