Welcome !

I am Taiyi Wang, currently an O. K. Earl postdoctoral fellow at the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences at the California Institute of Technology. 

I work at the intersection of earthquake physics and volcanology. My research is driven by the desire to understand the coupling between fluid flow and crustal mechanics, which are essential elements comprising many exciting problems in Earth science. 

To bridge source dynamics and observations relevant to fluid-solid coupling in the subsurface, I apply analytical methods and numerical modeling to make quantitative interpretations of InSAR, GPS, and seismic data.  My current research interests range from caldera-forming eruptions, induced seismicity/aseismic slip, to low frequency earthquakes. Additionally, I am developing neural operators for solving a class of elasticity (and beyond) problems that are expensive to solve numerically, enhancing our ability to constrain parameter space in complex Earth systems. 

I will join the Earth and Planetary Sciences Department at the University of Texas at Austin as an Assistant Professor of Geophysics in August 2026. I am recruiting graduate students as well as postdocs for the same starting date. Students with strong mathematics, physics, and engineering mechanics backgrounds are encouraged to apply. Feel free to reach out to me with your CV and a short paragraph describing your research interests.