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Principal Investigator


Behnam Jafarpour 
Principal Investigator, SEES Lab
Professor of Chemical Engineering and Material Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Civil and Environmental Engineering
Viterbi School of EngineeringUniversity of Southern California
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Material Science (Primary Appointment)
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering (Joint Appointment)
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (Joint Appointment)
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Education: 

  • PhD, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008
  • SM, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008
  • MSc, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Delaware, 2003
  • BSc, Civil Engineering, University of Tehran, 1999

Research Interests:

  • Stochastic Processes and Spatial Statistics 
  • Sparse Representations and Dimensionality Reduction
  • Inverse Modeling and Uncertainty Quantification
  • Optimization and Control of Subsurface Flow Systems
  • Data Science for Subsurface Energy Systems
  • Applied Estimation and Control

Teaching Interests:

  • Data-Driven Modeling for Physical Systems
  • Inverse Modeling for Dynamic Data Integration
  • Optimization Methods for Subsurface Energy Systems
  • Applied Geostatistics for Subsurface Modeling
  • Computational Methods for Energy and Environmental Systems
  • Transport Processes in Porous Media
  • Subsurface Characterization and Forecasting