About Me

I am an alumni of the Stanford Exploration Project (SEP), with my thesis project on salt body segmentation using level set methodologies.

I completed my undergraduate education at the University of California at Berkeley, where I graduated with a B.S. in civil engineering in 2012. While at Berkeley, I worked as an intern at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the Geophysics department of the Earth Sciences Division during the summer of 2011, initiating my interest in the field of geophysics. I joined SEP in July 2012.

Research Areas

Level sets and shape optimization

My thesis topic at SEP revolved around velocity model building, particularly the problem of identifying salt body boundaries accurately. My work investigated approaches that add value to the understanding of these boundaries, specifically the use of level set methodologies to identify probability bounds for the extent of salt bodies. This approach involves the use of shape optimization methods as a means of updating an implicit surface, which in turn represents a salt body boundary by means of a level set countour. My thesis work can be viewed here.

3D reconstruction using deep neural networks

In collaboration with Shell, I've worked on developing deep neural network (DNN) architectures and workflows for classifying fault planes and salt bodies in earth models. This work was presented at NIPS 2016, and has been published in The Leading Edge both in 2017, and in 2018.