About me

I am an assistant professor of Geology, working at the Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. My main research focuses are the active tectonics, and the near-surface fault rupture behaviors. I use several different techniques to observe and measure the ground deformation associated with fault activity at different time scales, from which we could evaluate the potential seismic hazards in the future, and the physics controlling the fault rupture.

My research involves active fault mapping from the remote sensing data, paleoseismological investigation along active faults, topographic survey of tectonic deformed landscapes, and numerical modeling techniques. The instrument used in these studies include the typical commercial multi-rotor drones, UAV-LiDAR, ground-based laser scanners, optical remote sensing data.

During my Ph.D., I worked at Caltech with Professor Kerry Sieh on the Earthquake Geology of Myanmar. This research is mainly composed of four different parts: 1) the overall analysis of neotectonic structures of the Myanmar-Bangladesh area from remote sensing imagery and geological information. 2) Fault-slip and earthquake history of southern Sagaing fault since AD 1600s 3) The inelastic uplift and earthquake history of the northern Sunda megathrust. 4) Coseismic slip distribution of March-2011 Tarlay earthquake in remote eastern Myanmar. These works provide a first-order analysis of the recent active fault movements within the country of Myanmar.

After Caltech, I moved to Earth Observatory of Singapore (EOS) for a postdoc, where I worked with many different researchers, including Professor Paul Tapponnier and Professor Kerry Sieh on the active tectonics of Southeast and South Asia. By using the high-resolution remote sensing and field survey data, we map the active faults in many different Southeast Asian countries, including Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia. I also work together with other researchers to address the seismic and tsunami hazards of Southeast Asia, where the hazard exposure within this region has rapidly increased in recent years.

In February 2018, I moved to the Department of Geosciences (National Taiwan University), where I continued working on paleoseismology and near-field surface deformation during the earthquake. In recent years, except for the active tectonic studies, I am also working on the analysis of natural hazards using integrated remote sensing data, including the recent 2020 Jade mine landslide in the northern Myanmar.