Farid is a Senior Scientist and Subject Matter Expert (SME) with Chevron's Area 52 Technology

- ETC, Santa Fe, NM. He  aims  to  develop  and  design  improved  technologies and methods, 

devices/tools, data processing, quality control  and  modeling  to  support  and  complement

ongoing and future research and development projects in oilfield applications. 

 

Farid received the B.Sc. degree in Physics from the Faculty of Sciences 2, Lebanese University,

Beirut, Lebanon,  in  2000,  and  the  M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in  biomedical engineering from

the  University  Claude  Bernard  Lyon 1, Lyon, France, in 2001 and  2004, respectively. He was

awarded  fellowships  from the  City of  Lyon,  France,  to continue  his M.Sc. research studies

at  the   Nuclear   Magnetic   Resonance   Imaging  Laboratory,  Lyon,  France,   as  well  as  the

National  Institute   of  Health  and  Medical  Research   (INSERM),  Lyon,  to  pursue  his  Ph.D.

thesis research at the Laboratory of Therapeutic Applications of Ultrasound.

 

His  research  has  focused  on  the  development  of  novel  tools  and  devices  in  acoustics, 

biomedical  imaging and  materials research  spanning  ultrasound characterization, medical

and  nondestructive  imaging,  particle  manipulation,  physical optics and numerical modeling. The developed techniques are  based  on  (non)linear  wave motion in  acoustics, such  as  the  parametric  mixing,  vibro-acoustography, shear-wave dispersion  vibrometry, ultrasonic  interferometry,  resonance  spectroscopy,  (non)linear  acoustic  wave  scattering  with forward  and  inverse  problems  to  determine  the  acoustic  signatures/ resonances  of  heterogeneities  and  elongated objects,  acoustic  wave  propagation  in  porous  media, investigation  of  the  properties of acoustical and optical limited-diffracting  beams  such as Bessel  vortex, trigonometric,  or spiral beams, the creation/design of metamaterials using the force  of ultrasonic waves,  acoustic  radiation  forces  and  torques, and the characterization of composite materials using X-ray micro-computed tomography and scanning/transmission electron microscopy. 

 

Farid held an Associate Professorship in Biomedical Engineering with the Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering, Ultrasound Research Lab at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States, and a Director's Fellowship from the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM, United States. He is currently an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, a Program Committee Member, and a Senior Member of the IEEE.

 

Farid is the recipient of the 2005 Lyon City Young Investigator Award, the 2007 Edward C. Kendall (Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine, 1950) award from the Mayo Clinic, the Director's Fellowship from LANL, as well as seven travel awards for participation in international meetings. In September 2007, Farid was bestowed with the Lebanese National Order of the Cedar presidential Medal of Honor.