Guojian Cheng, PhD

Dr. Guojian Cheng is a Visiting Scholar from China in the Petroleum Engineering & Analytics Research Lab at West Virginia University, which heads the U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center and is engaged in a number of joint U.S.-China CCS projects. In China, Guojian is a Professor at the School of Computer Science, Xi'an ShiYou (Petroleum) University -- XSYU. His current research focuses on the projects, Proxy Modeling with Core Vector Machine for Reservoir History Matching and Hybrid Soft Computing for Petroleum Reservoir Modeling & Simulation, both supported by National Natural Scientific Foundation of China. Previously, he was a Scientific Assistant at the Software Architecture Institute of the Information and Communications Department of the Daimler AG research center in Ulm, Germany. He received his Ph.D. University of Tinbingen, Germany and has published over 50 papers. Guojian's research interest is mainly on computational intelligence applications for petroleum engineering such as geology modeling, reservoir simulation, smart oilfields and also for data mining, machine learning, pattern recognition, biometrics, business intelligence, etc