Lawrence Arthur

01/2024 - 

Urban seismology using DAS

Tarek

08/2024 - 

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

Braden Hoefer

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

Evelynne Metzler

08/2025 - 

She is starting Master degree in fall 2025

Richard Asirifi

08/2024- present

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

Ahmad Mohamadi

01/2023 - present

He is working on ML-applications in microseismicity

Saeed Montazeri 

01/2025 - 

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

Yuming Yuan

08/2025 - 

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

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