Group
Current members
Po-Li Su | Postdoctoral Fellow
Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica
Research topic:
High-resolution seismic imaging for geothermal exploration
Vinh Long Ha | TIGP PhD student
Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica (co-advised with Chung-Han Chan)
Research topic:
Crustal seismic imaging of the northern Vietnam
En-Shih Wu | PhD student
Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University (Co-advised with Justin Ko)
Research project:
Fiber-optic sensing in seismology
Ratnamani Gupta | TIGP PhD student
Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica (co-advised with Po-Fei Chen)
Research topic:
Seismotectonics of western Nepal
Chaninthon Rattanavetchasit | PhD student
Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University (Co-advised with Yih-Min Wu)
Research topic:
Advanced ambient noise imaging and monitoring
Ding-Jyun Lin | PhD student
Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University (Co-advised with Yih-Min Wu)
Research project:
Machine learning with ambient noise seismology
Hung-Yu Yen | TIGP PhD student
Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica (co-advised with Po-Fei Chen)
Research topic:
Full waveform tomography
I-Yun Kang | Master student
Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University (Co-advised with Yih-Min Wu)
Research project:
Passive seismology in basement mapping and geothermal survey
Chi-Hsuan Wang | Master student
Dept. of Earth Sciences, National Central University (Co-advised with Po-Fei Chen)
Research project:
Fault zone imaging with distributed fiber-optic sensing
Yen-Hsin Lee | Master student
Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University
Research project:
Landslide monitoring via distributed fiber-optic sensing
Hsi-An Chen | Research assistant
Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica
Research project:
Detecting and locating natural vibration sources in landslide areas
Hong-Mao Huang | Research assistant
Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica
Research project:
Geophysical exploration of geothermal resources
Hsiang-Yu Yang | Research assistant
Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica
Research project:
Machine learning with fiber-optic seismology
Yi-Sheng Huang | Research assistant
Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica
Research project:
Ground motion prediction with data assimilation
Co-advisees
Miftahul Huda | TIGP PhD student (co-advised)
Dept. of Geoscoences, National Taiwan University (primary advisor: Yih-Min Wu)
Research project:
Seismic imaging of the Sulawesi Island, Indonesia
Cholisina A. Perwita | TIGP PhD student (co-advised)
Dept. of Earth Sciences, National Central University (primary advisor: K. I. Konstantinou)
Research project:
Seismic monitoring of active volcanoes
Yekti Widyaningrum | TIGP PhD student (co-advised)
Dept. of Earth Sciences, National Central University (primary advisor: Ping-Yu Chang)
Research project:
Geothermal exploration using electromagnetic methods
Yi-Ting Chiang | Undergraduate (co-advised)
Department of Physics, National Taiwan University (primary advisor: Yu Wang)
Research project:
Relocation of the 1951 earthquake sequence with historical records
Technical partners
Li-Chen Yang | Administrative assistant
Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica
Technical support:
Administration and Academic support
Gary Tsai | Technician
Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica
Technical support:
High-performance computing management, website development
Chun-Te Chen | Researcher
Sinotech Engineering Consultants, Inc.
Technical support:
Microtremor analysis and seismic waveform simulation
Chin-Jen Lin | Research Scientist
Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica
Technical support:
Instrumentation engineering and maintenance
Chin-Shang Ku | Research Scientist
Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica
Technical support:
Data archive and real-time transmission
IES summer program students
2023 Mapping slip zones of faults and landslides with fiber-optic sensing (Honorable Mention)
汪其璇 (中央大學地科系三年級) (海報比賽佳作)
李妍忻 (中正大學地環系三年級) (海報比賽佳作)
2022 Time-dependent Seismic Tomography
陳立瑾 (中正大學地環系二年級)
康譯云 (台北市立大學地生系三年級)
2021 Human and Volcano: ambient noise and seismic imaging studies for northern Taiwan*
陳維蓁 (中正大學地環系三年級)
林育謙 (台北市立大學地生系三年級)
張恩睿 (Minerva Schools at KGI)
*A virtual program WFH due to COVID-19 pandemic
2019 Environmental seismology: using ambient noise to detect temporal changes of volcanic structure
陳旖妮 (中央大學地球科學系三年級)
林豊傑 (台灣大學地理環境資源學系三年級)
2018 Decoding the vibrations from slow-moving deep-seated landslides (Merit Award)
陳珏縈 (中央大學地球科學系三年級) (海報比賽優等)
褚臻 (台北市立大學地生系二年級) (海報比賽優等)
2017 Subsurface fault structure unveiled by recent earthquakes in Taiwan (Honorable Mention)
許毓芳 (台灣大學地理環境資源學系三年級) (海報比賽佳作)
陳奐鈞 (成功大學地球科學系三年級) (海報比賽佳作)
陳昭邑 (中央大學地球科學系三年級) (海報比賽佳作)
Graduates
Jen Chu
M.S. 2022, Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University (Co-advised with Jyr-Ching Hu)
-- Currently research assistant at National Central University
Thesis topic:
B.S. 2020, Department of Earth and Life Sciences, University of Taipei (College Student Research Program)
Thesis topic:
Decoding the vibrations from slow-moving deep-seated landslides
Chin-Yao Huang
M.S. 2022, Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University (Co-advised with Yih-Min Wu)
Thesis topic:
Kuan-Fu Feng
-- Currently joint-appointment Postdoc at University of Utah and University of Washington
Ph.D. 2022, Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University (Co-advised with Yih-Min Wu)
Thesis topic:
Huan-Chun Chen
-- Currently high school Geosciences teacher
M.S. 2020, Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University (Co-advised with Yih-Min Wu)
Thesis topic:
En-Shih Wu
M.S. 2020, Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University (Co-advised with Justin Ko)
Thesis topic:
B.S., 2018, Department of Earth and Life Sciences, University of Taipei (College Student Research Program)
Thesis topic:
Investigating Moho properties with regional Pn waves in offshore eastern Taiwan
Yu-Fang Hsu
-- Currently study Ph.D. at University of Southern California
M.S. 2020, Department of Geography, National Taiwan University (Co-advised with Ray Chuang)
Thesis topic:
B.S., 2018, Department of Geography, National Taiwan University (co-advised with Ray Chuang)
Thesis topic:
Seismogenic structure of 2016 ML6.4 Meinong earthquake
Yuan-Yi Yen
-- Currently assistant researcher at Sinotech
M.S. 2020, Department of Earth Sciences, National Taiwan Normal University (Co-advised with Kate Chen)
Thesis topic:
Alumni
Yu-Heng Chen (Primary advisory: Chung-Han Chan)
Undergraduate (2024/2 - 2024/4), Department of Earth Sciences, National Central University
Research topic:
Machine learning with fiber-optic seismology
Chin-Yao Huang
-- Currently web engineer at SYSFEATHER
Research assistant (2023/2 - 2024/3), Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica
Research project:
Real-time seismic velocity change system
Lingerew Nebere Kassie (Primary advisor: Ping-Yu Chang)
-- withdrawn due to country/family matters
TIGP Ph.D. student (2021/8 - 2023/9), Department of Earth Sciences, National Central University
Research project:
Mapping hydrogeological structures using transient electromagnetic method
Kyle Smith
-- Currently Postdoc at the United States Geological Survey
Postdoctoral Fellow (2020/8 - 2023/8), Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica
Research project:
Analyzing seismic noise characteristics from environmental forcing
Yun-Ze Cheng
-- Currently study Ph.D. at Australian National University
Research assistant (2021/8 - 2023/7), Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica
Research project:
Joint inversion of surface wave measurements and receiver functions
Kuan-Fu Feng
-- Currently joint-appointment Postdoc at University of Utah and University of Washington
Postdoctoral Fellow (2022/1 - 2022/5), Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica
Research project:
Detecting and monitoring temporal changes of the crust in seismic velocity
Cheng-Nan Liu
-- Currently study Ph.D. at University of Utah
Research assistant (2020/1 - 2021/7), Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica
Research project:
Applications of machine learning on seismology
Zhu Zhang
-- Currently Senior Geophysicist at Fugro
Postdoctoral Fellow (2017/10 - 2020/7), Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica
Research project:
Imaging discontinuities beneath Taiwan orogen with teleseismic migration
Jyh Cherng Jan
-- Currently Research scientist at CWA
Research assistant (2019/2 - 2019/3), Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica
Research project:
Realtime data transmission and display from remote landslide areas
Guan-Jie Chen
Undergraduate (2017/8 - 2018/7), Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University (co-advised with Yue-Gau Chen)
Research topic:
On 3-D thermal structure of active mountain building
Visitors
2025
Mong-Han Huang, Visiting professor, 2025/1 - 2025/4 (NSTC)
Department of Geology, University of Maryland
Research topic: Stress modulation on earthquakes and icequakes
2024
Ettore Biondi, Visiting professor, 2024/9 (NSTC)
Seismological Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Research topic: High-Resolution Seismic Imaging with Distributed Fiber-optic Sensing and Machine Learning
Hisashi Nakahara, Visiting professor, 2024/8
Dept. of Geophysics, Tohoku University
Research topic: DAS research on traffic noise interferometry
Victor Tsai, Visiting professor, 2024/7 (AS)
Dept. of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Brown University
Research topic: New generation of inference-based Earth imaging
HyeJeong Kim, Visiting scholar, 2024/6 (AS)
Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah
Research topic: MCMC inversion for near-surface structure
Fan-Chi Lin, Visiting professor, 2024/6 - 2024/8 (AS)
Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah
Research topic: Applications of dense array seismic imaging
Hiroki Sone, Visiting professor, 2024/2 - 2024/5 (NSTC/AS)
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Research topic: Time-lapse stress analysis in tectonic and geothermal applications
2022
Sin-Mei Wu, Visiting scholar, 2022/9 - 2022/10
Swiss Seismological Service, ETH Zurich
Research topic: Seismic imaging for geothermal exploration
2019
Kiwamu Nishida, Visiting professor, 2019/9 (AS)
Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo
Research topic: Time-lapse monitoring of seismic velocity associated with 2011 Shinmoedake eruption using seismic interferometry
Zack Spica, Visiting professor, 2019/9 (AS)
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Michigan
Research topic: Ambient seismic field for site effect estimation
Honn Kao, Visiting professor, 2019/9 (MOST)
Geological Survey of Canada
Research topic: BATS and Broadband Seismology in Taiwan
Fan-Chi Lin, Visiting professor, 2019/8 - 2020/7 (MOST)
Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah
Research topic: Applications of dense array seismic imaging
Aso Naofumi, Visiting professor, 2019/4 - 2019/5
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Research topic: Source dynamics of non-volcanic tremors
Chaninthon Rattanavechasit, Visiting student, 2019/5 - 2019/8 (DPST project)
Department of Physics and Materials Science, Chiang Mai University
Research topic: Monitoring temporal variations of deep-seated landslide body in seismic velocity
2018
Shengji Wei, Visiting professor, 2018/11 (MOST)
Earth Observatory of Singapore (EOS) & Nanyang Technological University
Research topic: Crossroads of high-frequency waveform modeling
Mong-Han Huang, Visiting professor, 2018/7
Department of Geology, University of Maryland
Research topic: Post-earthquake deformation and seismic hazard
Rebecca Butcher, Visiting student, 2018/7 (UMD International Graduate Research Fellowship)
Department of Geology, University of Maryland
Research topic: Post-earthquake deformation and seismic hazard
2017
Fan-Chi Lin, Visiting professor, 2017/11 (MOST)
Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah
Research topic: Imaging volcanic and hydrothermal systems using dense seismic arrays
Victor Tsai, Visiting professor, 2017/3 (MOST)
Seismological Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Research topic: Quantifying Natural Hazards: From Earthquake Damage to Debris Flows
Vinh Long Ha, Summer intern, 2017/5 - 2017/6 (AS-TIIP)
Institute of Geophysics, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology
Research topic: Local seismic tomography for crustal structure of the northern Vietnam