● Coupling MC molecular simulation with flow simulators in porous media

● Using MC and MD in modeling shale gas sorption and transport processes

• Sun S. and Salama A. Accelerating Monte Carlo Molecular Simulations by Reweighting and Reconstructing Markov Chains: Extrapolation of Canonical Ensemble Averages and Second Derivatives to Different Temperature and Density Conditions. Journal of Computational Physics, 270, 70-85, 2014.
• Kadoura A. Salama A. and Sun S. A Conservative and a Hybrid Early Rejection Schemes for Accelerating Monte Carlo Molecular Simulation. Molecular Physics, in press, 2014.
• El Gharamti M. Kadoura A. Valstar J. Sun S. and Hoteit I. Constraining a Compositional Flow Model with Flow-Chemical Data using an Ensemble-Based Kalman Filter. Water Resources Research, 50, 2444–2467, 2014.

• PhD, 2011-Current
  Earth Sciences and Engnieering
  King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, KSA
  
• MS, 2009-2011
  Chemical Engineering
  King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, KSA
  
• BS, 2005-2009
  Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering
  Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey

• Active member and served as student chapter president in 2012 at Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)

Academic Excellence Award at KAUST, Earth Sciences and Engineering 

Earth Sciences and Engineering (ErSE)

Computational Transport Phenomena Laboratory (CTPL)