HeweiTang

Assistant Professor Hewei Tang
Assistant ProfessorPioneer Corporation Faculty Fellowship in Petroleum Engineering

Research Areas
Research Interests

Direct air capture with geothermal energy; Fracture characterization in enhanced geothermal systems; Using neural operators for subsurface simulations

About

Hewei Tang is an assistant professor in the Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering. Before joining the UT PGE faculty in 2024, she was a staff scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Tang serves as executive editor of Geoenergy Science and Engineering (formerly known as the Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering) and is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (ATCE) program committee.

Her research interests include data assimilation, uncertainty quantification and deep learning-based surrogate modeling for subsurface multiphase flow.

Educational Qualifications

Ph.D., Petroleum Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2019
M.S., Petroleum Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2016
B.S., Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Tsinghua University, 2014

Select Awards & Honors

  • Regional Data Science and Engineering Analytics Award – Society of Petroleum Engineers (2025)
  • Physical and Life Sciences Directorate Award – Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (2023)
  • Physical and Life Sciences Directorate Spot Award – Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (2021)
  • Executive Editor – Geoenergy Science and Engineering
  • Associate Editor – Society of Petroleum Engineers Journal
  • Associate Editor – Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering
  • Co-Chair, Technical Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Data (TCAID) of ARMA

Select Publications

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