Welcome
Yifang Cheng
I am a postdoc in Berkeley Seismology Laboratory at University of California, Berkeley (UCB).
My research interests include utilizing and developing seismological analysis tools to investigate seismic source properties, analyze spatiotemporal variation of seismicity, and further understand the earthquake interaction and earthquake physics in relation to fault zone structures.
News
10/2021: I started a new job as a postdoc at Unversity of California, Berkeley.
08/2021: Paper titled "Isotropic source components of events in the 2019 Ridgecrest, California, earthquake sequence" published by Geophysical Research Letters. [Link]
09/2020: Paper titled "Variations of earthquake properties before, during and after the 2019 M7.1 Ridgecrest earthquake" published by Geophysical Research Letters. [Link]
08/2020: I presented "Focal mechanisms in Southern California: classical determination, improvements using deep learning algorithms, and application to 2019 Ridgecrest sequence" at German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ)
05/2020: Paper titled "An automated method for developing a catalog of small earthquakes using data of a dense seismic array and nearby stations" accepted by Seismological Research Letters. [Link]
12/2019: I presented "A focal mechanism catalog for Southern California derived with deep learning algorithms" at 2019 AGU Fall meeting.
10/2019: Paper titled "Transient Brittle‐Ductile Transition Depth Induced by Moderate‐Large Earthquakes in Southern and Baja California" published by Geophysical Research Letters. [Link]
09/2019: I presented "Focal mechanisms in Southern California: tectonic implications, classical determination, and improvements using deep learning algorithms" in GEOL609 Earthquake physics seminar at University of Southern California
04/2019: Yifang passed qualifying exam
12/2018: I presented " Informative space-time-magnitude-mechanism features of earthquakes in southern California" at 2018 AGU Fall meeting.
06/2018: I am awarded IRIS Workshop Student Scholarship
05/2018: Paper titled "Diverse volumetric faulting patterns in the San Jacinto fault zone" published by Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. [Link]
05/2018: Paper titled "Characteristics of Seismicity inside and outside the Salton Sea Geothermal Field" published by Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. [Link]
05/2018: I presented "Diverse volumetric faulting patterns in the San Jacinto fault zone" at 2018 SSA annual meeting.
Education
2017-2021: Ph.D student in Geophysics, University of Southern California (USC)
2015-2017: MSc in Geophysics, University of Oklahoma (OU)
2010-2014: BSc in Geophysics, Peking University (PKU)
Teaching
GEOL 145, Lies, damn lies and statistics, Spring 2019, USC
GEOL 105, Planet Earth, Spring 2018, USC
GEOL 130, Nature of Scientific Inquiry, Spring 2017, USC
GEOL 4143, Introduction to Petroleum Geology for Business Majors, Spring 2016, OU
GPHY 4413, Global Geophysics, Fall 2015, OU
Awards
USC graduate school fellowship, 2020
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Student Workshop Travel Grant, 2020
IRIS Workshop Student Scholarship, 2018
WiSE International Travel Grant, 2017
CPSGG Scholarship, University of Oklahoma, 2015
Robertson Conference and Research Travel Grant, 2015
SCEC-ERI Summer School Travel Award, 2015
Daiwa Securities Scholarship, University of Tokyo, 2013
Technical Skills
Language C, C++, Python, R, Shell, Matlab, MySQL, Fortran
HPC MPI, OpenMP, CUDA
AI Scikit-learn, PyTorch, Tensorflow
Writing LaTex, Jupyter
Last updated: 06/02/2023 by Yifang Cheng.