Ulysses Mello
Channel: Panorama
Date: 24/09/2014

Ulisses T. Mello is the Director of IBM Research – Brazil (BRL) with sites in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. He is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and he led the Smarter Natural Resources & Discovery area at BRL until 2012. Ulisses is also an IBM Global Research Executive for the Chemicals and Petroleum Industry sector. Prior to 2010, Ulisses was a researcher and manager of the Petroleum and Energy Analytics group in the Business Analytics and Mathematical Sciences dept. at IBM T. J. Watson Center in NY, USA, where he was responsible for the development of strategic thought leadership in Chemicals & Petroleum with focus on computational geosciences which intersects aspects of geology, geophysics, applied math, and computational sciences and addresses multi-scale geological processes, algorithms, methods and software design. 
 
Ulisses holds a Ph.D. (1994) and M.A. (1992) in Geology from Columbia University, a M.Sc. in Geology from Federal University of Ouro Preto (1987), and B.Sc. (1983) in Geology from University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.  Prior to joining IBM, he worked for the Petrobras R&D and his research work was focused on the numerical modeling of geological process including large-scale fluid and heat flow within sedimentary basins for exploration risk assessment. His research interests are large-scale basin modeling, hydrogeological modeling, digital oil fields, integrated operation optimization, data assimilation, unstructured meshing, parallel computing, advanced water management, and computational geosciences. Ulisses is member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), American Meteorological Society (AMS) , American Geophysical Union (AGU), Brazilian Association of Petroleum Geologists  (ABGP), European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers (EAGE), Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), Society of Exploration Geophysicists  (SEG), and New York Academy of Sciences. He is also a member of the IBM Academy of Technology and IBM Industry Academy.

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