Research
Our team is focusing on several different topics including:
Big Data Analytics
Energy Storage
Predictive Analytics
Carbon Dioxide Removal
CO2 Sequestration
Quantum Computing
Research Team
Our research team members are amongst the brightest students at Mississippi State University.
Meisam Adibifard
PhD Student
I hold a MSc in Chemical Engineering from Sahand University of Technology in Iran. I have published several peer-reviewed and conference papers in research areas including big data analytics, stochastic optimization, data assimilation, machine learning, and computational fluid dynamics. Using different variants of machine learning and data assimilation, I endeavor to discover the underlying pattern and/or knowledge behind the huge amount of data. The discovered pattern will be used then to forecast the future behavior of the data. As it is said by Malcom X., ”The future belongs to those who prepare for it today”.
Fariba Nofeli
PhD Student
Fariba Nofeli is currently pursuing her Ph.D. degree in the Applied Physics at Mississippi State University since Fall 2017. She received her masters degree in Solid State Physics in Iran. Her publications are about studying electron transport properties in semiconductor materials for bulk and nano sheet by Monte Carlo Simulation and DFT method. Her research interests include Quantum Computing, Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), Simulation of Petroleum Reservoirs. Her PhD research is on the fusion of Petroleum Engineering and Quantum computing.
Ritabrata Santra
Undergraduate Student
I am currently pursuing my Bachelor’s in petroleum engineering with minors in Mathematics, Economics and Global Engineering Leadership. I am from Kolkata in India and came to the United States in 2015 to study in Mississippi State University. I am a DAAD Rise scholar (2017) and a member of Tau Beta Pi.My current project deals with Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) and how it can be integrated to meet the electricity demand in the south-eastern United States. I am also interested in geological CO2 sequestration under aquifers and hydrocarbon fields to mitigate CO2 emissions.
Tony (Tin) Le
Graduate Student
I received my Bachelor’s of Science in Chemical Engineering from Christian Brothers University in Memphis, TN. My research interests are in developing and adapting both alternative and current energy sources and adapting for the everchanging needs of the future. Of particular interest is raising the efficiency of solar conversion and improvement of oil fracking.
Sean Bartosik
Graduate Student
Hello, my name is Sean Bartosik and I'm from Ocean Springs, Mississippi. My undergraduate background is in Petroleum Engineering, and I am currently a graduate student studying Chemical Engineering at Mississippi State University.
Kathy Suazon
undergraduate Student
My name is Kathy Suazo.I am a senior majoring in Petroleum Engineering and minoring in Geology.I am an undergraduate researcher at Mississippi State University. Being part of the research team has positively impacted my career; it has been a great opportunity to learn, explore, and apply what I have learned in my classes so far.
Noah Weathersby
undergraduate Student
My name is Noah Weathersby and I am from St Louis, Missouri. I am a current junior in the petroleum engineering curriculum. I have been a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers since my freshman year. I spent the past two summers working internships in the manufacturing and utilities industry.
Mary Ellen Deaton
Graduated
Mary Ellen is a senior Petroleum Engineering undergraduate from Lena, Mississippi. She spent a semester researching Identification of Optimal CO2 EOR Sites as Part 1 of the "Road to Commercial CCUS in Mississippi" Project. Her oil and gas industry experience includes intern roles in operations and reservoir engineering. She has also served as MSU's Society of Petroleum Engineers' Chapter President.
Maria Degtyareva
Graduated
While being an architecture student, I decided to study Civil Engineering to learn more about construction. A couple of years later, discovering myself doing research in Geotechnical Engineering is both exciting and inspiring. Every research project, I have worked on, widened my interest range proving that inspiration always comes with hard work
Brooke Barnett
Undergraduate Student
I am from Locust Fork, Alabama and I am a senior in petroleum engineering. Last summer I worked as a process engineer in Meridian Mississippi with Certainteed Ceilings. This summer I was a petroleum engineering intern with Oasis Petroleum in Houston, Texas. In my few moments of spare time I love playing with my dog, cooking (especially baking), and drinking sweet tea!
Publications
- Khatib, Hassan S Al; Neupane, Subash; Manchukonda, Harish Kumar; Golilarz, Noorbakhsh Amiri; Mittal, Sudip; Amirlatifi, Amin; Rahimi, Shahram; “Patient-Centric Knowledge Graphs: A Survey of Current Methods, Challenges, and Applications”, arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.12608, 2024
- Neupane, Subash; Mitra, Shaswata; Mittal, Sudip; Golilarz, Noorbakhsh Amiri; Rahimi, Shahram; Amirlatifi, Amin; “MedInsight: A Multi-Source Context Augmentation Framework for Generating Patient-Centric Medical Responses using Large Language Models”, arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.08607, 2024
- Ramezani, Somayeh Bakhtiari; Cummins, Logan; Killen, Brad; Carley, Richard; Amirlatifi, Amin; Rahimi, Shahram; Seale, Maria; Bian, Linkan; “Scalability, Explainability and Performance of Data-Driven Algorithms in Predicting the Remaining Useful Life: A Comprehensive Review”, IEEE Access, 2023
- Vafaei, Ali; Vahedifard, Farshid; Amirlatifi, Amin; Tang, Chao-Sheng; “Probability Density Function of Geometrical Properties of Soil Desiccation Cracks at Different Relative Humidity Levels”, Geo-Risk, 2023
- Foroutan, Maziar; Ghazanfari, Ehsan; Amirlatifi, Amin; Moradian, Omid; “Evolution of fracture permeability and aperture during CO2 storage in varyingly cemented sedimentary rocks”, Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment, 2022
- Amirlatifi, Amin; Eckert, Andreas; Nygaard, Runar; “Estimation of Fluid Flow Boundary Conditions: The role of Pressure Transient Analysis in Safe CO2 Sequestration and Underground Storage”, 2022 American Rock Mechanics Association Annual Meeting, 26-29 June, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2022
- K-C, Bijay; Amirlatifi, Amin; Ghazanfari, Ehsan; “Improved Relationships of Moment Magnitude with Regional and Local Magnitudes for Earthquakes in the United States”, 2022 American Rock Mechanics Association Annual Meeting, 26-29 June, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2022
- Thuy Do, Maria; Amirlatifi, Amin; “Modeling of Carbon Capture Process”, 2022 Spring Meeting and 18th Global Congress on Process Safety San Antonio, TX, 2022
- Amirlatifi, Amin; Ovalle, Adriana; Abou-Sayed, Omar; Mohamed, Ibrahim; Ramezani, Somayeh Bakhtiari; “General Considerations for the Use of Offshore Depleted Reservoirs for CO2 Sequestration”, Society of Petroleum Engineers Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (SPE-ATCE), 2022
- Panchal, Yashesh; Amirlatifi, Amin; Sameh, Omar; Mostafa, Mahmoud; Ovalle, Adriana; Abou-Sayed, Omar; Mohamed, Ibrahim; “Use of Horizontal Drilling for CO2 Sequestration in Low Storage Capacity Aquifers: from Impossible to Feasible”, Society of Petroleum Engineers Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (SPE-ATCE), 2022
- Amirlatifi, Amin; Eckert, Andreas; Nygaard, Runar; “Estimation of Fluid Flow Boundary Conditions: The Role of Pressure Transient Analysis in Safe CO2 Sequestration and Underground Storage”, 56th US Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, 2022
- Foroutan, Maziar; Ghazanfari, Ehsan; Amirlatifi, Amin; Perdrial, Nicolas; “Variation of pore-network, mechanical and hydrological characteristics of sandstone specimens through CO2-enriched brine injection”, Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment, 2021
- Amirlatifi, Amin; KC, Bijay; Adibifard, Meisam; Vahedifard, Farshid; Ghazanfari, Ehsan; “Data analytics to investigate the cohort of injection wells with earthquakes in Oklahoma”, Earthquake Spectra, 2021
- Foroutan, Maziar; Ghazanfari, Ehsan; Amirlatifi, Amin; “Variation of failure properties, creep response and ultrasonic velocities of sandstone upon injecting CO2-enriched brine”, Geomechanics and Geophysics for Geo-Energy and Geo-Resources, 2021
- Bakhtiari Ramezani, Somayeh; Rahimi, Shahram; Amirlatifi, Amin; Hudnall, Matthew; Pate, Jeremy; Parrish, Allen; Penmetsa, Praveena; Qian, Xinwu; “Empowering Compartmental Modeling With Mobility and Shelter-in-Place Analysis”, Frontiers in Future Transportation, 2021
- Ramezani, Somayeh Bakhtiari; Amirlatifi, Amin; Rahimi, Shahram; “A novel compartmental model to capture the nonlinear trend of COVID-19”, Computers in Biology and Medicine, 2021
- Duc Cao, Toan; Thota, Sannith Kumar; Vahedifard, Farshid; Amirlatifi, Amin; “A Temperature-Dependent Model for Thermal Conductivity Function of Unsaturated Soils”, IFCEE, 2021
- Duc Cao, Toan; Kumar Thota, Sannith; Vahedifard, Farshid; Amirlatifi, Amin; “General thermal conductivity function for unsaturated soils considering effects of water content, temperature, and confining pressure”, Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 2021
- Amirlatifi, Amin; Bijay, K-C; Ghazanfari, Ehsan; Vahedifard, Farshid; Kosarian, Minoo; “Resilience through Data Analytics: Investigating the Shift of Seismic Activities in Oklahoma”, Geo-Extreme, 2021
- Bartosik, Sean Cristopher; Amirlatifi, Amin; “Machine Learning Assisted Lithology Prediction Utilizing Toeplitz Inverse Covariance-Based Clustering (TICC)”, Geo-Extreme, 2021
- Ramezani, Somayeh Bakkhtiari; Amirlatifi, Amin; Kirby, Thomas; Seale, Maria; Rahimi, Shahram; “Explainable Machinery Faults Prediction Using Ensemble Tree Classifiers: Bagging or Boosting?”, Annual Conference of the PHM Society, 2021
- Bakhtiari Ramezani, Somayeh; Killen, Brad; Cummins, Logan; Rahimi, Shahram; Amirlatifi, Amin; Seale, Maria; “A Survey of HMM-based Algorithms in Machinery Fault Prediction”, IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI), 2021
- Santra, Ritabrata; “Comparison of models for numerical simulation of low salinity waterflood”, , 2021
- Bartosik, SC; Amirlatifi, A; “Machine learning assisted geosteering”, ARMA US Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, 2020
- Ramezani, Somayeh Bakhtiari; Sommers, Alexander; Manchukonda, Harish Kumar; Rahimi, Shahram; Amirlatifi, Amin; “Machine learning algorithms in quantum computing: A survey”, 2020 International joint conference on neural networks (IJCNN), 2020
- Le, Tin Nguyen-Thanh; “Viability of UiO-66 Impregnated with Silver for Carbon Capture”, , 2020
- Amirlatifi, Amin; Vahedifard, Farshid; Degtyareva, Maria; Turner, Richard N; Sullivan, Brian; Santra, Ritabrata; Esposito, Richard A; “Reusing abandoned natural gas storage sites for compressed air energy storage”, Environmental Geotechnics, 2019
- A. Amirlatifi, J. R. Mills, O. Abou-Sayed, G. Block, A. S. Abou-Sayed, A. Zidane; “Rethinking Appraisal: Identification of Pre- and Post-Sanction Uncertainty Drivers in Deep and Ultra Deep Gulf of Mexico Fields Using Data Mining and Data Analytics”, Offshore Technology Conference, 2018
- A. Amirlatifi, G. Block, O. Abou-Sayed, A. S. Abou-Sayed, A. Zidane; “Well Performance in New Frontiers: Reducing Risk and Uncertainty through Large Scale Data Analytics”, Offshore Technology Conference, 2018
- Mortezaei, Kimia; Amirlatifi, Amin; Ghazanfari, Ehsan; Vahedifard, Farshid; “Potential CO2 leakage from geological storage sites: advances and challenges”, Environmental geotechnics, 2018
- Kamari, Arash; Pournik, Maysam; Rostami, Alireza; Amirlatifi, Amin; Mohammadi, Amir H; “Characterizing the CO2-brine interfacial tension (IFT) using robust modeling approaches: A comparative study”, Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2017
- Srivastava, Priyank; Wu, Xingru; Amirlatifi, Amin; Devegowda, Deepak; “Recovery factor prediction for deepwater Gulf of Mexico oilfields by integration of dimensionless numbers with data mining techniques”, SPE Intelligent Energy International Conference and Exhibition, 2016
- Amirlatifi, Amin; “Coupled geomechanical reservoir simulation”, 2013
- Amirlatifi, Amin; Eckert, Andreas; Nygaard, Runar; Bai, Baojun; Liu, X; Paradeis, M; “Role of geometrical influences of CO2 sequestration in anticlines”, ARMA US Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, 2012
- Sharifi, Mohsen; Ramezani, Somayeh Bakhtiari; Amirlatifi, Amin; “Predictive self-healing of web services using health score”, Journal of Web Engineering, 2012
- Eckert, Andreas; Paradis, M; Amirlatifi, A; “CO2 Injection In Anticline Reservoirs: Structural Influences On Maximum Sustainable Pore Pressure And Seismicity Related To Fault Reactivation”, Geological Processes from Global to Local Scales and Associated Hazards, September, Munich, Germany, 2011
- Amirlatifi, Amin; Eckert, Andreas; Nygaard, Runar; Bai, Baojun; “Estimation of reservoir uplift, seismicity and failure likelihood during CO2 injection through coupled reservoir simulation”, SPE Canada Unconventional Resources Conference, 2011