ArvindRavikumar

UT PGE Assistant Professor, Arvind Ravikumar, sitting on a bench outside the Chemical and Petroleum Engineering (CPE) building at The University of Texas at Austin.
Assistant ProfessorCo-Director, Energy Emissions Modeling and Data Lab

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 Geosystem Engineering in 2021, bringing a multidisciplinary and globally-focused approach to sustainable energy development in the face of climate change.

He earned a Ph.D. and M.A. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University, where he was an Energy and Climate Scholars fellow at the Princeton Environmental Institute.

Ravikumar has published over 50 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 on greenhouse gas emissions from energy supply chains and currently serves on the US Department of Transportation’s Gas Pipeline Advisory Committee. 

He directs the Sustainable Energy Development Lab, a major research program under the Center for Subsurface Energy and the Environment (CSEE) that focuses on developing technical, social and policy solutions to effective climate action in the global energy sector through a combination of field work, model development and scenario analysis. Specific topics include the role of new technologies in decarbonizing the oil and gas industry, methane emissions and the future of LNG and natural gas, equitable energy transitions in extractive economies, and energy demand and sustainability in the developing world.

He is also co-director of the Energy Emissions Modeling and Data Lab, an initiative to develop transparent models and datasets for accurate greenhouse gas emissions.

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

  • 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)
  • Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Electrical Engineering – Princeton University (2015)
  • Graduate Teaching Fellowship, McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning – Princeton University (2014)

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