Center for Wave Phenomena

Wave Phenomena cwpcsm@dix.mines.edu	CWP Students, Fall 2009
	Filippo Broggini	Myoung Jae Kwon	Bharath Shekar
	Thomas Cullison	Luming Liang	Steve Smith
	Chris Engelsma	Yongxia Liu	Mamoru Takanashi
	Yuanzhong Fan	Simon Luo	Xiaoxiang Wang
	Clement Fleury	Yong Ma	Ran Xuan
	Farnoush Forghani-Arani	Derek Parks	Jia Yan
	Jeff Godwin	Francesco Perrone	Tongning Yang


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Filippo Broggini
Filippo received a BSc in Telecommunications Engineering from Politecnico di Milano (2004) and then earned a MSc in Applied and Exploration Geophysics from Università degli Studi di Milano (2007). During his thesis work, he developed a software to calculate synthetic seismograms using the reflectivity method. Filippo joined CWP in August 2008 and is currently working with Roel Snieder. Filippo's biggest interests are music, travel, computer science and sports. He thinks that Afterhours is the greatest band in the world.

Thomas Cullison
Degree Program: M.Sc, Mathematical and Computer Sciences Home Country: USA email: tculliso@mines.ed u Thomas completed undergraduate degrees in geophysical engineering and computer science at CSM (2009). For the past three summers, he has interned with Hess, developing parallel GPU code for seismic imaging. Thomas is currently working on his master's in computer science. He joined CWP in May 2009, and is co-advised by Paul Sava. His current research interests include high performance, parallel, and GPU computing; seismic imaging; and image processing and analysis algorithms. His other interests include brewing beer, bowling, reading, watching movies and cartoons, and listening to music.

Chris Engelsma
Degree Program: M.Sc., Geophysics Home Country: USA email: cengelsm@mines.edu Chris Engelsma graduated from CSM in 2009 with a BSc in geophysical engineering. During his undergraduate study, he held two internships with WesternGeco Schlumberger, working as a seismic data processor, primarily in depth imaging. He also assisted in the creation of geophysical educational software. Chris joined CWP in May 2009 and is advised byDave Hale, and is currently highly interested in image processing. His other interests include playing guitar, listening to music, reading good books and programming.

Yuanzhong Fan
Degree Program: Ph.D., Geophysics Home Country: The People's Republic of China email: yfan@mines.edu Yuanzhong Fan received a bachelor’s degree in physics from Lanzhou University, China, in 2003, followed by a master’s degree in physics from the University of Manitoba, Canada, in 2007. In CWP, he is working on the source distribution effect in interferometry for both wave and diffusion problems with Prof. Roel Snieder. Currently, he is working on 3-D CSEM interferometry by multi-dimensional deconvolution. He held summer internships in both 2008 and 2009 with Shell, Houston, working on the application of interferometry in marine CSEM.

Clement Fleury
Degree Program: Ph.D., Geophysics Home Country: France email: cfleury@Mines.edu Clement is visiting CWP for six months as part of his MSc research project. He is working towards both his French 'Ecole d'Ingenieur' degree from ESPCI (Ecole Superieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielles) and his MSc in Physical Acoustics from the University Paris Diderot. Clement's research interest is wave propagation in complex media. He is working with Roel Snieder on seismic interferometry. His hobbies are sports in general (volleyball, handball, rugby, skiing, . . . ) and jazz music.

Farnoush Forghani-Arani
Degree Program: M.Sc., Geophysics Home Country: Iran email: fforghan@mines.edu Farnoush received a bachelor’s degree in atomic physics from Shiraz University, Iran, in 1997 and a master’s degree in geophysics from Tehran Azad University in 2002. There, she worked on integration methods for reservoir characterization. Now in CWP, she is working with Professor Roel Snieder studying the extracted surface-wave and body-wave Green’s function from correlation interferometry. Summer 2008, Farnoush interned with ION Geophysical, continuing research on surface-wave suppression using interferometry. Farnoush’s hobbies are hiking, biking, astronomy and playing piano.

Jeff Godwin
Degree Program: M.Sc., Geophysics Home Country: USA email: jgodwin@miines.edu Jeff Godwin graduated from CSM in 2009 with a BSc in geophysical engineering. While an undergraduate, he held summer employment with IHS (software testing), Landmark Graphics (software development), and Marathon Oil (geophysicist). As a CSM senior design project member, he assisted with the development of online geophysical education software. Jeff's research interests include microseismic event location, medical imaging, and unconventional geophysics. His advisor is Paul Sava. Outside of geophysics, Jeff's hobbies include hiking, backpacking, swing dancing, robotics and politics.

Myoung Jae Kwon
Degree Program: Ph.D., Geophysics Home Country: South Korea email: mykwon@mines.edu Myoung Jae Kwon received his B.S. degree in geology and M.S. degree in geophysics from Seoul National University. His thesis topic was DC resistivity inversion with the application of reciprocity theorem. Jae worked as a geophysical engineer for several years in Korea and Libya, where he participated in many geotechnical, environmental projects. Jae is a recipient of the SEG scholarship. In summer 2008, he interned with Schlumberger-Doll Research Center, where he participated in the joint inversion project and worked on 2.5-D frequency domain finite difference elastic wave modeling. His current research interests are the integration of seismic and electromagnetic data, and the application of inverse scattering series for CSEM. Jae is working with Roel Snieder. He enjoys listening to music, programming, and reading geography and history books..

Luming Liang
Degree Program: Ph.D., Mathematical and Computer Sciences Home: The People's Republic of China email: lliang@mines.edu Home webpage Luming received his M. Eng. (2008) and BSc (2005) in Computer Science from Central South University, Changsha. Luming joined CWP in August 2008 and he is working with Dave Hale in seismic data interpolation computer graphics and seismic iamge processing.. His current research areas include computer aided geometric design, computer graphics, image processing and visualization. Luming's biggest interests are playing soccer, reading, enjoying music, watching movies, and playing computer games with others.

Yongxia Liu
Degree Program: Ph.D., Geophysics Home: The People's Republic of China email: yliu@mines.edu Yongxia Liu received a BS in geophysics from Jilin University (2004) and a MS degree (2007) from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics , Chinese Academy of Sciences (2007). Her research projects focused on numerical simulation statistic media using the finite-difference method and multi-component reverse-time migration in anisotropic media using the pseudo-spectral method. As a CWP student, she works on Gaussian beam modeling in heterogeneous anisotropic media with Prof. Ilya Tsvankin. During the summer of 2009, Yongxia worked with N. Ross Hill on a new beam migration method for complex structures at Chevron in Houston. Yongxia likes a variety of sports including swimming, yoga and badminton.

Simon Luo
Degree Program: Ph.D., Geophysics Home: USA email: sluo@mines.edu Simon graduated in 2008 from the University of California, Berkeley, with a bachelor’s degree in physics. He joined CWP in August 2009 and is currently working with Professor Dave Hale. Aside from his studies in geophysics, Simon is also interested in computer programming and cosmology. His hobbies include snowboarding and golf.

Yong Ma
Degree Program: Ph.D., Geophysics Home Country: The People's Republic of China email: yma@mines.edu Yong received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in acoustics from the Institute of Acoustics, Nanjing University (NJU), China in 2004 and 2007. His work at NJU focused on nonlinear ultrasound propagation in biologic tissue and applications of nonlinear ultrasound to medical imaging and therapy. His thesis was entitled “Non-invasive estimation of temperature elevation and lesions in high intensity focus ultrasound (HIFU) treatment.” Yong joined CWP in August 2007 and has worked on multi-scale velocity heterogeneity effects on wave-equation migration with Dr. Paul Sava. In summer 2009, Yong interned at ConocoPhillips, Houston, working with Zhaobo (Joe) Meng on a full waveform inversion project.

Derek Parks
Degree Program: M.Sc., Mathematical and Computer Sciences Home Country: USA email: dparks@mines.edu Derek graduated from CSM in 2005 with a B.S. in Computer Science. After leaving Mines, he worked as a developer for a small consulting company. Derek returned to CSM in 2006 to pursue his interest in computer graphics. He has researched the creation of surface models from seismic data, and is currently doing research in the area of 3D interactive subsurface modeling with advisor Dave Hale. Derek will be an intern with ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company during summer 2009. His interests include geometry processing, machine learning, skiing, and skydiving.

Francesco Perrone
Degree Program: Ph.D., Geophysics Home Country: Italy email: fperrone@mines.edu Francesco received a BSc. in telecommunication from Politecnico di Milano, Italy in 2004, from where he also earned a MSc in 2007. During his master's studies, he worked with the geophysical research team, and his thesis dealt with high-resolution imaging in Kirchhoff migration by means of least-squares inversion and sparsity constraint. Francesco joined CWP in August 2008 under advisor Paul Sava. Included in Francesco's interests are listening to classical music, playing the piano, swimming and reading novels.

Bharath Shekar
Degree Program: Ph.D., Geophysics Home Country: India email: bshekar@mines.edu Bharath graduated in 2008 from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, with an Integrated MSc degree in Exploration Geophysics. He joined CWP in August 2008 and is working with Prof. Ilya Tsvankin. “The Outdoors” is Bharath's passion. His other interests are sports, listening to classic rock, solving cryptic crosswords and reading good books.

Steve Smith
Degree Program: Ph.D., Geophysics Home Country: USA email: stesmith@mines.edu Steve Smith (MS, Acoustics, Penn State University; BS, Engineering Physics and BA, Music, University of Colorado) did his MS thesis work in virtual acoustic source synthesis. Steve has worked as an R&D engineer for Shure microphones and audio electronics (www.shure.com) in steered beamforming systems, digital signal processing (DSP), and speech processing/recognition. He also has worked as a professional research assistant for the theoretical geophysics group at the University of Colorado, Boulder. At CSM, Steve’s research includes modeling and inversion of seismic data around nuclear waste disposal tunnels. He is currently working on time-lapse seismic induced seismic anisotropy, AVO, and geomechanical inversion around producing reservoirs. His interests also include migration/imaging and seismic application of rock physics. When not working, Steve practices judo.

Mamoru Takanashi
Degree Program: Ph.D., Geophysics Home Country: Japan email: mtakanas@mines.edu Mamoru earned his BS and MS degrees in laboratory anisotropy measurements at Chiba University, Japan. For the past ten years, he has been employed by Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation (JOGMEC), in charge of imaging and anisotropy research projects for oil and gas fields. Mamoru joined CWP in August 2008 and is working with Prof. Ilya Tsvankin. His current research interest is in the characteristics of seismic moveout velocity in various geological settings.

Xiaoxiang Wang
Degree Program: Ph.D., Geophysics Home Country: The People's Republic of China email: xwang@mines.edu Xiaoxiang earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees in geophysics from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). He joined CWP in August 2006, and has worked with Prof. Ilya Tsvankin on the interval anisotropic parameter estimation using velocity-independent layer stripping. In summer 2008, Xiaoxiang interned with Chevron Energy Technology Company, where his work involved testing and streamlining workflows of anisotropic tomography. He also interned with the Subsurface Technology group at ConocoPhillips in summer 2009, and his internship experience there helped to kick off his Ph.D. thesis study on tomographic velocity analysis in TTI media.

Ran Xuan
Degree Program: M.Sc., Geophysics Home Country: The People's Republic of China email: rxuan@mines.edu Ran earned her bachelor’s degree in geophysics from China University of Geosciences (Beijing) (CUGB). During her undergraduate study, she completed a project on refraction residual static correction by using the traditional method of reflection residual static correction. Ran joined CWP in January 2008, and is is working on the probability of micro-earthquake location using Bayesian theory. Her advisor is Paul Sava and co-advisor is Roel Snieder.

Jia Yan
Degree Program: Ph.D. Geophysics Home Country: The People's Republic of China email: jyan@dix.mines.edu Jia earned her BS degree in solid geophysics with honors from Peking University in 2003. Her thesis research focused on using the S-wave receiver function to study the velocity structure under the MDJ (Mudanjiang) seismic station. Jia attended Boston College for her master’s degree, studying the local earthquake source parameters in the New England area using waveform inversion. Jia joined CWP in August 2005 and has worked on AVO-sensitive velocity analysis for wide-azimuth data with Ilya Tsvankin. In Summer 2007, Jia interned with GX Technology, Houston. She is now working jointly with Dr. Paul Sava and Dr. Ilya Tsvankin on anisotropic elastic imaging. In summer 2008, she interned at BP, Houston, working primarily with Ray Abma on an independent simultaneous sources project. At Exxonmobil, summer 2009, she did an imaging project on a multicomponent field dataset. Jia enjoys Colorado hiking, skiing, and rafting.

Tongning (Tony) Yang
Degree Program: Ph.D. Geophysics Home Country: The People's Republic of China email: tyang@mines.edu Tongning earned his B.S. degree in geophysics from Tongji University, Shanghai, China. During his undergraduate study, he completed a project on velocity analysis using Kirchhoff prestack time migration. His thesis was titled "High-resolution Parabolic Radon Transform Seismic Interpolation." At CWP, he is working with Prof. Paul Sava on wave-equation migration velocity analysis (WEMVA), using extended imaging conditions. In summer 2009, Tongning interned with StatoilHydro in Norway, working on the implementation of WEMVA based on the time-shift imaging condition. In his spare time, Tongning likes climbing, swimming and playing soccer. He also loves to cook, especially Chinese food.