Summary
Steve Chen is a petroleum engineering specialist with over a decade of upstream R&D experience, currently leading multidisciplinary projects at Aramco spanning EOR/IOR, CO2 sequestration, flow assurance, and chemical scale-up. He combines deep polymer chemistry expertise from a PhD with hands-on development of oilfield chemicals and formulations for drilling, production and heavy-oil upgrading, and has repeatedly translated lab-scale syntheses into field-ready solutions. Previously he led chemical flooding and additive R&D at Sinopec and contributed advanced polymer and surfactant characterization work in academia, giving him a rare blend of fundamental science and practical field deployment. Based in Beijing, he is comfortable managing cross-functional teams and complex projects while staying curious about emerging technologies, as reflected by his appetite for unknown technical domains.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering Science (M.Eng.Sci.), Polymer Materials, Master of Engineering Science (M.Eng.Sci.), Polymer Materials at Monash University
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Materials Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Materials Science and Engineering at Tianjin University
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Polymer Chemistry and Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Polymer Chemistry and Physics at University of Waterloo
English, Chinese