I am a PhD candidate in Petroleum Engineering at the University of Houston, advised by Dr. Christine Ehlig-Economides. I started in the field: before graduate school I spent more than three and a half years as an on-site production engineer at Qadirpur, one of Pakistan’s largest gas fields, managing workovers, stimulation, artificial lift, and well testing.

My research spans CO₂ utilization and storage, waterflooding design, and wastewater disposal, with field studies in the Permian Basin and offshore Northwest Australia. I developed a machine learning framework that identifies and characterizes leaking legacy wellbores (patent pending), work that was featured in the Houston Chronicle and on Houston Public Media. I am now building a wastewater disposal optimization tool to stop leakage events before they happen, under an Interagency Cooperation Contract between UH and the Railroad Commission of Texas.

More broadly, I am interested in building data-driven systems and technologies that rethink and streamline established industrial workflows.

Here is a selection of my research, starting with ongoing work:

I have also talked about this work publicly, in the press and in interviews:

Before and during my PhD, I have worked in the following industry and research roles: