ArvindRavikumar

Assistant Professor Arvind Ravikumar, Co-Director, Energy Emissions Modeling and Data Lab
Assistant ProfessorCo-Director, Center for Energy and Environmental Systems Analysis

Research Areas
Research Interests

Air emissions and air quality; Carbon management;
Climate and energy policy; Energy life cycle assessment; Energy sustainability and systems analysis; Greenhouse gas emissions/measurement;
Natural gas engineering; Pipeline transmission and distribution; Sustainability of oil and gas supply chains

About

Arvind Ravikumar joined the Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering in 2021, bringing a multidisciplinary and globally focused approach to sustainable energy development in the face of climate change. He is the co-director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Systems Analysis, an organized research unit at UT Austin dedicated to data-driven assessments of greenhouse gas emissions from global energy supply chains.

Ravikumar has published over 60 articles in peer-reviewed journals, primarily in the areas of greenhouse gas emissions measurements and energy systems analysis. He has been a lead investigator for several large-scale, field campaigns in the US and Canada on methane emissions from oil and gas supply chain and evaluating new technologies for monitoring greenhouse gases. He routinely advises state and federal governments, provides expert testimony in Congress and served on the US Department of Transportation Gas Pipeline Advisory Committee’s Gas Pipeline Advisory Committee from 2018 to 2024.

Ravikumar is a recipient of the Sustainability and Stewardship in the Oil and Gas Industry Award and the Regional Data Science and Engineering Analytics Award from the Society of Petroleum Engineers and a James J. Morgan early career award honorable mention from the American Chemical Society. He completed post-doctoral training at Stanford University and graduated with a Ph.D. from Princeton University.

Educational Qualifications

Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, 2015
M.A., Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, 2015
M.S., Physics, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, 2010
B.E., Electrical Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, 2008

Select Awards & Honors

  • Regional Data Science & Engineering Analytics Award – Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) (Southwestern North America Region) (2026)
  • James J. Morgan Early Early Career Award (Honorable Mention) – American Chemical Society (2024)
  • Sustainability and Stewardship in the Oil and Gas Industry Award – Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Southwestern North America Region (2023)
  • Newport Graduate Award in Photonics – Princeton University (2015)

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