UTAM Graduate Students (2008-2009)

Chaiwoot Boonyasiriwat      Ge Zhan             Naoshi Aoki         Qiong Wu             Samuel Brown                    Shengdong Liu    Simin Huang        Wei Dai   Weiping Cao                       Xin Wang            Yanwei Xue

Chaiwoot Boonyasiriwat

M.S. in Geophysics & Ph.D. in Computing  Chaiwoot got his B.S. degree in Physics from Mahidol University, Thailand, and hist M.S. degree in Computational Engineering and Science, University of Utah. Currently, he is pursuing his Ph.D. degree in Computing and M.S. degree in Geophysics at the University of Utah. His research interests are seismic inversion and imaging. He is also interested in numerical simulation, fixed-point computation, and scientific visualization. Badminton is his favorite sport.   chaiwoot@yahoo.com   Resume   http://utam.gg.utah.edu/chaiwoot/

Ge Zhan

Ph.D. in Geophysics  Ge received his M.S. degree in Geophysics from China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing), China. During his graduate study, he worked as a research assistant in the State Key Laboratory of Coal Resources and Safe Mining in China for three years. His thesis dealt with 3D3C seismic data imaging and coalbed methane detection. Ge joined UTAM in August 2007 and his current project is time domain waveform tomography. Music and photograph are his two biggest interests.   ge.zhan(AT)utah.edu   Resume

Naoshi Aoki

M.S. in Geophysics  Naoshi earned his B.S. degree in Earth Sciences from Chiba University, Japan. He has been employed by Japan Petroleum Exploration Co., Ltd (JAPEX) and joined UTAM in December 2006. He is pursuing his M.S. degree in Geophysics at the University of Utah and working on his M.S. thesis "Fast least squares migration with a deblurring filter". He loves taking photos of his son "Tomo", where he calls it "real-tomography".   naoshi.aoki@gmail.com   Resume

Qiong Wu

Ph.D. in Geophysics  Qiong got her bachelor degree in geophysics in China University of Geoscience (Beijing) and master degree in geophysics in Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing China. Currentlly, she is pursuing her master degree in geophysics at the University of Utah. Her research interests are seismic imaging and data processing. Hiking and pingpong are her favorite sports.   u0574697@utah.edu   Resume

Samuel Brown

Ph.D. in Geophysics  Samuel received his B.S. in Computer Science and his M.S. in Computational Engineering from the University of Utah in 2003 and 2007 respectively. He enjoyed a short career as a jazz guitarist from 1995-2000, and worked in the high-performance computing industry as both a software and hardware engineer from 2000-2007. While pursuing his Ph.D. in Geophysics, Sam has been an intern with ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips and Total. Samuel's research interests include pattern recognition and novel modeling/migration techniques. Samuel is an expert mountain biker and an adequate alpine skier. He and his wife Cecilia enjoy collecting fine wines and are avid wine tourists, regularly visiting the wine regions of the United States and Europe.   samuel.brown@utah.edu

Shengdong Liu

M.S. in Geophysics  Nothing to say...   shengdliu@gmail.com   Resume

Simin Huang

Ph.D. in Geophysics  Simin got her B.S. degree in Geophysics, University of Science and Technology of China. She is now pursuing Ph.D degree in University of Utah. Her current research work is about demultiple in VSP data and least squares migration. Her main research interest is in seismic imaging.   huang.simin@utah.edu   Resume

Wei Dai

Ph.D. in Geophysics   For my master degree, my research is focused on the Earth’s deep structure and motion. We have collected a large dataset of high quality seismic doublets. With our data, we have been studying the Earth’s inner core super-rotation, inner core boundary topography, outer core motion, and also we have evaluated earthquake location precision from different earthquake catalogs. For the Ph.D. degree, I have been working on 3D least-squares migration with a deblurring filter to speed up convergence. Results of synthetic tests are encouraging. With the deblurring filter, I can accelerate convergence of LSM by 2-5 times and get acceptable images after only a few iterations. Future work will be focused on tests of field data.   wei.dai@utah.edu   Resume

Weiping Cao

Ph.D. in Geophysics  Weiping got his bachelor degree in geophysics in China University of Petroleum (East China) and master degree in geophysics in China University of Petroleum (Beijing). Currentlly, he is pursuing his Ph.D. degree in geophysics at the University of Utah. His research interests are seismic imaging and data processing. Badminton and pingpong are his favorite sports.   caoweiping_2004@yahoo.com.cn   Resume

Xin Wang

Ph.D. in Geophysics  Xin got his B.S. in Geophysics from University of Science and Technology of China, and M.S. degree in Geophysics from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He was enrolled in UTAM Ph.D. program in fall 2008. His research interests are seismic modeling and imaging, and his current project is about simultaneous source data. Traveling, music and soccer are his most entertainments out of the research.   xin.wang@utah.edu   Resume

Yanwei Xue

Ph.D. in Geophysics   Yanwei got his B.S. and M.S. in Geophysics from University of Science and Technology of China. He was enrolled in UTAM Ph.D. program in fall 2005. His research interests include: De-noising (Multiples, Surface waves, Scattering waves), Seismic regularization and datuming, high quality imaging (e.g. RTM). Traveling, hiking, pingpang and badminton are his most favorite sports.   yanwei.xue@utah.edu   Resume