Kamy Sepehrnoori
Texaco Centennial Chair in Petroleum Engineering
Professor Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
Research Interests
Computational Mechanics High-Performance ComputingBiography
Kamy Sepehrnoori is a Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering professor at The University of Texas at Austin, where he holds the Texaco Centennial Chair in Petroleum Engineering. He has been teaching at The University of Texas since 1981 and has graduated more than 250 MS and PhD students under his supervision. His research interests and teaching include computational methods, reservoir simulation, simulation of unconventional reservoirs, enhanced oil recovery modeling, flow assurance modeling, naturally fractured reservoirs, high-performance computing, and CO2 sequestration. He has published over 800 journal articles and conference proceedings in his research areas. He has also co-authored four books. Sepehrnoori is the director of the Reservoir Simulation Joint Industry Project at the Center for Subsurface Energy and the Environment. He won the Anthony F. Lucas Gold Medal from the American Institute of Mining in 2022 and the Desiderius Erasmus Award from the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers in 2023. He holds BS, MS, and Ph.D. degrees from The University of Texas at Austin in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, and Petroleum Engineering.