Sanjay Srinivasan

Sanjay Srinivasan is a Professor of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering and the John and Willie Leone Family Chair in the Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering at Penn State University. He serves as Director of the EMS Energy Institute and leads the Penn State Initiative for Geostatistics and GeoModeling Applications. His research focuses on petroleum reservoir characterization, CO2 sequestration, and integration of seismic data in reservoir models through advanced geostatistical and machine learning methods.

• Ph.D., Petroleum Engineering, Stanford University
• M.S., Petroleum Engineering, University of Southern California
• B. Tech, Petroleum Engineering, Indian School of Mines

Srinivasan’s work addresses reservoir recovery processes, unconventional reservoirs, and subsurface energy security. His methodologies include probabilistic modeling, data assimilation, and AI-driven workflows for fracture network mapping and porous media generation. Key applications span Gulf of Mexico deepwater plays and geological carbon storage.

Recent publications highlight trends in:

• Reinforcement learning for geostatistical workflows and well optimization
• Physics-informed GANs for 3D porous media modeling
• Probabilistic integration of geomechanical and geostatistical inferences
• Machine learning approaches for seismic fracture identification
• CO2 sequestration in heterogeneous reservoirs

Scientific awards include Distinguished Member (SPE, 2022), SPE Faculty Pipeline Award (2012), Cox Visiting Fellowship (Stanford, 2010), and SPE Southwest Region Reservoir Description Award (2009).