Saman Aryana

BIO

Saman Aryana
  • Occidental Chair in Energy and Environmental Technologies
  • Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Graduate Program, Department of Chemical Engineering
  • Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Honors and Awards

  • Nominated for the Distinguished Graduate Faculty Mentor Award, University of Wyoming (2019)
  • DOE EFRC – Mechanistic Control of Water-Hydrocarbon-Rock interactions in Nanoporous Geological Media, co-PI (2018)
  • Best Paper Award (1st CAJG), Springer (2018)
  • Magnificent Mile (Diversity) Award, University of Wyoming (2018)
  • NSF Noyce - Wyoming Interns to Teacher Scholars, co-PI (2016)
  • PRF- DNI grant, American Chemical Society (2015)
  • Top Prof, Cap and Gown Chapter of Mortar Board, University of Wyoming (2015)
  • Certificate of Excellence in Reviewing, Journal of Natural Gas Science & Engineering (2013)
  • Robert M. and Ann. T. Bass Fellowship, Stanford University (2007-2012)
  • Centennial Teaching Assistant Award, School of Earth Sciences, Stanford University (2009)
  • Best Master’s Thesis Award, The Masonry Society (2006)
  • Construction Research Center Graduate Scholarship, University of Texas - Arlington (2005)
  • Arthur R. Poor Graduate Scholarship, University of Texas - Arlington (2004)
  • Ernest L. Buckley Undergraduate Scholarship, University of Texas - Arlington (2003)
  • Charlie M. Moore Scholarship, University of Texas - Arlington (2002)
  • Tau Beta Pi, University of Texas - Arlington (2002)
  • Chi Epsilon, University of Texas - Arlington (2002)

University Service & Professional Activities

  • University Graduate Council, University of Wyoming, 2021 – present.
  • Chemical Engineering Graduate Program Coordinator and Chair of the Graduate Committee, 2018-present.
  • College Technology Committee, Member, 2017-present.
  • Advanced Research Computing Center (ARCC) Faculty Advisory Committee Member, 2016-present.
  • Faculty Advisor, UWyo Student Chapter of NSBE, 2015-present. The student chapter was the recipient of 2017 Fall Regional Conference MVP (Region VI).
  • UW Regulation 2-13 Program Review Committee for Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of Wyoming, July 2021 – October 2021.
  • Reviewer for the American Indian Science and Engineering Society’s A.T. Anderson Memorial Schol- arship, 3M, Aristocrat VGT, and Intel Native NextGen Programs, June 2021.
  • Co-chair of session MS6-A (2): Physics of multi-phase flow in diverse porous media, 13th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Porous Media, June 2, 2021.
  • Co-organizer of mini-symposium MS6-A: Physics of multi-phase flow in diverse porous media, 13th An- nual Meeting of the International Society for Porous Media, May 31 – June 4, 2021.
  • Founder and president of the Northern Section of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, covering Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming, 2018 – 2021.
  • College of Engineering and Applied Science Bylaws Committee, Member, 2020 – 2021.
  • Ad-hoc committee to develop internal guidelines for the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of Wyoming, Member, 2019 – 2020.
  • Primary convener and co-chair of sessions MR003 and MR004. Toward a Holistic Understanding of the Physics of Unconventional and Tight Formations: Characterization, Transport, Reactions, Geomechanics and Scale Translation, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 1-17, 2020.
  • Scientific Committee of the third conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences, Member, November 2-5, 2020.
  • Co-chair of session MS6-A: Physics of multi-phase flow in diverse porous media. 12th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Porous Media, August 31 - September 3, 2020.
  • Primary convener and co-chair of session MR023. Multiscale Flow Through Complex Nanoscale Permeable Media Across Twelve Orders of Magnitude. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 9-13, 2019.
  • Co-organizer of the First Annual Meeting and Conference of the Northern States Section of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, University of Wyoming, September 27-29, 2019.
  • Co-organizer of mini-symposium: Multiscale, Multiphysics Models of Complex Structured Subsurface Systems. The first annual meeting and conference of the Northern States Section of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, September 27-29, 2019.
  • Led workshops as part of Women in STEM Conference, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, May 21, 2019.
  • Interim lead PI for the NSF Noyce grant at the University of Wyoming, entitled: Wyoming Interns to Teacher Scholars (WITS), August 2018 - January 2019.
  • Co-chair of Poster Pitch Presentation Session GS4, 9th International Conference on Porous Media & Annual Meeting (InterPore), Rotterdam, The Netherlands, May 8-11, 2017.
  • Chemical & Petroleum Engineering Graduate Committee, Member, 2013-16.
  • Petroleum Engineering Curriculum Committee, Member, 2015-16.
  • Chemical Engineering Newsletter, Editor, 2016.
  • Faculty Advisor, UWyo Student Chapter of SPE, 2014-16. The student chapter was the recipient of the 2015 Outstanding Student Chapter Award and the Gold Standard designation for 2016.
  • Center for Advanced Energy Studies, Affiliate 2015-16.
  • Faculty Advisor, Persian Student Association, 2015-16.
  • Outstanding Student Paper Award Judge, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 14-18, 2015.
  • Co-chair of Wettability and Fluid Recovery session at 12th International Symposium on Reservoir Wettability and its Effects on Oil Recovery, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, October 7-8, 2015.
  • Judge for the International Student Paper Contest, PhD Category, SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, New Orleans, September 30 - October 2, 2013.

Education

  • Ph.D., Stanford University, Energy Resources Engineering (2012)
  • M.S., University of Texas - Arlington, Civil Engineering - Structures & Applied Mechanics (2006)
  • B.S., University of Texas - Arlington, Civil Engineering - Summa Cum Laude (2003)

Other Education & Licensure

  • Professional Engineer (Inactive) - Texas No. 101924, 2008 - present.
  • Summer Institute of Entrepreneurship (SIE), Stanford Graduate School of Business, 2009.
  • Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford (d.school), Summer Workshop, 2008.
Contact Us

Saman Aryana

Chemical Engineering

Engineering Rm. 3020

Dept. 3295

1000 E. University Ave

Laramie, WY 82070

Phone: 307.766.1992

Email: saryana@uwyo.edu

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