Bryce Rhoades (Undergrad)

08/2026 - 

He is working on spectral-based source parameter. 

Viviana Pumasupa (Undergrad)

11/2025 - 

She is working on Chile seismicity

Tonglin Choi (PhD)

08/2026 - 

He started PhD in fall 2026, and will work on volcano seismology

Evelynne Metzler (MS)

08/2025 - 

She started Master degree in fall 2025, and currently working on ML analysis of explosions. 

Richard Asirifi (PhD)

08/2024- present

He finished master degree at TAMU in August 2024 (08/2022-08/2024), and continued as a PhD student

Ahmad Mohamadi (PhD)

01/2023 - present

He is working on ML-applications in microseismicity

Saeed Montazeri (PhD)

01/2025 - 

He started PhD in Jan 2025, and will work on seismicity and swarms. 

Yuming Yuan (PhD)

08/2025 - 

He started PhD in fall 2025, and will work on DAS related studies

Lawrence Arthur

01/2024 - 05/2026

Urban seismology using DAS

Tarek

08/2024 - 05/2026

Fullbright scholar from Egypt, working on ML-based seismic attribute analysis. 

Braden Hoefer, now geophysicist at Devon

08/2023 - 08/2025

He graduated in summer 2025. He performed careful analysis of the Cushing Nodal array, and found new faults with possible slow slip

Joey Hlavac, Now MS student at OU

05/2025-05/2026: undergraduate student in Geophysics 

Joey worked in induced earthquakes in Synder, TX

Deepankar Dangwal

08/2017 - 2022 : PhD student in Geophysics (with Dr. Michael Behm), Now at CGG

He graduated from IIT with MS degree in Geophysics. 

He is working on near-surface structure with ambient noise analysis.  

Dissertation: Application of passive seismic interferometry for local and shallow imaging

Raymond Ng

01/2017 - 2022 : PhD student in Geophysics (with Dr. Nori Nakata)

He graduated from Cal Poly Pomona with MS degree in Geophysics. 

He  worked on microseisicity and hydraulic fracturing.  

Dissertation: Characterization of the subsurface from evaluating low amplitude seismic recordings

Zhuobo Wang

08/2017 - 2022 : PhD student in Geophysics (with Dr. Michael Behm)

He graduated from OU with MS degree in Geology. 

He is working on receiver function analysis.  

Dissertation: Receiver function imaging of deep and shallow subsurface structures of Oklahoma

Pranshu Ratre

01/2022 -11/2022 : Postdoc Scholar, now at Google X as a geophysicist

She graduated with a doctoral degree from OU in December 2021.

She is working on geothermal project and waveform modeling. 

Dissertation: Investigating the regional and local structure of Oklahoma's crust using induced earthquakes

Angie Ortega

08/2018 - 06/2020: MS student in Geophysics (with Dr. Jake Walter)

Angie is working on Hawaii earthquake sequence,  using cross-correlation to determine depth of induced earthquakes in Oklahoma (in collaboration with student Pranshu), and shear-wave splitting with Dr. Jake Walter. 

Master thesis: Aspects of Seismicity Clustering, Subsurface Structure, and Stress Orientations

Jiewen Zhang, now a postdoc scholar at Chinese University of Hong Kong 

08/2016 -07/2021 : PhD student in Geophysics

He graduated from USTC with MS degree in Geophysics in 2016. 

Dissertation: Multiscale analysis of seismic event source parameter resolution and characterization

Yan Qin, now research geophysicist at CGG. 

08/2015-11/2020: MS and PhD student in Geophysics (with two internships at LANL)

11/2020 - 11/2022: postdoc scholar at LANL

Dissertation: Roles of Fluid Injection, Stress State, Geological Structure, and Earthquake Interaction on Oklahoma Earthquakes

Colin Pennington, now research geophysicist at LLNL

08/2015-07/2020: MS and PhD student in Geophysics at OU 

Dissertation: Earthquake Source and Rupture Characterization from Microearthquakes to Megathrust Earthquakes

Award: 1st place presentation at the AAPG student Expo for graduate student in Geophysics in 2017

 Jackson Haffener, now at Devon Energy 

08/2015 - 05/2017: master student in Geophysics

Master thesis: MULTISCALE SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSES OF SEISMICITY AND WASTEWATER INJECTION IN OKLAHOMA

Award: DeGoyler Award from the School of Geology and Geophysics in 2017 for outstanding graduate student (1 award per year)

Yifang Cheng, now a professor at Tongji University website

01/2015 - 07/2016: master student in Geophysics

Master thesis: SEISMICITY AND SOURCE SPECTRA ANALYSIS IN SALTON SEA GEOTHERMAL FIELD

Award: 1st place presentation at AAPG student Expo for graduate students in Geophysics in 2016. 

Qimin Wu, Now a senior seismologist at Lettis Consultants International, Inc

08/2017 -01/2020 : Postdoc scholar in Geophysics

He graduated from Virginia Tech with a PhD degree in 2017

He is working on developing robust approaches for source time function and understanding source complexity for small-to-moderate earthquakes via EGF approach. 

Zach Rosson

08/2017 - 05/2019: MS student in Geophysics (Dr. Jake Walter is the primary chair)

He worked on statistical analysis of Oklahoma seismicity, and compare clustering behavior with California. 

Master thesis: Aftershock decay in space and time of induced seismicity in Oklahoma

Award: SSA best student paper in 2019. 

Sarah Sundberg

08/2017 - 05/2019: undergraduate student in Geophysics 

Sarah is working hydraulic fracturing earthquakes in Oklahoma

Award: 2nd place presentation at the AAPG student expo in spring 2018 and 2019.  

John McKnight, now a MS student in Geophysics at OU

10/2021 -05/2022 : Undergraduate student in Geophysics

He was working on earthquake and train detection using a DAS array. 

Tony Bell

06/2019 - 06/2020: undergraduate student in Geophysics 

Tony is working on dynamic triggering in Oklahoma. 

 Abraham Wallace

06/2016 - 09/2016: undergraduate student in Geophysics

He worked on analysis of earthquakes in Coso geothermal field in California to understand differences inside and outside the geothermal field. 

Experiences: He was selected as for IRIS internship to conduct research on anisotropy measurement