Arvind P. Ravikumar

Co-Director, Energy Emissions Modeling and Data Lab

Research Associate Professor, Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering Department, The University of Texas at Austin

Bio: Dr. Ravikumar is the co-Director of the Energy Emissions Modeling and Data Lab (EEMDL) at the University of Texas at Austin and a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering. He has published over 50 articles in peer-reviewed journals, primarily in the areas of greenhouse gas emissions measurements and energy systems analysis. Dr. Ravikumar 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. Dr. Ravikumar is a Senior Associate with the Center for Strategic and International Studies and graduated with a Ph.D. from Princeton University.

Current Lab Members

  • Jiayang (Lyra) Wang

    Research Scientist
    Research Areas: Field measurements of methane emissions from oil and gas operations, machine learning for sustainability

  • Yuanrui Zhu

    Ph.D. student ‘26
    Research Areas: Life-cycle assessment of global Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) supply chains

  • Haojun Xia

    Ph.D. student ‘26

    Research Areas: FEAST modeling framework

  • Alan Strayer

    Ph.D. student ‘27
    Research Areas: FEAST modeling for new technologies, methane emissions and power sector

  • Shuting (Lydia) Yang

    Postdoctoral Scholar
    Research Areas: Implications of the growth in LNG industry on global net-zero targets

  • Oladamola (Damola) Amieyeofori

    Ph.D. student ‘26
    Research Areas: High resolution measurements of methane emissions from oil and gas operations

  • Haoming Ma

    Post-doctoral Fellow

    University of Calgary, Ph.D.
    Research Areas: Measurement-informed life cycle assessments of natural gas supply chains

  • Eldar Sharafutdinov

    Ph.D. student ‘27

    Research Areas: Multi-scale measurements of methane emissions from oil and gas facilities

  • Saahil Gupta

    Ph.D. student ‘28

    Research Areas: Technology assessment and field measurements of greenhouse gases

  • Raha Helali Esfahani

    Ph.D. student ‘28

    Research Areas: Field measurements of methane emissions; Temporal analysis

  • Ibrahim Almulhem

    Masters’ student ‘24

    Research Areas: Assessment of feasibility of low carbon hydrogen production around the world

  • Lynsie Patschke

    Masters’ student ‘24

    Energy, Environment, and Resources Program

    Research Areas: Carbon accounting across energy supply chains

  • Abdulmohsen Almulhim

    Masters’ student ‘25

    Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering

    Research Areas: Hydrogen

SET Lab Alumni

  • Chandler Kemp

    Research Associate (2019 — 2021)
    Current Position: Assistant Professor of Sustainable Energy, University of Alaska Fairbanks

  • Devyani Singh

    Postdoctoral Scholar (2019—2021)
    Current Position: Environmental Defense Fund

  • Hugh Li

    Research Scientist (2020—2021)
    Current Position: Environmental Defense Fund

  • Valeria Vallejo

    Masters’ student (2021—2023)
    Current Position: Rystad Energy