Li Email: [email protected] Phone: 979-571-3948 Education  Ph.D. Applied Mathematics, Texas A&M University, TX 08/2009 Advisor: Yalchin Efendiev Thesis: Upscaling of Multiphase flow and transport in heterogeneous porous media.  M.S. Computational Mathematics, University, 07/2003  B.S. Computational Mathematics, Shandong University, China 07/2000

Research Interests  Multiscale finite element, mixed finite element method, nonlinear finite volume method  Coupled flow and geomechanics simulation, poroelastic/poroplastic model  Upscaling of single-phase and multi-phase flow and transport in porous media  Uncertainty quantification, sampling method, stochastic upscaling  Multiphase flow modeling and analysis in wellbore

Publications  Y. Chen, Y. Li, Y.Efendiev, TOF-based two-phase upscaling using single-phase global information for heterogeneous porous media, Advances in Water Resources, 2012.  L. Jiang, I. Michiev and Y. Li, Stochastic mixed multiscale finite element methods and their applications in random porous media, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Vol. 199, Issues 41-44, pp 2721-2740, 2010.  Y. Chen, Y. Li, Local-global two-phase upscaling in heterogeneous reservoirs, SIAM Multiscale Modeling and Simulation, Vol. 8, No.1, pp 125-153, 2009.  Y. Li, Y. Efendiev, Y. Chen, L. Durlofsky, L. Jiang, Perturbation approach for ensemble level flow upscaling, preprint.  Y. Li, C Foias, Analysis of a particular type of solution in flow and transport problem, preprint.  Y. Li, W. Bailey, M. Shippen, K. Rashid, B. Couet, J. Holmes, Self-Consistent Regime Independent Multiphase Model Extended to Cover a Wide Range of Pipe Inclinations, Proceeding of 15th International Conference on Multiphase Technology, Cannes, France, 15-17 June 2011  Y. Chen, Y. Li, Incorporation of global effects in two-phase upscaling for modeling flow and transport with full-tensor anisotropy, Proceeding of 12th European Conference on the Mathematics of Oil Recovery (ECMORXII), Oxford, UK, September 6-9, 2010.  Y. Li, Y. Chen, and Y. Efendiev, Efficient incorporation of time-dependent global effects in two-phase upscaling of flow and transport in heterogeneous formations, Proceeding of the 2009 International Association for Mathematical Geosciences (IAMG) Annual Conference, Stanford, CA, August 23-28, 2009.  Y. Li, Y. Efendiev, R.Ewing, G.Qin, X., Accurate multi-phase upscaling for flow and transport in heterogeneous porous media, conference proceeding, 15th Middle East Oil&Gas Show and Conference in Bahrain, Mar 11-14, 2007.  Numerical simulation for two phase flow and transport in porous media, DEAL II C++ program (Differential Equations Analysis Library, http://www.dealii.org/), 2006.  Numerical algorithms for two-dimensional dry granular flow with deformable elastic grains, IMA-Math Modeling in Industry Workshop IX, 2005.

Patent Application Publications  Y. Chen, Y. Li, Upscaling of flow and transport parameters for simulation of fluid flow in subsurface reservoirs, U.S. Patent Application Publication, Pub. No.: US 2009/12/480, 212, Pub Date: June 8, 2009.

Professional Experience  Lead research scientist, Chevron, Houston, TX 01/2014-present Major researcher and developer for an in-house geomechanics and flow simulator o Developed an implicit penalty method for hydraulic fracture propagation using finite element method. o Built reservoir geomechanics model, studying hydraulic fracture in different scenarios.  Research scientist, Chevron, Houston, TX 10/2011-12/2013 Major researcher and developer for an in-house geomechanics and flow simulator o Developed a nonlinear elastic model using finite element method. o Developed a poroplastic model using finite element method. o Improved stability of the numerical algorithm for a fully coupled geomechanics and flow simulation.  Postdoc fellow Institute of Mathematics and its applications, University of Minnesota 10/2009 -08/2011 Research on improved stable/smooth multiphase flow simulation o Developed a unified flow regime independent model for multiphase flow in conduits. Research on numerical simulation of the growth of nanowires o Developed a new algorithm using level set method for nanowire growth, which includs vapor, solid and liquid three phases.  Summer intern, ExxonMobil, Houston, TX 05/2009-08/2009 o Developed a nonlinear finite volume method TPFA for diffusion problem. o Developed a multipoint flux approximation method for diffusion problem. o Proposed and developed hybrid Picard-Newton iteration for nonlinear TPFA with accelerated convergence.  Summer intern, Chevron, San Ramon, CA 05/2008-08/2008 o Proposed and developed the TOF-based two phase upscaling method for flow and transport problem; the method is fast and stable. o Proposed and developed a local-global two phase upscaling method for flow and transport problem, this method significantly improves the accuracy of upscaled coarse model.  Research associate, Department of Math, Texas A&M University 09/2006-08/2009 o Research on multiphase upscaling for flow and transport in heterogeneous porous media. o Research on perturbation approach of ensemble level upscaling for stochastic flow problem. o Research on harmonic analysis of flow and transport equations.  Teaching assistant, Department of Math, Texas A&M University 09/2003-12/2008 o As a teaching assistant for various graduate courses and undergraduate courses. o As an instructor in record for an undergraduate course.

Programming Skills  Proficient with C, C++, Fortran, Matlab  Experience with commercial finite element software: Abaqus, Hypermesh, Reveal

Awards  Excellent reviewer Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, 2013  NSF Industrial Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2009-2011  NSF Young Researcher Travel Award AMS, 2007  AUF Fellowship Texas A&M University, 2004  Honor graduate student Shandong Province, China, 2003  Excellent Graduate Student Scholarship Shandong University, China, 2001  Academic Scholarship for 4 consecutive years, Shandong University, China, 1996-2000

Service  Reviewer for mathematics and petroleum engineering journals: Communication in Computational Physics, International Journal of Computer Mathematics, SPE Journal, Journal of Natural Gas Science & Engineering, etc.  Member of Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics  Member of Society of Petroleum Engineers