Yuri is a rising senior at Princeton University, studying seismology and solid earth geophysics. This summer, she will be using Bayesian inversion to construct a tomographic phase velocity map of Africa. She intends to pursue a Ph.D. in geophysics following graduation.
Owyn is a junior studying physics at Beloit College. This summer, he will be building a data-quality catalog for seismic stations around the continent of Africa using machine learning.
Zhijie is an experienced data scientist working on performance optimization of a variety of data processing workflows in the group. Projects include machine learning for signal detection in noisy seismic coda and massively parallel data download and waveform processing on the HPC Bluehive machine.
Yingping was our first graduate student. She worked on implementing Deep Learning Methods in Earthquake Seismology. She is now working with American Express as a data science expert. She loves swimming, playing the guitar, and enjoys great Korean food.
James is now a senior at Pennsylvania State University. His internship experiences include the Texas Advanced Computing Center, LiDar, Africa Array REU, applied geophysics in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is completing a senior thesis looking at seismic anisotropy underneath the longest-lived cratons in Northern America
Walter was a research assistant at URSeismo in 2022 when he was enrolled in the Data Science Master program at UR. He held an undergraduate BA degree in Geophysics with a secondary BS in Applied Mathematics from SUNY Geneseo. He is now a Data Scientist-Analyst at National General.
Lucinda was a research assistant at URSeismo in 2022 when she was a graduate student at the University of Rochester majoring in Data Science. She holds BS in Mathematics from Shanghai University and worked as a data analyst in a technology company.
Enting is currently pursuing a BS Honor degree in Computer Science and a minor in Mathematics at the University of Rochester. He was a research assistant with us in 2022 and his work focused on machine learning on Africa's crustal architecture.
Siyu was with the URSeismo group as an undergraduate research assistant for over 2 years from 2021 to 2023. She was a double major in anthropology & data science, with a minor in mathematics. During her time here, Siyu worked primarily on surface wave tomography in the African continent, and has co-authored two peer-reviewed research articles. Siyu says she wants to make the world a better place.
Kaetu is a geology major at Amherst college (2024E). He was born in Liberia and lived and grew up in Boston for the majority of his life. His interests include playing squash, astrophotography, Roman/Greek history and African history. Kaetu joined us in summer '23 as an URISE intern and worked on crustal imaging of the African continent.
Jiayue majored in Data Science, Statistics, and Financial Economics and minored in Mathematics at the University of Rochester. She joined us in summer '23 and worked on the project of body wave and surface wave imaging of the Pacific plate.