EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• • 2025/01 – now: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica

  • 2023/11 – 2024/12: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dept. of Geosciences, National Taiwan University

  • 2021/10 – 2023/10: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dept. Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Brown University

  • 2021/08 – 2021/09: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica

  • 2020/08 – 2021/07: Substitute military serviceman, National Conscription Agency, Ministry of the Interior

  • 2018/08 – 2019/06: Visiting student, Dept. Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Brown University (Ministry of Science and Technology Overseas Project for Post Graduate Research)

  • 2015/09 – 2020/07: Ph.D., Dept. Geosciences, National Taiwan University

  • 2013/09 – 2015/06: M.S., Dept. Geophysics, Nation Central University

  • 2012/07 – 2012/08: Member of summer undergraduate research program, Inst. Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica

  • 2009/09 – 2013/06: B.S., Dept. Earth Sciences, National Central University

PROGRAM LANGUAGES

Fortran, Matlab, Python, GMT, C shell,  awk shell,  SAC

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Seismic/Ocean waves: 

  • • short-to-long period surface waves; teleseismic scattered body waves; infragravity wave; T-wave

• Seismic imaging techniques: 

  • • ambient noise tomography; two-plane wave tomography; receiver function

• Seismic structure: 

  • • oceanic lithosphere-asthenosphere structure; subduction zone; volcanic structure; sediment structure

PUBLICATIONS

• • Chen, K.-X*., & Gung, Y. (2025). Linking ocean storms and Earth's hum excitation: Seasonal infragravity wave observations in the Pacific Ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 130(8), e2025JC022342. (pdf)(sup.)

  • Chen, K.-X*., Kuo, B. Y., Lin, T. J., Lin, P. Y. P., Gung, Y., Tan, E., et al., (2024). Shear-dominant continental rifting in northern Ryukyu revealed by ambient noise tomography. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 129,e2024JB029448. (pdf)(sup.)

  • Chen, K.-X*., & Forsyth, D. W. (2024). On the origin of the Hawaiian Swell: Lithosphere and asthenosphere seismic structure from Rayleigh wave dispersion. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 129, e2024JB029407. (pdf)(sup.) (Download this model !)

  • Cheng, C. Y., Kuo-Chen, H., Brown, D., Yao, H., Chen, K. X., & Ma, K. F. (2024). High-resolution 3D ambient noise tomography around the Meishan-Chiayi active fault system of western Taiwan. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences: X, 100182. (pdf)

  • Chen, K. X*., Forsyth, D. W., & Fischer, K. M. (2024). A mid‐lithospheric discontinuity detected beneath 155 Ma western Pacific seafloor using Sp receiver functions. Geophysical Research Letters, 51(5), e2024GL108347. (pdf)(sup.)

  • Chen, K. X*., Fischer, K. M., Hua, J., & Gung, Y. (2020). Imaging crustal melt beneath northeast Japan with Ps receiver functions. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 537, 116173. (pdf)(sup.)

  • Zellmer, G. F.*, Chen, K. X., Gung, Y., Kuo, B. Y., & Yoshida, T. (2019). Magma transfer processes in the NE Japan arc: insights from crustal ambient noise tomography combined with volcanic eruption records. Frontiers in Earth Science, 7, 40. (pdf) (sup.)

  • Chen, K. X*., Gung, Y., Kuo, B. Y., & Huang, T. Y. (2018). Crustal magmatism and deformation fabrics in northeast Japan revealed by ambient noise tomography. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 123(10), 8891-8906. (pdf) (sup.) (Download this model !)

  • Zhang, Y*., Yao, H., Yang, H. Y., Cai, H. T., Fang, H., Xu, J., ... & Chen, K. X. (2018). 3‐D crustal shear‐wave velocity structure of the Taiwan Strait and Fujian, SE China, revealed by ambient noise tomography. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 123(9), 8016-8031. (pdf) (sup.)

  • Kuo-Chen, H*., Chen, K. X., Sun, W. F., Ho, C. W., Lee, Y. H., Guan, Z. K., Kang, C. C., & Chang, W. Y. (2016). 3D Vs ambient noise tomography in the source region of 2016 Mw6.4 MeiNong earthquake. Terr. Atmos. Ocean. Sci., doi:10.3319/TAO.2016.12.28.01. (pdf) 

  • Chen, K. X., Kuo‐Chen, H*., Brown, D., Li, Q., Ye, Z., Liang, W. T., ... & Yao, H. (2016). Three‐dimensional ambient noise tomography across the Taiwan Strait: The structure of a magma‐poor rifted margin. Tectonics, 35(8), 1782-1792. (pdf) (sup.)

  • Chen, K. X., Chen, P. F*., Chen, L. W., Yao, H., Fang, H., & Su, P. L. (2016). South Ilan Plain High-Resolution 3-D S-Wave Velocity from Ambient Noise Tomography. Terrestrial, Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences, 27(3). (pdf)

  • Chen, P. F*., Chen, K. X., & Cheng, H. Y. (2015). Frequent excitations of T waves by earthquakes in the South Mariana Arc. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 98, 50-60. (pdf)

AWARDS/ HONORS

• • 2025: Gordon Research Conference Carl Storm International Diversity Award

  • 2020: 2018-2019 Top Downloaded Paper (Chen et al., 2018) in Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth [Wiley]

  • 2020: Selected Honorary Member of the Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society [National Taiwan University]

  • 2020: Dean's Award of College of Science [National Taiwan University]

  • 2020: The 40th Youth Forum: the Excellence Award [Department of Geology, National Taiwan University]

  • 2019: Prof. Yi-Ben Tsai Graduate Student  Scholarship [Chinese Taipei Geophysical Society]

  • 2017: Outstanding Student Paper Award [Earth Science Research Promotion Center, Ministry of Science and Technology]

  • 2016: Prof. Wei-zhou Ruan Memorial Scholarship [Department of Geology, National Taiwan University]

  • 2014: Outstanding Student Poster Award [2014 Taiwan Geosciences Assembly]

  • 2013: Undergraduate Student Earth Science Research Competition: the Second Place [Department of Earth Sciences, National Central University]

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

• Staff of IES Research Programs Open House: 2013, 2015, 2016, 2019

• Judge of Outstanding Student Presentation Award (OSPA): American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Japan Geoscience Union Meeting, Taiwan Geosciences Assembly, AS-IES summer research program 

• Reviewer of manuscripts: Geophysical Research Letters; Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth; Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems; Bulletin of the Seismological   Society of America; Geoscience Letters; Gondwana Research; Tectonophysics; etc.

INVITED TALKs

• • 2025/09: Ocean-Bottom Seismometer Observations of Upper-Mantle Seismic Structure and Infragravity Waves @ Dept. of Earth Sciences, National Central University

  • 2023/06: Imaging the upper mantle structure of the Pacific seafloor using surface wave and scattered body wave data: Case studies of the PLATE and PLUME OBS arrays @ Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica

  • 2022/11: Imaging Oceanic Lithosphere-Asthenosphere System beneath 155 Ma Western Pacific using S-to-p Receiver Functions @ Dept. of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Brown University

  • 2018/10: Crustal magmatism and deformation fabrics in northeast Japan revealed by ambient noise tomography @ Department of   Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Brown University

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

• • 2025 Gordon Research Conference on Interior of the Earth (poster), Imaging the Oceanic Mantle Structure Using Seismic Surface Waves Recorded by OBS Arrays: Case Studies from the PLUME and Oldest OBS arrays

  • 2025 Taiwan Geosciences Assembly (oral), Linking Ocean Storms and Earth's Hum Excitation: Seasonal Infragravity Wave Observations in the Pacific Ocean 

  • 2025 Japan Geoscience Union Meeting (oral), Linking Ocean Storms and Earth's Hum Excitation: Seasonal Infragravity Wave Observations in the Pacific Ocean

  • 2024 American Geophysical Union (AGU) fall meeting (poster), Infragravity Wave Observations in the Pacific Ocean Using Multiple Ocean-Bottom-Seismometer Arrays

  • 2024 American Geophysical Union (AGU) fall meeting (eLightning), On the origin of the Hawaiian Swell: Lithosphere and asthenosphere seismic structure from Rayleigh wave dispersion

  • 2024 The 8th TEC Annual Meeting (oral), Lithosphere and Asthenosphere of the Pacific Seafloor Imaged by Seismic Waves Recorded by OBS Arrays

  • 2024 Symposium on "Exploring the Earth’s Interior From Geophysical, Geochemical and Geodynamical Perspectives" @IES, AS (oral), On the Origin of the Hawaiian Swell: Constraints from Lithosphere and Asthenosphere Seismic Structure

  • 2024 Japan Geoscience Union Meeting (oral), Lithosphere and Asthenosphere Seismic Structure Beneath the Hawaiian Swell from Rayleigh Wave Dispersion

  • 2024 Japan Geoscience Union Meeting (poster), Infragravity wave generation and propagation in the Pacific Ocean revealed by ambient noise correlation

  • 2024 Annual Meeting of the Chinese Taipei Geophysical Society & Geological Society of Taiwan (oral), Lithosphere and Asthenosphere Seismic Structure Beneath the Hawaiian Swell from Rayleigh Wave Dispersion

  • 2023 Symposium on the Dynamic Earth from Crust to Core-Mantle Boundary (Oral), Receiver function imaging of the lithosphere-asthenosphere system beneath a 155 Ma Pacific seafloor: Results from the PLATE array

  • 2023 Gordon Research Conference on Interior of the Earth (poster), Imaging oceanic lithosphere-asthenosphere system beneath 155 Ma western Pacific using S-to-p receiver functions

  • 2023 GAGE/SAGE Community Science Workshop (poster), Imaging oceanic lithosphere-asthenosphere system beneath 155 Ma western Pacific using S-to-p receiver functions.

  • 2022 American Geophysical Union (AGU) fall meeting (poster), Imaging oceanic lithosphere-asthenosphere system beneath 155 Ma western Pacific using S-to-p receiver functions

  • 2020 The 40th Youth Forum (oral), Image crustal melt beneath northeast Japan with ambient noise tomography and Ps receiver functions

  • 2019 American Geophysical Union (AGU) fall meeting (poster), Imaging crustal melt beneath northeast Japan with Ps receiver functions

  • 2019 Workshop on Frontiers in Seismic Interferometry (poster), Imaging crustal melt beneath northeast Japan with Ps receiver functions

  • 2018 American Geophysical Union (AGU) fall meeting (poster), Crustal and upper mantle seismic structure in northeast Japan constrained by ambient noise tomography and Ps receiver functions

  • 2018 Asia Oceania Geosciences Society 15th Annual Meeting (poster), Crustal seismic structure of SW Japan constrained by noise interferometry

  • 2017 American Geophysical Union (AGU) fall meeting (poster), Crustal magmatism and deformation fabrics in northeast Japan  revealed by ambient noise tomography

  • 2017 2nd TEC Annual Meeting (oral), Crustal magmatism and deformation fabrics in northeast Japan revealed by ambient noise tomography

  • 2017 JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting (poster), Crustal structure and deformation fabrics in the Tohoku region, Japan, revealed by ambient noise tomography

  • 2017 Annual Meeting of the Chinese Taipei Geophysical Society & Geological Society of Taiwan (oral), Crustal structure and deformation fabrics in the Tohoku region, Japan, revealed by ambient noise tomography

  • 2016 American Geophysical Union (AGU) fall meeting (poster), Crustal seismic structure of Tohoku region, Japan constrained by ambient noises

  • 2016 The 1st TEC Annual Meeting (poster), Spatiotemporal Variation of Ambient Noise Levels and Cross-Correlations observed in Gujarat, India

  • 2016 The 1st TEC Annual Meeting (poster), Crustal seismic structure of Tohoku region, Japan constrained by ambient noises

  • 2016 BATS (Broadband Array in Taiwan for Seismology) open data services 20th anniversary conference (poster), 3D ambient noise tomography across the Taiwan Strait: the structure of a magma-poor rifted margin

  • 2016 Taiwan Geosciences Assembly (oral), Crustal seismic structure of Japan island constrained by ambient noises

  • 2016 Taiwan Geosciences Assembly (oral), 3D ambient noise tomography across the Taiwan Strait: the structure of a magma-poor rifted margin

  • 2015 The 8th World Chinese Geosciences Conference (poster), 3-D Shear Wave Crust and Upper-mantle Structure in Taiwan Strait using Ambient Noise Tomography

  • 2015 FACET (Feedbacks and coupling among climate, erosion and tectonics during mountain building) US-Taiwan Geoscience Workshop (poster), High-resolution 3-D Shear Wave Upper-crust Structures in Ilan Plain using Noise Tomography

  • 2015 Annual Meeting of the Chinese Taipei Geophysical Society & Geological Society of Taiwan (oral), High-resolution 3-D Shear Wave Upper-crust Structures in Ilan Plain using Noise Tomography

  • 2015 European Geosciences Union General Assembly (poster), High-resolution 3-D Shear Wave Upper-crust Structures in Ilan Plain using Ambient Noise Tomography

  • 2014 Asia Oceania Geosciences Society 11th Annual Meeting (poster), High Resolution Rayleigh Wave Tomography from Improved Ambient Noise Correlation Functions in Ilan Plain

  • 2014 Annual Meeting of the Chinese Taipei Geophysical Society & Geological Society of Taiwan (poster), High resolution Rayleigh wave tomography from improved Ambient Noise Correlation Functions in Yilan Plain

  • 2013 Taiwan Geosciences Assembly (poster), Seismometer Time Shift Correction using Cross-correlation Technique: Example of 1998-1999 BATS Waveform Data

3-D demonstration of Vs model