Dr. Mina S. Khalaf is a Research Scientist supporting the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory. He holds a Ph.D. in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Houston and has over ten years of combined research and industry experience in reservoir engineering, geothermal energy, computational geomechanics, and well test analysis. His work includes advancements in carbon storage, hydraulic and plasma fracturing, machine learning for subsurface applications, and pressure transient analysis, with multiple peer-reviewed publications in petroleum and energy engineering.
