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Inviting students, postdocs and all scientists!
EAPS Career Mentor Coffee Hour with
Arthur C.H. Cheng, ScD ‘78
ERL Fellow, MIT ERL / EAPS
Professor, National University of Singapore
Former Senior Manager, Halliburton
Wednesday, 03/06/19, 10:30am
Nafi Toksöz Seminar Room (54-209)
Please RSVP to Josh at erl-info@mit.edu
Arthur C.H. Cheng is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, specializing in Petroleum Geosciences, at the National University of Singapore. Prior to taking his current position in September 2014, he was Senior Manager for Acoustics and Borehole Seismics at Halliburton Technology, where he led the development of the Xaminer® Sonic Imager tool. He received a Sc.D. in Geophysics from MIT in 1978. He was one of the cofounders of the Earth Resources Laboratory in 1982, and was Project Leader of the Borehole Acoustics and Logging Consortium until 1996, when he joined Western Atlas as Manager of Acoustic Science. He had also worked for Baker Atlas, Baker Hughes Inteq, Sensor- Wise, and RockSolidImages in various managerial and consulting capacities. He had published over 120 papers and holds 21 patents, with a number more pending. He has co-authored two books on borehole acoustics. His current research interests are rock physics modeling and quantitative seismic reservoir characterization. Arthur has served on a number of academic and industry positions through the years including the Visiting Committee for EAPS from 2004-2008. He is currently an Assistant Editor for Geophysics, and a member of the SEG Foundation Board of Directors. He received the Life Membership Award from SEG in 2013, the Distinguished Technical Achievement Award from SPWLA in 2015, and the SPE Formation Evaluation Award in 2016.
