Ullises T. Mello, IBM - Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA

Dr. Ulisses T. Mello is a research scientist at IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center and an adjunct associate research scientist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. He has more than 50 papers published in the literature. Dr. Mello received his Ph.D. and M.A. in geology from Columbia University, M.Sc. in geology from Federal University of Ouro Preto and B.Sc. in geology from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. From 1987 to 1994 he worked for the Petrobrás Research Center in large-scale fluid and heat flow within sedimentary basins. During this period, he was the principal architect and developer of the Petrobrás basin simulation system for risk assessment. In 1998, he received the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Wallace Pratt Award for the best paper published in AAPG Bulletin. His research interests are basin modeling, 3D representation of geological structures, 4D seismic reservoir simulation, parallel computing, data mining, and visualization in geosciences. Since 2000, Dr. Mello has served as the IBM Research Relationship Manager for the Chemical and Petroleum Industry sector.