Ph.D. in Geophysics, University of California, Riverside, 2022
B.S. in Geology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2017
Research projects: Body-wave tomography imaging of the Alaska megathrust
Graduate Student, Michigan State University, 2019–
B.S. major in Mineral Exploration, China University of Geosciences, minor in Computer Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Techonology, 2019
Research projects: Lithospheric structure of the East African Rift System, Alaska earthquake detection and relocation using machine learning techniques
Graduate Student, Michigan State University, 2020–
B.S. in Geophysics, University of Science and Technology of China, 2020
Research projects: Seismic attenuation and earthquake stress drop in the Tonga and South America subduction zones
Graduate Student, Michigan State University, 2021–
M.S. in Solid Earth Geophysics, Nanjing University, 2021
B.S. in Geology (Geophysics), Nanjing University, 2018
Research project: Seismic attenuation in the Alaska subduction zone
Dr. Fan Wang, PhD Student, 2018–2024, current position: postdoc researcher at the University of Michigan
PhD Dissertation: Seismic studies of the Alaska and Tonga subduction zones with body-wave tomography
Dr. Ziyi Xi, PhD Student (co-advised by Dr. Min Chen), 2018–2024, current position: software engineer at Google LLC
PhD Dissertation: Seismic studies of western Pacific subduction zones with high-performance computing and deep learning
Dr. Jiaqi Li, Postdoc Researcher, 2023-2024, current position: Assistant Professor at Peking University
Grace Ward, MSU Undergrad Researcher, 2022, current position: graduate student at the Northern Arizona University
Dr. Yi Luo, Visiting Graduate Student from Peking University, 2021–2022, current position: AutoNavi Software Co., Ltd.
Dr. Dongdong Tian, Postdoc Researcher, 2018–2021, current position: Associate Professor at the China University of Geosciences
Dr. Nooshin Saloor, Postdoc Researcher, 2020–2021
Aracely Garcia, GeoCaFES intern from UTEP, 2021 summer, current position: undergraduate student at UTEP
Max Fierro, MSU Undergrad Researcher, 2019 summer, graduated from MSU in 2021
Sydney Gable, MSU Undergrad Researcher, 2019–2020, current position: graduate student at the University of Michigan
Dzharif Tahamat, MSU Undergrad Researcher, 2019–2020, graduated from MSU in 2020
Trevor Kohne, MSU Undergrad Researcher, 2019 summer, graduated from MSU in 2020
Dr. Travis Alongi, UCSD Undergrad Researcher, 2017 IRIS summer intern from UC Santa Cruz, current position: postdoc researcher at USGS
2024 group photo
Left to right: Zhuoran Zhang, Yaqi Jie, Shawn Wei, Fan Wang, Andrew Birkey, Yurong Zhang
Background: The Banded Iron Formation in front of the MSU Natural Science Building
Left to right: Zhuoran Zhang, Yurong Zhang, Shawn Wei, Ziyi Xi, Fan Wang
Background: MSU Breslin Center where the 2024 Spring Commencement happened
2019 group photo
Left to right: Dongdong Tian, Shawn Wei, Sydney Gable, and Fan Wang
Background: Sydney's poster at the AGU 2019 Fall Meeting in San Francisco
Wei's lab in the Natural Science Building, MSU