Graduate Students

Advisor: Ilya Tsvankin

Current Students

 

Yanhua

Yanhua Liu

Home Country: China
Degree Program: Ph.D., Geophysics
Biography

Harpreet

Harpreet Sethi

Home Country: India
Degree Program: Ph.D., Geophysics
Biography

Ashish

Ashish Kumar

Home Country: India
Degree Program: Ph.D., Geophysics
Biography

 

 

Graduates (since 2002)

 

Sagar

Sagar Singh

Home Country: India
Degree: Ph.D., Geophysics, 2022
Thesis: Application of facies constraints and machine learning to full-waveform inversion for anisotropic media

Yogesh

Yogesh Arora

Home Country: India
Degree: Ph.D., Geophysics, 2020
Thesis: Processing and traveltime inversion of seismic diffractions in anisotropic media

Qifan

Qifan Liu

Home Country: China
Degree: M.S., Geophysics, 2019
Non-thesis program

Tong

Tong Bai

Home Country: China
Degree: Ph.D., Geophysics, 2019
Thesis: Modeling, imaging and waveform inversion in attenuative anisotropic media

Oscar

Oscar Jarillo Michel

Home Country: Mexico
Degree: Ph.D., Geophysics, 2019
Thesis: Elastic waveform inversion of microseismic data in anisotropic media

Vladimir

Vladimir Li

Home Country: Russia
Degree: Ph.D., Geophysics, 2018
Thesis: Image-domain wavefield tomography in transversely isotropic media

Sonali

Sonali Pattnaik

Home Country: India
Degree: M.S., Geophysics, 2017
Thesis: Full waveform inversion with reflected waves for acoustic 2D VTI media

Hui

Hui Wang

Home Country: China
Degree: M.S., Geophysics, 2016
Thesis: Seismic waveform modeling and inversion in acoustic orthorhombic media

NIshant

Nishant Kamath

Home Country: India
Degree: Ph.D., Geophysics, 2016
Thesis: Full-waveform inversion in 2D VTI media

 

Bharath


Bharath Shekar

Home Country: India
Degree: Ph.D., Geophysics, 2014
Thesis: Modeling, evaluation, and asymptotic analysis of attenuation anisotropy

 

Steve


Steve Smith

Home Country: USA
Degree: Ph.D., Geophysics, 2013
Thesis: Modeling and inversion of stress-induced multicomponent seismic time shifts

 

Pengfei

Pengfei Cai

Home Country: The People's Republic of China
Degree: MSc., Geophysics, 2013
Thesis: Joint migration velocity analysis of PP- and PS-waves for VTI media

Xiaoxiang Wang


Xiaoxiang Wang

Home Country: The People's Republic of China
Degree: Ph.D., Geophysics, 2012
Thesis: Multiparameter TTI tomography of P-wave reflection and VSP data

 

MamoruTakanashi

Mamoru Takanashi

Home Country: Japan
Degree: Ph.D., Geophysics, 2011

Thesis: Anisotropic parameter estimation in the presence of a laterally heterogeneous overburden


Jia Yan

Home Country: The People's Republic of China
Degree: Ph.D., Geophysics, 2010

Thesis: Wave-mode separation for elastic imaging in transversely isotropic media


 

Yongxia Liu

Home Country: The People's Republic of China
Degree: MSc., Geophysics, 2010

Thesis: Gaussian beam modeling in heterogeneous anisotropic media

 


Jyoti Behura


Home Country: India
Degree: Ph.D., Geophysics, 2009
Thesis: Estimation and analysis of attenuation anisotropy
Award: Best Paper in Geophysics, 2009

 


Rodrigo Felicio Fuck

Home Country: Brazil
Degree: Ph.D., Geophysics, 2008
Thesis: Modeling of seismic signatures for reservoir characterization:  Applications involving fracture- and stress-induced seismic velocity anisotropy



 

Ivan Vasconcelos

Home Country: Brazil
Degree: Ph.D., Geophysics, 2007
Thesis: Interferometry in perturbed media

 

 

Xiaoxia (Ellen) Xu


Home Country: The People's Republic of China
Degree: Ph.D., Geophysics, 2006
Thesis: Anisotropic geometrical-spreading correction and its application in azimuthal AVO analysis


 

Yaping Zhu

Home Country: The People's Republic of China
Degree: Ph.D., Geophysics, 2006
Thesis: Seismic wave propagation in attenuative anisotropic media
Award: Best Student Poster Paper, 2005 SEG



 

Pawan Dewangan

Home Country: India
Degree: Ph.D., Geophysics, 2004
Thesis: Processing and applications of mode-converted waves using the PP+PS=SS method



 

Debashish Sarkar

Home Country: India
Degree: Ph.D., Geophysics, 2003
Thesis: Migration velocity analysis in factorized VTI media


 

Andrés Pech

Home Country: Mexico
Degree: Ph.D., Geophysics, 2003
Thesis: Velocity analysis for laterally heterogeneous anisotropic media

 

 

Petr Jílek

Home Country: The Czech Republic
Degree: Ph.D., Geophysics, 2002
Thesis: Modeling and inversion of converted-wave reflection coefficients in anisotropic media: A tool for quantitative AVO analysis