Jianjun Zhu
Jianjun Zhu is Associate Professor and Vice Dean of the College of Mechanical and Transportation Engineering, China University of Petroleum (Beijing); Ph.D. and master’s supervisor. Discipline: Power Engineering and Engineering Thermophysics.
Biography
Young talent of the university. His work covers multiphase-flow modeling, artificial-lift system design and optimization, and oil and gas production data mining — including steady/transient multiphase flow, artificial-lift equipment and processes (ESP, plunger lift, jet pump, gas lift), and production big data with intelligent diagnosis. He was listed in the Elsevier–Stanford World’s Top 2% Scientists (single year, 2025–2026). He has led one NSFC Young Scientists Fund project, one NSFC General Program, one National Science and Technology Major Project sub-task, one CUP interdisciplinary frontier grant, open funds of national and Sinopec key labs, and more than 15 industry projects with CNPC, Sinopec and PipeChina. He has published over 100 papers (60+ SCI) with more than 3,500 Google Scholar citations (h-index 32, i10-index 61); given 21 oral talks and 4 invited talks at major international conferences; and published one translated book. Outstanding Reviewer for SPE Production & Operations (2022–2024) and SPE Journal (2025); First Prize, Science and Technology Progress Award, Chinese Nuclear Society (2025, 13/29).
Education and experience
- 2019–present, China University of Petroleum (Beijing)
- 2017–2019, Tulsa University Artificial Lift Projects (TUALP), Research Associate
- 2012–2017, Ph.D. in Petroleum Engineering, The University of Tulsa
- 2009–2012, M.S. in Power Engineering and Engineering Thermophysics, Tsinghua University
- 2005–2009, B.S. in Thermal Energy and Power Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing
Teaching
Fundamentals of Process Equipment Control; Modern Multiphase Flow Theory
Honors
- First Prize, Science and Technology Progress Award, Chinese Nuclear Society (2025, 13/29), for data-driven key technologies in in-situ leach uranium mining
- Elsevier–Stanford World’s Top 2% Scientists (single year, 2025–2026)
- Honorary Young Editorial Board Member, Petroleum Science (2025)
- Outstanding Reviewer, SPE Production & Operations (2022–2024) and SPE Journal (2025)
Professional service
- Advisory committee member, SPE Data Science and Engineering Analytics (DSEA) section (2020–2023)
- Young committee member, Heat and Mass Transfer Division, Chinese Society of Engineering Thermophysics
- SPE award committee member: Cedric K. Ferguson Award (2026–2029); Distinguished Achievement Award for Petroleum Engineering Faculty (2024–2027); Production & Operations Award (2025–2028); Projects, Facilities & Construction Award (2025–2028)
- SPE ATCE committee member (since 2022): Well Operations (2023); Production and Operations Subcommittee (since 2023)
- Reviewer for NSFC and the Czech Science Foundation
- Young editorial boards: Petroleum Science (appointed 2020; honorary 2025); Chemical Engineering & Machinery (since 2022); Third Young Editorial Board of China Petroleum Machinery (2027–2028)
- Guest editor: Energies / Applied Sciences (since 2021); Frontiers in Physics (since 2021)
- Member of SPE and ASME
- Regular reviewer for SPE Journal, Journal of Energy Storage, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, Geoenergy Science and Engineering, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Petroleum Science, Neural Computing and Applications, IEEE TIM, IEEE Sensors Journal, and others
Main collaborators
- On campus: Zhongli Ji, Yongxue Zhang, Yan Li, Hongwu Zhu, Jianfei Song and others
- External: Prof. Jianli Wang, Southeast University (co-PI); Haiwen Zhu and Hong-Quan Zhang, The University of Tulsa