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WEBSITE(S)| Google | Ken Kennedy Institute

My work focuses on the application of data science and machine learning techniques to earthquake monitoring and geophysical forecasting. A significant focus of my research is the processing of large seismic networks to accurately detect, locate, and characterize earthquakes. We often employ graph-based and graph neural network-driven techniques to handle time-varying and spatially irregular seismic networks. Understanding and forecasting tectonic and volcanic processes through these data-driven techniques is a key interest. Additionally, improving methods for efficient neural-surrogate emulation of the relevant PDEs behind these physical processes is an important area of study.

Research Areas

Seismology, Earthquake Monitoring, Graph Neural Networks, Physics-Informed Machine Learning

Education

Stanford University, 2025, Ph.D., Geophysics

University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2019, M.S., Geoscience

Iowa State University, 2015, B.S., Geology and Mathematics

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