{"id":1432,"date":"2017-12-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sas.rochester.edu\/ees\/urseismo\/alumni\/"},"modified":"2019-04-04T18:58:23","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T18:58:23","slug":"alumni","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.sas.rochester.edu\/ees\/urseismo\/current-members\/alumni\/","title":{"rendered":"Interns\/Alumni"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ziqi<\/span> Zhang<\/span><\/div>
Postdoc (UMD)<\/div>

Dr. Zhang is the first PhD graduate from the group with\u00a0 degrees from USTC and CEA (see link). During his Ph.D. he developed a dazzling array of new de-noising tools: FADER and SHARP-SS. He is now a postdoc at UMD collaborating remotely with the group.<\/p><\/div>

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Siyu<\/span> Xue<\/span><\/div>
PhD (Cornell)<\/div>

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. <\/span>Siyu says she wants to make the world a better place.<\/span><\/p><\/div>

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Yuri<\/span> Tamama<\/span><\/div>
PhD (Caltech)<\/div>

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.<\/span><\/p><\/div>

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Liam<\/span> Moser<\/span><\/div>
PhD (MIT WHOI)<\/div>
Liam is a senior at Western Washington University. He is hunting for reverberations buried within large volumes of receiver function traces. He is doing this empirically, using parametric models and phase stacking: X (stacking control), R (wave-speed ratio) & Vp (compressional velocity). Project details below.<\/div>
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Zhijie<\/span> Ji<\/span><\/div>
Data Scientist (DvO1)<\/div>

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.\u00a0<\/p><\/div>

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Owyn <\/span> Colwell<\/span><\/div>
IRIS Intern '21 (Senior at Beloit)<\/div>

Owyn<\/span>\u00a0is 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.<\/p><\/div>

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Yingping<\/span> Lu<\/span><\/div>
Cash App<\/div>

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.<\/p><\/div>

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Brian<\/span> Filipiak<\/span><\/div>
PhD (UConn)<\/div>
Brian worked on an independent study project looking at defining extreme precipitation rates in Rochester, NY. He is also going to develop a database of extreme precipitation rates for Rochester going back to the 1950s.He is continuing on to work on a PhD at ...<\/div>
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Derrick <\/span> Murekezi<\/span><\/div>
PhD (GTech)<\/div>
Derrick Murekezi completed his degree from the University of Rochester majoring in Geology. He conducted a senior thesis exploring back arc-geophysics of the Andes mountains region studying igneous thermobarometric properties of the xenoliths collected in the region. He was supervised by Drs. Olugboji and Ibanez-Mejia. He is now completing his Ph.D. at Georgia Tech<\/div>
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Trey<\/span> Brink<\/span><\/div>
Nat. Park Service<\/div>
Trey is a senior at the University of Minnesota, with research experience in Geodynamics. He is investigating mid-lithospheric discontinuities in south-eastern North America using a novel stacking approach of harmonic decomposition of body wave receiver functions. Project details below.<\/div>
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Faner<\/span> Lin<\/span><\/div>
Bloomberg<\/div>
Faner majored in data science and financial economics, with a minor in mathematics at the University of Rochester. She joined the lab in Spring 2020 and worked on detecting low-magnitude seismicity using machine learning and deep learning methods.<\/div>
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Enting<\/span> Zhou<\/span><\/div>
Amazon<\/div>

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.<\/p><\/div>

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Ayla<\/span> Martinelli<\/span><\/div>
EPA<\/div>
Ayla joined the group in Fall 2020 as a project assistant. She worked with Dr. O to ensure the new seismic network in West Africa runs smoothly.<\/div>
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Walter<\/span> Hennings<\/span><\/div>
Nat.General Insurance<\/div>

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.<\/p><\/div>

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Meng<\/span> Wang<\/span><\/div>
RA (Summer 24 - Spring 25)<\/div>

Meng pursued a MS degree in Computer Science at University of Rochester and worked with the lab to optimize CRISP-RF technique with Algorithm Unrolling. His interest lies in computer vision and applying Machine Learning in earth imaging problems.<\/p><\/div>

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James <\/span> Pippin<\/span><\/div>
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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<\/p><\/div>

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Liam <\/span> Shaughnessy<\/span><\/div>
Intern (Summer 2016)<\/div>
Liam is a sophomore at the University of Maryland; He is a physics major interested in both seismology and planetary geology. Liam is continuing Julie's work on Rayleigh wave ellipticity measurements across the entire EarthScope USArray. He is compiling a complete data set of earthquake waveforms while using synthetic waveforms to investigate sources of uncertainties in the measurement.<\/div>
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Qike (Lucia) <\/span> Jiang<\/span><\/div>
NYU<\/div>

Qike is an undergraduate studying data science and economics at the University of Rochester. She has a keen interest in data visualization and probability.<\/p><\/div>

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Julie<\/span> Schnurr<\/span><\/div>
Intern (Summer 2015)<\/div>
Julie worked with me over the summer of 2015. We worked on supplementing ambient noise measurements of ZH ellipticity with those from earthquake data and at longer periods, which provide unique information on lithospheric density. She presented her work at 2015, AGU (Schnurr et al., 2015). She is now a graduate student at the University of Hawaii<\/div>
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Xinxuan (Lucinda)<\/span> Lu<\/span><\/div>
RA ('22)<\/div>

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.<\/p><\/div>

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Kaetu<\/span> Wleh<\/span><\/div>
URISE Intern ('23)<\/div>

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.<\/span><\/p><\/div>

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Jiayue (Joyce)<\/span> Meng<\/span><\/div>
RA ('23)<\/div>

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.<\/span><\/p><\/div>

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Thapasya<\/span> Murali<\/span><\/div>
Research Assistant<\/div>
Thapasya graduated with an Ms in data science from UR. She worked on deep learning, global oceanic body wave imaging and ambient noise tomography. She is currently looking for jobs in the industry.<\/div>
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Emma<\/span> Dickerson<\/span><\/div>
Research Assistant<\/div>
Emma was working on her BA in Data Science at the University of Rochester, concentrating in Earth and Environmental Science. She worked with with us in the Fall 23 session and showed interested in applying machine learning for the prediction and analysis of seismic signals.<\/div>
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Krish<\/span> Jain<\/span><\/div>
Research Assistant<\/div>
Krish is an undergraduate computer science student at UofR. His interests include platform engineering, OS development, and embedded systems. Krish joined us in Fall 2023 and worked briefly with us in projects like 'Earth Imaging with Machine Learning' and 'Seismic Signal Denoising'.<\/div>
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Mai<\/span> Pham<\/span><\/div>
RA (Fall 24-Present)<\/div>

Mai is a senior majoring in Data Science at the University of Rochester. She is passionate about machine learning, statistical analysis and transforming data into impactful solutions<\/p><\/div>

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Helen<\/span> Jackson<\/span><\/div>
RA (Project Support)<\/div>

Helen Jackson is a current senior at the University of Rochester pursuing a B.S. in Computational Biology.\u00a0 She is interested in understanding the connections between computations and the world around her.<\/p><\/div>

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Stephen<\/span> Akinremi<\/span><\/div>
Visiting Student (Fall 24)<\/div>

Stephen<\/span> is a PhD candidate at the University of Twente, Netherlands with degrees in\u00a0 Applied Geophysics and Remote Sensing. He models the subsurface (crust and mantle) using seismological and other geophysical observables (e.g., gravity).<\/p><\/div>

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Aaron<\/span> Shneydman<\/span><\/div>
RA (Fall 24)<\/div>

Aaron is a Junior at the University of Rochester studying Computer Science and Statistics.\u00a0\u00a0 His interests lie in machine learning and seismology.<\/p><\/div>

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Shreyantan<\/span> Chanda<\/span><\/div>
RA (Summer 24)<\/div>

Shreyantan is a junior studying Computer Science and Statistics! He is interested to learn how full scale research is conducted and looks forward to contribute\/learn as much as he can.<\/p><\/div>

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