Advisor: Ilya Tsvankin

Current Students

Ahmed Ahmed

Home Country: Egypt
Degree Program: PhD, Geophysics
Biography

 

Maksat Jazbay

Home Country: Kazakhstan
Degree Program: PhD, Geophysics
Biography

Ashish Kumar

Home Country: India
Degree Program: PhD, Geophysics
Biography

 

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