Ryosuke Okuno, Ph.D., P.Eng.

Ryosuke Okuno is an assistant professor in the Department of Petroleum & Geosystems Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. Before his current position, he served as an assistant professor of Petroleum Engineering in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Alberta from 2010 to 2015. Okuno also has seven years of industrial experience as a reservoir engineer with Japan Petroleum Exploration Co., Ltd., and is a registered Professional Engineer in Alberta, Canada. His research and teaching interests include enhanced oil recovery, thermal oil recovery, oil displacement theory, numerical reservoir simulation, thermodynamics, multiphase behavior, and applied mathematics. Okuno is a recipient of the 2012 SPE Petroleum Engineering Junior Faculty Research Initiation Award, an Associate Editor for SPE Journal, and holds the Pioneer Corporation Faculty Fellowship in Petroleum Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Geosystem Engineering from the University of Tokyo, and a PhD degree in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.