Khashayar Ahmadi is an oil and gas engineering Ph.D. student at the Memorial University of Newfoundland. He holds a Bachelor's degree in petroleum engineering from the University of Tehran and a Master's degree in oil and gas engineering from the Memorial University of Newfoundland. He has worked as a laboratory assistant in the Research Institute of Petroleum Industry of Iran (RIPI) to enhance heavy oil recovery using hot solvents. During his master's program project, he analyzed and simulated the effect of low salinity water on oil recovery using CMG-GEM.