Fred Aminzadeh

Fred Aminzadeh is research professor at the University of Southern California’s Center for Integrated Smart Oil Fields (CiSoft). He is also associated with USC Energy Institute. He served as president of Society of Exploration Geophysicists in 2007-2008. Aminzadeh previously worked for Unocal with both technical and management responsibilities. Before Joining USC he was the president and CEO of dGB Earth Sciences USA (dgbes.com). He also was an adjunct professor of Geosciences department at Rice University and held many other full time and part time academic positions during his career. He has a Ph. D. from University of Southern California. His thesis dealt with the analysis of layered earth media. He is a fellow of IEEE, member of Russian Academy of Science, a member of Azerbaijan Oil academy, and National Research Council’s Committee on Seismology. He has served as a member of DOE’s Unconventional Resources Technology Advisory Committee, the chairman of the SEG Research Committee and chairman of the advisory board of Western Standard Energy Corp (WSEG.com) He has three patents and an extensive list of publications in diverse areas including eleven books such as those on Reservoir Characterization, Petroleum Geology of South Caspian Basin, 3-D Seismic Modeling Advances in Seismic Data Processing, Geophysics for Engineers, and Petroleum Industry Applications of Pattern Recognition and Soft Computing. Several of his books have been translated into Chinese and other languages.