External research support
Primary sources have been (i) Simons Foundation, (ii) Division of Mathematical Sciences of the National Science Foundation, (iii) Division of Earth Sciences of the National Science Foundation, (iv) Department of Energy, Basic Energy Sciences program, (v) Oxy, (vi) the Geo-Mathematical Imaging Group, (vii) the consortium project on Seismic Inverse Methods for Complex Structures at the Center for Wave Phenomena (Colorado School of Mines), (viii) the US Civilian Research & Development Foundation jointly with Sergey V. Goldin at the Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and (ix) Ph.D. scholarships from industry.
| 2004-2005: |
Anisotropy and mantle flow beneath Japan from seismological observations and geodynamical modeling |
| Co-PIs: |
R.D. van der Hilst, B.H. Hager (MIT) |
| Funding: |
NSF EAR-0337697 |
| 2004-2005: |
Ph.D. scholarship (Curvelet decomposition of seismic migration) |
| Funding: |
Total E&P |
| 2004-2007: |
Multi-resolution lower mantle tomography |
| Co-PIs: |
R.D. van der Hilst (MIT) |
| Funding: |
NSF EAR-0409816 |
| 2004-2007: |
CMG: Development and application of inference methods for imaging neighborhoods of Earth’s core-mantle boundary with broad-band ScS and SKKS coda waves |
| Co-PIs: |
R.D. van der Hilst (MIT), G. Uhlmann (UW), L. Tenorio (CSM) |
| Funding: |
NSF EAR-0417891 |
| 2007: |
Geo-Mathematical Imaging Group |
| Funding: |
industry project |
| 2007-2010: |
CMG: Multi-scale (wave-equation) tomographic imaging with USArray waveform data |
| Co-PIs: |
R.D. van der Hilst (MIT), G. Uhlmann (UW), L. Tenorio (CSM), P. Ma (UIUC) |
| Funding: |
NSF DMS-0757814 |
| 2008-2011: |
CSEDI: Multi-scale analysis of mantle discontinuities using inverse scattering of SS waves and experimental mineral physics |
| Co-PIs: |
R.D. van der Hilst (MIT), S.-H. Shim (MIT) |
| Funding: |
NSF EAR-0724644 |
| 2008: |
Geo-Mathematical Imaging Group |
| Funding: |
industry project |
| 2009-2012: |
Stochastic and multiscale analysis of ambient-noise generated scattered waves and imaging of the earth |
| Co-PIs: |
K. Sølna (UCI) |
| Funding: |
NSF DMS-0908274 |
| 2009: |
Geo-Mathematical Imaging Group |
| Funding: |
industry project |
| 2010: |
Geo-Mathematical Imaging Group |
| Funding: |
industry project |
| 2010-2013: |
CMG: Nonlinear elastic-wave inverse scattering and tomography – from cracks to mantle convection |
| Co-PIs: |
R.D. van der Hilst (MIT), G. Uhlmann (UW), A. Vasy (Stanford) |
| Funding: |
NSF DMS-1025318 |
| 2011: |
Geo-Mathematical Imaging Group |
| Funding: |
industry project |
| 2012: |
Geo-Mathematical Imaging Group |
| Funding: |
industry project |
| 2013: |
Geo-Mathematical Imaging Group |
| Funding: |
industry project |
| 2013-2015: |
Industrial PostDoc |
| Funding: |
Total S.A. |
| 2014: |
Geo-Mathematical Imaging Group |
| Funding: |
industry project |
| 2015-2018: |
Inverse boundary value problems for scalar and elastic waves: Stability estimates and iterative reconstruction |
| Funding: |
NSF DMS-1559587 |
| 2015–2018: |
MATH + X |
| Funding: |
Simons Foundation |
| 2016–2018: |
Industrial PostDoc |
| Funding: |
Total S.A. |
| 2016: |
MATH + X Symposium on Seismology and Inverse Problems |
| Funding: |
Simons Foundation |
| 2016: |
Geo-Mathematical Imaging Group at Rice |
| Funding: |
Industry project |
| 2017: |
MATH + X Symposium on Data Science and Inverse Problems in Geophysics |
| Funding: |
Simons Foundation |
| 2017: |
Geo-Mathematical Imaging Group at Rice |
| Funding: |
Industry project |
| 2018: |
MATH + X Symposium on Inverse Problems and Deep Learning in Space Exploration |
| Funding: |
Simons Foundation |
| 2018–2022: |
Seismology- and geodesy-based inverse problems crossing scales, with scattering, anisotropy and nonlinear elasticity |
| Funding: |
NSF DMS-1815143 |
| 2018–2023: |
MATH + X |
| Funding: |
Simons Foundation |
| 2018–2020: |
Industrial PostDoc (NCE 2022) |
| Funding: |
Total S.A. |
| 2018: |
Geo-Mathematical Imaging Group at Rice |
| Funding: |
Industry project |
| 2019: |
MATH + X Symposium on Inverse Problems and Deep Learning, Mitigating Natural Hazards |
| Funding: |
Simons Foundation |
| 2019: |
Geo-Mathematical Imaging Group at Rice |
| Funding: |
Industry project |
| 2019–2023: |
Deep learning for forecasting of fracture and fault evolution |
| Co-PIs: |
R. Baraniuk (Rice) |
| Funding: |
DOE DE-SC0020345 |
| 2020: |
MATH + X Symposium on Matter under Extreme Conditions in Solar Giants and Exoplanets, Inverse Problems and Deep Learning |
| Funding: |
Simons Foundation |
| 2020: |
Geo-Mathematical Imaging Group at Rice |
| Funding: |
Industry project |
| 2020: |
Unrestricted gift |
| Funding: |
Google |
| 2021: |
Geo-Mathematical Imaging Group at Rice |
| Funding: |
Industry project |
| 2021–2024: |
Recovery of material parameters using friction laws associated with earthquakes, interseismic slip and tidal deformation |
| Funding: |
NSF DMS-2108175 |
| 2022–2025: |
Topological deep learning, causal inference and data-driven forecasting for subsurface multiscale multiphysics systems |
| Co-PIs: |
R. Baraniuk (Rice) |
| Funding: |
DOE DE-SC0020345 |
| 2022: |
Geo-Mathematical Imaging Group at Rice |
| Funding: |
Industry project |
| 2022: |
MATH + X Symposium on Dynamos, Planetary Exploration and General Relativity, Inverse Problems and Machine Learning |
| Funding: |
Simons Foundation |
| 2023: |
Geo-Mathematical Imaging Group at Rice |
| Funding: |
Industry project |
| 2024–2027: |
Inverse problems based on seismology and magnetohydrodynamics of solar system gas giants |
| Funding: |
NSF DMS-2407456 |
| 2024–2029: |
Scientific ML-supported subsurface characterization in physical function spaces |
| Funding: |
Oxy |
