About Me

Five simple facts about me.

1. My name is Xiaofeng Meng, an Earthquake Seismologist working for Southern California Earthquake Center at University of Southern California.

2. I study many aspects of earthquakes, both small and large ones. The ultimate goal of my work is to mitigate seismic hazard.

3. I am also very interested in data sciences, especially mining interesting signals from large volume of data.

4. I stepped into earthquake studies because of the 2008 magnitude 8 Wenchuan, China earthquake, which occurred in my home province.

5. I am happily married. My wife and I have one boy and two cats, a tuxedo cat named Twinkie and a calico one named Coffee.