People

Current Students and Post-docs

PhD students

• Longqi Sun (2024-Present)

• Qiong Wu (2022-Present)

• Jay Ghosh (2022-Present, co-advise with Dr. Will Sager)

• Divine Victor Kalu (2021-Present)

MS students

• Jameson Hampton (2024-Present)

• Julio Garcia (2022-Present)

Visiting students

• Jun Chen, PhD student from China University of Geosciences, Wuhan (2024/11-Present)

• Prithwijit Chakraborti, PhD student from University College Dublin (2024/01-2024/09)

Summer interns

• Melissa Unlu from University of Houston (May - Nov, 2023)

• Rohan Mehta from The Woodlands College Park High School (May - Dec, 2021)

Alumni

• Sihong Wu, Post-doctoral Fellow (2023-2025), now at MIT.

Post-doctoral research topic: Deep learning to improve marine magnetic data interpretation and to solve probabilistic geophysical inverse problems.

• Prithwijit Chakraborti, PhD in geophysics (2024-2025), co-advise with Dr. Aline Melo at University College Dublin

Thesis title: Improved subsurface characterisation through geophysical modelling with integrated drill holes and physical property constraints for mineral exploration

• Keenan Barker, MS in geophysics (2020-2023), now an Associate Geoscientist at Weston Solutions, Inc.  

Thesis title: Improving the intrepretation of magnetic tensor data using deep learning

• Xiaolong Wei, PhD in geophysics (2018-2022), now a post-doc at Stanford University.  

Thesis title: Uncertainty Quantification in Geophysical Inversion and Geological Differentiation

• Kenneth Li, MS in geophysics (2018-2021), now a Geodetic Earth Scientist at National Geospatial Intelligence Agency.

Thesis title:  Geophysical characterization of the Elk Creek Carbonatite based on 3D joint inversion and geology differentiation

• Felicia Nurindrawati, MS in geophysics (2018-2020), now a machine learning engineer at TCarta.

Thesis title: Predicting Magnetization Directions Using Convolutional Neural Networks

• Jae Deok Kim, MS in geophysics (2018-2020), now a PhD student at MIT-WHOI.

Thesis title: Regional Scale Mineral Exploration Through Joint Inversion and Geology Differentiation Based On Multi-Physics Geoscientific Data. 

• Melanie Adelman, MS in geology (2018-2019), now a geologist at Ryder Scott. 

Thesis title: Building Static Geological Models in the Presence of Missing Values and Sparse Data.