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.
Jump to postdocs, graduate students, undergraduate researchers, affiliated graduate students, and alumni.
Marine Denolle
Assistant Professor, started Jan 2021
email : mdenolle@uw.edu
PhD : 2014, Stanford University
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