Professor Yan's current research interests are physics-driven modeling and data-driven modeling for complex subsurface processes related to energy and environmental sectors. He has worked in areas including reservoir simulator development, multi-porosity modeling for flow and transport in heterogeneous porous media, integrating physics with data analytics in unconventional field and carbon storage management, history matching and stochastic optimization.

• Yan, B., Gudala, M, Sun, S. 2023. Robust Optimization of Geothermal Recovery based on A Generalized Thermal Decline Model and Deep Learning. Energy Conversion and Management, 286, 117033.
• Yan, B., Harp, D., Chen, B., Hoteit, H., Pawar, R.J. 2022. A Gradient-based Deep Neural Network Model for Simulating Multiphase Flow in Porous Media. Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 463:111277.
  
• Yan, B., Chen, B., Harp, D.R., Pawar, R.J. 2022. A Robust Deep Learning Workflow to Predict Multiphase Flow Behavior during Geological CO2 Sequestration Injection and Post-Injection Periods. Journal of Hydrology, Vol. 607: 127542.
• Yan, B., Harp, D.R., Chen, B., Pawar R.J. 2021. A physics-constrained deep learning model for simulating multiphase flow in 3D heterogeneous porous media. Fuel, 2021: 122693.
• ​Yan, B., Mi, L., Chai, Z., Wang, Y. et al. 2018. An Enhanced Discrete Fracture Network Model for Multiphase Flow in Fractured Reservoirs. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, Vol 161: 667-682.
• Yan, B., Mi, L., Wang, Y., Tang, H. etl al. 2018. Multi-Porosity Multi-Physics Compositional Simulation for Gas Storage and Transport in Highly Heterogeneous Shales. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, Vol 160: 498-509.
• Yan, B., Wang, Y., Nasrabadi, H., Killough, J.E. 2017. Accelerating Flash Calculation using Compositional Space for Compositional Simulation. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, Vol 159: 1000-1008.
• Yan, B., Wang, Y., Killough, J. 2017. A Fully Compositional Model Considering the Effect of Nanopores in Tight Oil Reservoirs. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, Vol 152: 675-682.
• Yan, B., Alfi, M., An, C., Cao, Y., Wang, Y., Killough, J.E. 2016. General Multi-Porosity Simulation for Fractured Reservoir Modeling. Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, Vol 33: 777-791.
• Yan, B., Wang, Y., and Killough, J.E. 2015. Beyond Dual-Porosity Modeling for the Simulation of Complex Flow Mechanisms in Shale Reservoirs. Computational Geosciences, Vol 20 (1): 69-91.

• Ph.D. Petroleum Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2017
• M.S. Petroleum Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2013
• B.S. Petroleum Engineering, China University of Petroleum (Beijing), 2009

• Postdoctoral Research Associate, Los Alamos National Lab, U.S., 2020-2021.
• Senior Data Scientist, DeepCast LLC, U.S., 2019-2021
• Asset Reservoir Lead/Reservoir Engineer/Data Scientist, Sanchez Oil&Gas, U.S., 2017-2019.
• Reservoir Simulation Engineer, ConocoPhillips, U.S., 2014-2015.

• Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)
• International Society of Porous Media (InterPore)
• American Geophysical Union (AGU)
• American Rock Mechanics Association (ARMA)
• Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)

• Best of URTeC 2020 Technical Paper Award (co-authorship with H. Klie and A. Klie from DeepCast LLC)
• 2016 Technical Editor Award for SPE Journal
• 2016 Teaching Fellow for Future Faculty by Texas A&M University

• Ali I. Al-Naimi Petroleum Engineering Research Center (ANPERC)
• Physical Science and Engineering Division (PSE)