Group Members


We are looking for new PhD students and undergraduate students to join the team (see openings) ! For new applicants and incoming group members, please see our group guidelines. Our group also defined a working contract.

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Marine Denolle


Assistant Professor, started Jan 2021
email : mdenolle@uw.edu
PhD : 2014, Stanford University

  • 2014, Stanford University
  • Postdoc at Scripps Institution of Oceanography - UC San Diego

Postdocs

Kuan-Fu Feng

Postdoc, started June 2023
email : kffeng@uw.edu
PhD : 2022, National Taiwan University
Postdoc Research : Ambient noise seismology, Environmental seismology
Webpage : https://kuanfufeng.github.io/
Github : https://github.com/kuanfufeng

Qibin Shi

Postdoc, started Mar 2022
email : qibins@uw.edu
PhD : Earth Observatory of Singapore
Postdoc Research : Earthquake physics, waveform machine-learning
Webpage :
Github : https://github.com/qibinshi

Ethan Williams

Postdoc, started Jan 2023
email : efwillia@uw.edu
PhD : 2022, Caltech
Postdoc Research : Seismology, fiber-optic sensing, oceanography
Webpage : https://ethanfwilliams.github.io
Github : https://github.com/ethanfwilliams

Stephanie Olinger

Postdoc, July-November 2023
email : stepholinger@fas.harvard.edu
PhD : 2023, Harvard University
Postdoc Research : Distributed Acoustic Sensing, Julia computing, ambient noise monitoring
Webpage : https://stepholinger@github.io
Github : https://github.com/stepholinger

Graduate Students

Congcong Yuan

PhD candidate at Harvard
email: cyuan@fas.harvard.edu
PhD Research : Wavefield simulation, machine learning, laboratory experiments
Webpage : https://congcy.github.io/
Github : https://github.com/congcy

Yiyu Ni

PhD student at University of Washington
email: niyiyu@uw.edu
PhD Research : Distributed Acoustic Sensing, Machine Learning, High-performance Seismology
Webpage : https://niyiyu.github.io
Github : https://github.com/niyiyu

Manuela Koepfli

PhD student at the University of Washington
email: koepflma@uw.edu
PhD Research : Continuous based volcano seismology and Cryoseismology
Webpage :
Github : https://github.com/koepflma

Akash Kharita

PhD student at the University of Washington
email: ak287@uw.edu
PhD Research : Data Mining, surface and earthquake processes
Webpage :
Github : https://github.com/Akashkharita

Undergraduate Researchers

Nick Smoczyk

Undergraduate
email : <>
Degree Institution : Undergraduate
Research : Data mining of volcano-glacio seismic data
Github :

Affiliated Graduate Students

Maleen Kidiwela

Graduate Student at University of Washington
email : seismic@uw.edu
Research : Seismic Tomography, Volcanology, Ocean Bottom Seismology, Volcano-Tectonic Earthquake catalog curation. Machine Learning
Github : https://github.com/MaleenKidiwela

Zoe Krauss

Graduate Student at University of Washington
email : zkrauss@uw.edu
Research : marine active margins, ocean bottom seismology, earthquake catalog curation
Github :

Natasha Toghramadjian

Graduate Student at Harvard
email : <>
Research : Ambient noise seismology, Field seismology, structural seismology
Github :

Zhuo Yang

Graduate Student at Harvard
email : <>
Research : Ambient noise seismology, Continuum Mechanics
Github :

Thibaut Perol

Graduate Student at Harvard
email : <>
Research : Machine Learning, seismology, mechanics
Github :

Alumni

Stephanie Olinger

Date : 2019-2023
Role : PhD, Harvard
Research : Cryoseismology, data mining, icesheet dynamics.
Now at : Soon Thompson Postdoc Fellow at Stanford Universiy

Laura Ermert

Date : 2020-2022
Role : Postdoc, started Jan 2020
Research : Ambient noise seismology, environmental seismology, basin subsidence in Mexico City
Now at : now Postdoc at ETH-Zurich

Tim Clements

Date : 2016-2021
Role : Ph.D. Harvard University
Research : Ambient noise seismology, computational seismology, Julia computing, seismo-hydrology
Now at : now at USGS as a Mendenhall Postdoc

Jiuxun Yin

Date :
Role : Ph.D. at Harvard University
Research : Observation and modeling of earthquake dynamics, in particular subduction zones.
Now at : now at Schlumberger

Dr. Kurama Okubo

Date : 2019-2020 (18 months)
Role : Postdoc
Research : Ambient noise monitoring of Parkfield, Julia in seismology, computational seismology
Now at : Now researcher at NIED

Dr. Loic Viens

Date : 2016-2018 ( 18 months)
Role : Postdoc
Research : ambient noise monitoring, tomography, earthquake damage, virtual earthquakes of offshore subduction-zone earthquakes
Now at : Now researcher at University of Michican

Dr. Xiaotao Yang

Date : 2019-2020 (1 year)
Role : Postdoc
Research : Ambient noise cross correlation of Cascadia data
Now at : Now faculty at Purdue

Dr. Zhitu Ma

Date : 2019 (5 months)
Role : Postdoc
Research : Julia seismology, offshore ambient noise cross correlations
Now at : Now at Tongi University (China)

Dr. Chengxin Jiang

Date : 2018-2019 (2 years)
Role : Postdoc
Research : Ambient noise tomography, computational seismology, sedimentary basin imaging
Now at : Now researcher at Australian National University

Dr. Chris Van Houtte

Date : 2016-2017 (1 year)
Role : Postdoc
Research : Bayesian inference of earthquake source parameters
Now at :

Leore Lavin

Date : 2016-2017 (18 months)
Role : Senior undergraduate research
Research : Virtual Earthquakes on the San Jacinto Fault
Now at : Med School

Julian Schmitt

Date : summer 2020-2021
Role : Undergraduate
Research : Ambient noise seismology, cloud computing
Now at : now Ph.D. student at Caltech

Jared Bryan

Date : 2019 (2+ months)
Role : Summer undergraduate research
Research : Ambient noise monitoring in Parkfield, CA
Now at : now Ph.D. student at MIT

Albert Aguilar

Date : 2018 (2 months)
Role : Summer undergraduate research
Research : Earthquake detection in Costa Rica
Now at : now Ph.D. student at Stanford