Yang Liu
Yang Liu is a postdoctoral fellow at the Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin, and is working with Prof. Sergey Fomel on seismic data processing. Dr. Liu received his M.S. (2003) and Ph.D. (2006) in the College of Geo-Exploration Science and Technology, Jilin University, China. His work has focused on the study of several new seismic processing methods and the velocity structure of underground media in northeast of China. Dr. Liu was a lecturer as an employee at College of Geo-Exploration Science and Technology, Jilin University, through 2006. Dr. Liu is currently involved in a research project on seismic data regularization and noise attenuation using novel transform methods.

Roman Kazinnik
Roman Kazinnik is a postdoctoral fellow at the Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin, and is working with Prof. Sergey Fomel on seismic data processing. Dr. Kazinnik received his Master of Computer Science from Technion, Israel, and his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Tel Aviv University, Israel (2008). His work is focused on Geophysical data analysis, mathematical and computational methods to solve problems in processing of geophysical data and in seismic imaging of the Earth’s interior, and developing new geophysical algorithmic techniques using theoretical seismology, applied mathematics, computational statistics, and signal processing.

Vladimir Bashkardin
Vladimir Bashkardin holds a degree as a Mining Engineer from the Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas, in Moscow, Russia, where he specialized in geophysical methods of mineral exploration. He also was a lecturer there for an undergraduate class. Mr. Bashkardin also worked as a software engineer in the development of seismic interpretation software, and has targeted geophysical applications to GPU architectures. His choice of the University of Texas for his postgraduate career was based on "the unparalleled choice of research opportunities".

William Burnett
Will Burnett received a bachelor's degree in geophysical engineering from the Colorado School of Mines amd a master's degree in geological sciences from the University of Texas under the supervision of Robert Ferguson. He is currently working on a doctorate from our group. His interest is in using unconventional attributes of seismic data to determine the subsurface structure. While Bill had other alternatives for his doctoral work, he chose the University of Texas because of its resources that are "second to none", including faculty, facility and equipment. Besides, he adds, it is "a very cool place".

Xiaolei Song
Xiaolei Song is a recent recipient of a Master's Degree from the Department of Geophysics of Peking University, where she also received a Bachelor of Science degree in 2006. She worked with professor Xiaofei Chen on various projects, including a Master's Thesis "Research on the Effect of Irregular Structure to Inverse Problems of Surface Wave Dispersion Curves". Her choice of Texas was based on several factors, notably including the fact that she had "heard that people are very smart".

Douglas McCowan
Doug McCowan is an independent software consultant who works closely with our group in developing new seismic processing algorithms. He is a co-recipient of the prestigious Gordon Bell Prize in parallel computing. He currently focuses on seismic modeling and efficient development of useful synthetic seismograms.

Jules Browaeys
T. Jules Browaeys works at the Bureau developing computational and theoretical methods for seismic imaging. Dr. Browaeys received his M.Sc. (2001) and Ph.D. (2005) in Geophysics from the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris in France. His thesis focused on theoretical and numerical modeling of seismic anisotropy. Dr. Browaeys was trained as a fundamental physicist, qualified as a physics lecturer in 2000, and received an M.Sc. in physics in 2001. He is currently involved in research projects on seismic migration, angle-domain common image gathers, fractal statistics, and parallel computing. His several year's teaching exerience in Paris (France) include wave and vibration physics, gravimetry, and experimental design.

Hesam Kazameini (Uppsala University)
Hesam (Sayed Hesammoddin) Kazemeini is a visiting student from the Uppsala University in Sweden, specializing in controlled source seusmology. Hesam holds a bachelor's degree in geology, specializing in groundwater hydrology, from Shiraz University in Iran, and a Master's Degree in Geophysics from Tehran University in Iran. He is interested in wavelet analysis, quantitative seismic interpretation, multi-component studies, and reservoir characterization, among others. He says his extended visit to Texas has been an "excellent opportunity".

Guochang Liu (Chinese University of Petroleum)
Guochang Liu is a visiting student from the China University of Petrolem, from which he holds a bachelor's degree in engineering. He has worked on a oroject on "Coupled Fluif Flow and Seismic Wave Propagation for Reservoir Modeling", sponsored by the National Natural Foundation of China, and has coauthored several papers on data transformation schema sucg as wavelets and curvelets. He had heard that the University of Texas is "very good" and has "excellent resources".