Mohamed Yousef Soliman[6] is a professor and the former chairperson of the department of Petroleum Engineering at Texas Tech University.

[citation needed] He obtained his bachelor's degree in petroleum engineering from Cairo University in 1971.

He received his master's degree and doctorate degrees, both in Petroleum engineering, from Stanford University in 1975 and 1978 His M. S. Thesis was "Rheological Properties of Emulsion Flowing Through Capillary Tubes Under Turbulent Conditions,"; his PhD thesis, "Numerical Modeling of Thermal Recovery Processes."

He holds 21 patents on Hydraulic fracturing operations and analysis, testing and conformance applications,[7] and is an author or co-author of over 170 technical papers and articles in areas of fracturing, reservoir engineering, well test analysis, conformance, and numerical simulation.

He has authored several books for internal use at Halliburton, including Stimulation and Reservoir Engineering Aspects of Horizontal Wells, Well Test Analysis, Hydraulic Fracturing, and chapters in Conformance, Stimulation, and FracPac.