Group Members
At this moment, and for the first time of my career, I cannot guarantee funding to incoming students and no longer have funding for postdocs. If graduate student come with 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
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
Congcong Yuan
Date : 2020-2025
Role : PhD, Harvard
Research : Wavefield simulation, machine learning, laboratory experiments
Now at : https://congcy.github.io/
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