Advisor: Ilya Tsvankin
Current Students
Graduates (since 2002)
Yanhua Liu
Home Country: China
Degree: PhD, Geophysics, 2023
Thesis: Full-waveform inversion of time-lapse seismic data using physics-based and data-driven techniques
Harpreet Sethi
Home Country: India
Degree: PhD, Geophysics, 2023
Thesis: Efficient modeling and waveform inversion of multicomponent seismic data for anisotropic media
Sagar Singh
Home Country: India
Degree: PhD, Geophysics, 2022
Thesis: Application of facies constraints and machine learning to full-waveform inversion for anisotropic media
Yogesh Arora
Home Country: India
Degree: PhD, Geophysics, 2020
Thesis: Processing and traveltime inversion of seismic diffractions in anisotropic media
Qifan Liu
Home Country: China
Degree: MS, Geophysics, 2019
Non-thesis program
Tong Bai
Home Country: China
Degree: PhD, Geophysics, 2019
Thesis: Modeling, imaging and waveform inversion in attenuative anisotropic media
Vladimir Li
Home Country: Russia
Degree: PhD, Geophysics, 2018
Thesis: Image-domain wavefield tomography in transversely isotropic media
Sonali Pattnaik
Home Country: India
Degree: MS, Geophysics, 2017
Thesis: Full waveform inversion with reflected waves for acoustic 2D VTI media
Hui Wang
Home Country: China
Degree: MS, Geophysics, 2016
Thesis: Seismic waveform modeling and inversion in acoustic orthorhombic media
Nishant Kamath
Home Country: India
Degree: PhD, Geophysics, 2016
Thesis: Full-waveform inversion in 2D VTI media
Bharath Shekar
Home Country: India
Degree: PhD, Geophysics, 2014
Thesis: Modeling, evaluation, and asymptotic analysis of attenuation anisotropy
Steve Smith
Home Country: USA
Degree: PhD, Geophysics, 2013
Thesis: Modeling and inversion of stress-induced multicomponent seismic time shifts
Pengfei Cai
Home Country: The People’s Republic of China
Degree: MS, Geophysics, 2013
Thesis: Joint migration velocity analysis of PP- and PS-waves for VTI media
Xiaoxiang Wang
Home Country: The People’s Republic of China
Degree: PhD, Geophysics, 2012
Thesis: Multiparameter TTI tomography of P-wave reflection and VSP data
Mamoru Takanashi
Home Country: Japan
Degree: PhD, Geophysics, 2011
Thesis: Anisotropic parameter estimation in the presence of a laterally heterogeneous overburden
Jia Yan
Home Country: The People’s Republic of China
Degree: PhD, Geophysics, 2010
Thesis: Wave-mode separation for elastic imaging in transversely isotropic media
(co-advisor with Paul Sava)
Yongxia Liu
Home Country: The People’s Republic of China
Degree: MSc., Geophysics, 2010
Thesis: Gaussian beam modeling in heterogeneous anisotropic media
Jyoti Behura
Home Country: India
Degree: PhD, Geophysics, 2009
Thesis: Estimation and analysis of attenuation anisotropy
Award: Best Paper in Geophysics, 2009
Rodrigo Felicio Fuck
Home Country: Brazil
Degree: PhD, Geophysics, 2008
Thesis: Modeling of seismic signatures for reservoir characterization: Applications involving fracture- and stress-induced seismic velocity anisotropy
Ivan Vasconcelos
Home Country: Brazil
Degree: PhD, Geophysics, 2007
Thesis: Interferometry in perturbed media
(co-advisor with Roel Snieder)
Xiaoxia (Ellen) Xu
Home Country: The People’s Republic of China
Degree: PhD, Geophysics, 2006
Thesis: Anisotropic geometrical-spreading correction and its application in azimuthal AVO analysis
Yapin Zhu
Home Country: The People’s Republic of China
Degree: PhD, Geophysics, 2006
Thesis: Seismic Wave Propagation in attenuative anisotropic media
Award: Best Student Poster Paper, 2005 SEG
Pawan Dewangan
Home Country: India
Degree: PhD, Geophysics, 2004
Thesis: Processing and applications of mode-converted waves using the PP+PS=SS method
Debashish Sarkar
Home Country: India
Degree: PhD, Geophysics, 2003
Thesis: Migration velocity analysis in factorized VTI media
Andrés Pech
Home Country: Mexico
Degree: PhD, Geophysics, 2003
Thesis: Velocity analysis for laterally heterogeneous anisotropic media
Petr Jílek
Home Country: The Czech Republic
Degree: PhD, Geophysics, 2002
Thesis: Modeling and inversion of converted-wave reflection coefficients in anisotropic media: A tool for quantitative AVO analysis