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Semechah Lui - Assistant Professor of Applied Geophysics 

Semechah received her Ph.D. in Geophysics from the California Institute of Technology and B.S. in Geological Sciences from the University of Michigan. Prior to joining UTM in 2018, she was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Civil and Mineral Engineering at U of Toronto. 

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SeongJu Jeong - Roger E. Deane Postdoctoral Scholar

SeongJu Jeong received his PhD in Geophysics from Southern Methodist University in 2021. His research interests include ground motion analysis and source discrimination between multiple events. He is currently working on lower stress drop or slow earthquakes observed in induced earthquakes.

Riddhi Mandal - Ph.D. candidate  

Riddhi received a B.S. and M.S. in Earth Sciences from IISER Kolkata. His interests are geared towards earthquake source modeling using kinematic and numerical models. He is currently working on using numerical earthquake models to look at the interaction of aseismic and seismic motions on faults, with anthropogenic effects included. 

Xinyu Tan - Ph.D. candidate  

Xinyu received his B.S. in petroleum engineering from China University of Petroleum (East China) and M.S. in mining engineering from Virginia Tech. His general research interest is on the problem of induced seismicity caused by fluid injection in the oil and gas industry such as hydraulic fracturing and wastewater disposal.


Hoi Leung Pun - Ph.D. candidate 

Hoi Leung has been part of our group since 2020 as an ROP student. He received his B.S. in the Earth Science at UTM in 2022 and stayed with us to continue his Ph.D. studies. He is interested in the triggering mechanisms of earthquakes, particularly foreshock-mainshock interactions.

Karli Stevenson - Undergraduate research assistant

Karli is an Undergraduate student in the geophysics specialist program working towards a B.S. in Earth Science at UTSG. Over the summer she is investigating the spatiotemporal evolution as well as source properties of seismicity in the Western Quebec Seismic Zone through a work study program, and she will be continuing this research for the 2024-2025 school year as an ROP student.

Alumni

William Sheng Hua Ye - Postdoctoral fellow, Fall 2021 - Spring 2024, Now sessional lecturer at UTM

Yukai Hu - Undergraduate research assistant, Winter 2022, Now Ph.D. student at Chinese University of Hong Kong

Aniruddha Patel - Undergraduate Research Intern (IIT Kharagpur), Summer 2020, Now consultant at TGC Digital

Muhammad Nur Aflah Ahmad Zul Kamal - ROP student, Summer 2019 

End of term party (May 2023)

Holiday lunch (December 2023)