Akhil Datta-Gupta is currently full professor of petroleum engineering in the Harold Vance department at Texas A&M University

Texas A&M University

Texas A&M University is a coeducational public research university located in College Station, Texas . It is the flagship institution of the Texas A&M University System. The sixth-largest university in the United States, A&M's enrollment for Fall 2011 was over 50,000 for the first time in school...

. He obtained his BS from Indian School of Mines

Indian School of Mines

The Indian School of Mines is a fully residential and co-educational university located in the mineral-rich belt of India in the city of Dhanbad, Jharkhand. It was established in 1926 on the lines of the Royal School of Mines, London...

, and his MS and PhD degrees from University of Texas at Austin

University of Texas at Austin

The University of Texas at Austin is a state research university located in Austin, Texas, USA, and is the flagship institution of the The University of Texas System. Founded in 1883, its campus is located approximately from the Texas State Capitol in Austin...

, all in petroleum engineering. His research focuses on the development of high resolution numerical schemes for reservoir simulation

Reservoir simulation

Reservoir simulation is an area of reservoir engineering in which computer models are used to predict the flow of fluids through porous media.-Uses:...

, reservoir characterization, enhanced oil recovery

Enhanced oil recovery

Enhanced Oil Recovery is a generic term for techniques for increasing the amount of crude oil that can be extracted from an oil field...

 and environmental remediation. Dr. Akhil Datta-Gupta is the recipient of numerous awards, among them the Cedric K. Ferguson Award (2000) and the Lester C. Uren Award (2003). He is the author of the Society of Petroleum Engineers's book "Streamline Simulation: Theory and Practice".

External links

• http://www.pe.tamu.edu/datta-gupta/