Bo Zhang
Bo Zhang is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Alberta and a registered professional engineer (P.Eng) in Canada. He is the founder and principal investigator (PI) of the at the University of Alberta. Bo is also affiliated with Reservoir Geomechanics Research Group and Centre of Computational Geostatistics at University of Alberta. Since he became a faculty in 2022, he has successfully acquired over $5 million research grants to support his multi-discilinary research in subsurface energy and resource development. Currently, Bo is supervising a research group of over 25 members, including 4 post-doc fellows, 11 PhD students, 2 MSc students, 2 data scientists and 5 visiting PhD scholars from geotechnical engineering, mining engineering, petroleum engineering, and computer science at University of Alberta
Recent Publications
Erten, G. E., Zhang, B., Qiao, S., Saleh, W. B., and Boisvert, J. (2026). Deep Reinforcement Learning Optimizing for Geological CO2 Storage Considering Geomechanical and Leakage Risks. Geoenergy Science and Engineering, 214483.
Saleh, W. B., and Zhang, B. (2025). Reducing geological uncertainty through coupled flow-geomechanics based surrogate models and rejection sampling of CO2 plume prediction. Geoenergy Science and Engineering, 246, 213652.
Zhang, B., Deisman N., Chalaturnyk, R. and Boisvert, J., (2024). Numerical Upscaling of anisotropic failure criteria in heterogeneous reservoirs. Engineering Geology, 107455.