Nicolas and Rasul Joined GIL
Nicolas and Rasul joined GIL as Ph.D. students in Spring 2025 and Fall 2025 respectively, Welcome!!
- Nicolas Cardenas Acevedo, supported by the Utah FORGE project, studies mechanism of induced seismicity in Enhanced Geothermal Systems.
- Rasul Amirov, supported by the Crisman Institute, studies the generation mechanism of fracture swarms during unconventional hydraulic fracturing stimulation.
Wencheng Jin
Assistant Professor of Petroleum Engineering
My research interests include novel rock breakage and fracture for subsurface resource recovery, data-driven and physics-based multiphysics modeling in porous and fractured media, and granular material flow characterization and modeling. My research provides solutions for energy/minerals recovery & storage, material handling, and GeoHazards prediction.