Sergey Fomel
Professional Summary
May 2, 2014
Business address:
E-mail address:
The University of Texas at Austin
Bureau of Economic Geology
University Station, Box X
Austin, Texas 78713-8924
(512) 475-9573
sergey.fomel@beg.utexas.edu
Academic Background
Diploma in Geophysics (with Honors), Novosibirsk University, Novosibirsk, Russia, June 1990
Ph.D. Geophysics, Stanford University, Stanford, California, January 2001
Areas of Expertise
A.
B.
C.
D.
Seismic imaging.
Wave propagation.
Seismic data analysis.
Geophysical estimation.
Professional Work Experience
A. Present Position: Associate Professor; Research Associate Professor, Department of Geological
Sciences; Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin (September 2007 Present).
B. Research Scientist, Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin (January
2004 - August 2007).
C. Present Position: Research Associate, Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at
Austin (June 2002 - December 2003).
D. Postdoctoral Fellow, Computing Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley,
California (January 2001 - June 2002).
E. Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley,
California (January 2002 - May 2002).
F. Research Assistant, Department of Geophysics, Stanford University, Stanford, California
(September 1994 - December 2000).
G. Geophysical Advisor, Geco-Prakla UK, Schlumberger, Gatwick, England (March 1998 September 1998).
Developed software modules for data interpolation and noise attenuation using innovative helical
filtering methods.
H. Assistant Professor, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Novosibirsk
Novosibirsk, Russia (February 1993 - May 1994).
I.
University,
Research Scientist, Institute of Geophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
(November 1990 - September 1994).
Professional Societies
American Geophysical Union
European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE)
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
Society of Exploration Geophysicists
Awards and Honorary Societies
Top 30 presentation at the 82nd Annual International Meeting of SEG: "Wave-equation time
migration", 2013
Top 30 Presentation at the 82nd Annual International Meeting of SEG: "Seismic Data Decomposition
into Spectral Components Using Regularized Nonstationary Autoregression", 2012
Jackson School Outstanding Educator Award, 2012
Top 30 presentation at the 80th SEG Annual Meeting: Local similarity with the envelope as a seismic
phase detector, 2011
Society of Exploration Geophysicists Best Poster Award, 2011
European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers, Conrad Schlumberger Award, 2011
Best Poster Award, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 2011
Conrad Schlumberger Award, European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers, 2011
Top 30 presentation at the 80th SEG Annual Meeting: Seismic wave extrapolation using low-rank
symbol approximation, 2011
Jackson Research Excellence Fellow, Jackson School of Geosciences, 2007 - 2009
Fellowship from John E. "Brick" Elliott Centennial Professorship awarded by Jackson School of
Geosciences, 2009
Top 30 Presentation at the 78th Annual International Meeting of SEG, “Predictive Painting of
3-D Seismic Volumes”, 2009
Honorable Mention, Best Poster Paper Presented at the 2007 Annual International Meeting, Society
of Exploration Geophysicists, 2008
Honorable Mention, Best Poster Paper Presented at the SEG 2007 Annual Meeting for paper titled
"Applications of Nonstationary Regression", 2008
Top 30 Presentation at the 77th Annual International Meeting, Society of Exploration Geophysicists:
Applications of nonstationary regression, 2008
Top 30 Presentation at the 77th Annual International Meeting, Society of Exploration Geophysicists:
Time-lapse image registration using the local similarity attribute, 2008
Research Fellowship, Jackson School of Geosciences, 2006 - 2007
Loránd Eötvös Best Paper Award, European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE), for
"Path-Integral Seismic Imaging," published in Geophysical Prospecting, 2007
Best Poster, 2006 Annual Meeting of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 2007
Who's Who of Emerging Leaders, 2007
Editorial Board Highlights, Inverse Problems, 2007
Special Meritorious Award for Engineering Innovation from Hart’s E&P for “Imaging Ultra Deep
Structures Using Wave Equation Migration and Illumination” (as consultant to 3DGeo Inc.), 2007
Top 30 Presentations at the 2006 SEG Annual International Meeting: "Post-Stack Velocity Analysis by
Separation and Imaging of Seismic Diffractions", 2006
Top 30 Presentations at the 2006 SEG Annual International Meeting: "Towards the Seislet
Transform", 2006
Young Scientist Fellowship, Jackson School of Geosciences, UT Austin, 2005 - 2006
Top 25 Presentations at the 2005 SEG Annual International Meeting, Society of Exploration
Geophysicists, "A Multistep Approach to Multicomponent Seismic Image Registration with
Application to a West Texas Carbonate Reservoir Study", 2006
Top 30 Presentations at the 2006 SEG Annual International Meeting: "Local Seismic Attributes", 2006
Top 25 Presentations at 2004 SEG Annual International Meeting: "Theory of 3-D Angle Gathers",
2004
Honorable Mention, Best Paper in Geophysics, "Angle-Domain Common-Image Gathers by Wavefield
Continuation Methods", 2004
Award of Merit, "Wavefield Extrapolation in Riemannian Coordinates" (Sava and Fomel) presented by
Paul Sava at the 2004 SEG Annual International Meeting, 2004
Honorable Mention, Best Paper in Geophysics, 2003
J. Clarence Karcher Award from the Society of Exploration Geophysicists, for numerous contributions
to seismology, 2001
Award of Merit, "Amplitude-Preserved Common Image Gathers by Wave-Equation Migration" (Sava,
Biondi, and Fomel), presented by Paul Sava at the SEG Annual International Meeting, 2001
Committee Responsibilities and Professional Activities
Chairman, Publications Committee, Society of Exploration Geologists, , 2013 - 2015
Guest Associate Editor, Interpretation Magazine, special issue on diffraction imaging, January, 2013 2013
Member, Distinguished Lecture Committee, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 2013
Member, Promotion Advisory Committee, Bureau of Economic Geology, 2012
District Representative, Council, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 2011 - 2013
Member, Computational Geosciences Committee, Jackson School of Geosciences, 2011
Chairman, Technical Program Committee, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 2010 - 2011
Guest Editor, Special Issue on Seismic Imaging, International Journal of Geophysics, 2010 - 2011
Organizer, Madagascar School on Reproducible Computational Geophysics and Hands-On
Workshop, Petroleum Technology Transfer Council, 2010
Co-Organizer, Minisymposium on Mathematical and Computational Problems of Time-domain
Seismic Imaging, SIAM Conference on Mathematical and Computational Problems in
Geosciences, 2009
Co-Organizer, School on Reproducible Computational Geophysics, Delft University of Technology,
2009
Co-organizer, Reconstruction, Recovery and Interpolation of Multidimensional
Seismic Wave Fields Workshop, EAGE, 2009
Organizer, Regularization Strategies in Applied Geophysical Inverse Problems Minisymposium,
Conference on Applied Inverse Problems, 2009
District Representative, Council, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 2008 - 2011
Member, KAUST-UT Austin Academic Excellence Alliance Faculty Search and Curriculum
Committees, The University of Texas at Austin, 2008 - present
Member, Publications Committee, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 2008 - present
Chair, Translation Committee, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 2007 - present
Co-organizer, - Texas Advanced Computing Center and Bureau of Economic Geology, Scientific
Software Day, 2007
Member, Publication Policy Committee, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 2007 - present
Member, Strategic Council, Jackson School of Geosciences, 2007 - 2010
Member, Technical Program Committee, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 2007
Member, Publications Committee, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 2007 - present
Member, Exploration Geophysics Faculty Search Committee, Department of Geological Sciences,
The University of Texas at Austin, 2007 - 2009
Co-Organizer, - "Reproducible Research in Computational Geophysics", School and Workshop, 2006
Session Chairman, Annual International Meeting, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 2005
Associate Editor, GEOPHYSICS, Seismic Migration and Signal Processing, Seismic Migration and
Signal Processing, 2004 - 2009
Developer and Program Manager, SEGTeX, an open-source LaTeX/BibTeX package for geophysical
publications, Online Governing Board, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 2004
Session Chairman, Annual International Meeting, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 2004
Co-organizer, Workshop, Synthetic Seismograms for Processed Seismic Data and for Seismic Field
Data, Society of Economic Geologists SEG Annual International Meeting, 2003
Co-organizer, minisymposium, Seismic Velocity Analysis, Society for Industrial and Applied
Mathematics (SIAM) Conference on Mathematical and Computational Issues in the Geosciences,
2003
Creator and Program Manager, - an open-source software package for geophysical data analysis,
Madagascar, 2003 - present
Organizer, minisymposium, Geoscience Applications of Dijkstra-Like Methods for Solving HamiltonJacobi Equations, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Conference on
Mathmatical and Computational Issues in the Geosciences, 2003
Session Chair, Oklahoma Geological Survey Conference on Interpreting Reservoir Architecture Using
Scale-Frequency Phenomena, co-sponsored by U.S. Department of Energy and National Energy
Technology Laboratory, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, June, 2003
Member, Translations Committee, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 2000 - present
Publications
Published Interviews
Chopra, Satinder, and Fomel, S. B., 2010, "Geophysics is a hugely rewarding profession": an
interview with Sergey Fomel: CSEG Reporter, v. 35, no. 1, p. 10–15.
Reports, Monographs, Brochures, Pamphlets, Bulletins
Fomel, S. B., and Sava, Paul, 2003, Seismic imaging using Riemannian wavefield extrapolation:
Stanford Exploration Project, SEP-114, 30 p.
Fomel, Sergey, 2002, Applications of plane-wave destructor filters: Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory, SEP-105, 50088, unpaginated.
Sava, Paul, and Fomel, S. B., 2002, Wave-equation migration velocity analysis beyond the Born
approximation: Stanford Exploration Project, SEP-111, 18 p.
Fomel, Sergey, and Sethian, J. A., 2001, Multiple arrivals using Liouville equations: Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory, , unpaginated.
Fomel, Sergey, and Sethian, J. A., 2001, Fast phase space computation of multiple arrivals: Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory, , unpaginated.
Fomel, S. B., and Grechka, V., 2001, Nonhyperbolic reflection moveout of P-waves: an overview and
comparison of reasons: Center for Wave Phenomena, CWP-372,
Fomel, Sergey, 2000, Inverse B-spline interpolation: Stanford Exploration Project, SEP-105, 105, 30
p.
Sava, Paul, and Fomel, S. B., 2000, Angle-gathers by Fourier Transform: Stanford Exploration
Project, SEP-103, 11 p.
Claerbout, J. F., and Fomel, S. B., 2000, Spitz makes a better assumption for the signal PEF:
Stanford Exploration Project, SEP-103, 8 p.
Fomel, S. B., 2000, Seismic data interpolation with the offset continuation equation: Stanford
Exploration Project, SEP-103, 17 p.
Claerbout, J. F., and Fomel, S. B., 2000, Speculations on contouring sparse data: Gaussian
curvature: Stanford Exploration Project, SEP-103, 9 p.
Fomel, S. B., 2000, Helical preconditioning and splines in tension: Stanford Exploration Project, SEP103, 12 p.
Brown, M., Claerbout, J. F., and Fomel, S. B., 2000, Test case for PEF estimation with sparse data II:
Stanford Exploration Project, SEP-105, 5 p.
Fomel, Sergey, and Prucha, Marie, 1999, Angle-gather time migration: Stanford Exploration Project,
SEP-100, 100, 10 p.
Clapp, R. G., Fomel, S. B., and Crawley, S., 1999, Directional smoothing of non-stationary filters:
Stanford Exploration Project, SEP-100, 12 p.
Fomel, S. B., 1999, Velocity continuation in migration velocity analysis: Stanford Exploration Project,
SEP-100, 11 p.
Rickett, J., and Fomel, S. B., 1999, A second-order fast marching eikonal solver: Stanford Exploration
Project, SEP-100, 5 p.
Sava, Paul, and Fomel, S. B., 1999, Spectral factorization revisited: Rickett, J., SEP-100, 7 p.
Clapp, R. G., Fomel, S. B., and Prucha, Marie, 1999, Iterative resolution estimation in Kirchhoff
imaging: Stanford Exploration Project, SEP-102, 11 p.
Vaillant, L., and Fomel, S. B., 1999, On Stolt stretch time migration: Stanford Exploration Project,
SEP-102, 9 p.
Fomel, S. B., 1999, Plane wave prediction in 3-D: Stanford Exploration Project, SEP-102, 10 p.
Prucha, M. L., Clapp, R. G., Fomel, S. B., Claerbout, J. F., and Biondi, B. L., 1999, Reproducible
research—results from SEP-100: Stanford Exploration Project, SEP-102, 3 p.
Fomel, Sergey, 1998, Velocity continuation by spectral methods: Stanford Exploration Project, SEP97, 97, 16 p.
Rickett, J., Claerbout, J. F., and Fomel, S. B., 1998, Implicit 3-D depth migration by wavefield
extrapolation with helical boundary conditions: Stanford Exploration Project, SEP-97, 12 p.
Sun, Y., and Fomel, S. B., 1998, Fast-marching eikonal solver in the tetragonal coordinates: Stanford
Exploration Project, SEP-97, 19 p.
Sava, P., Rickett, J., Fomel, S. B., and Claerbout, Jo. F., 1998, Wilson-Burg spectral factorization with
application to helix filtering: Stanford Exploration Project, SEP-97, 18 p.
Fomel, S. B., 1998, "SEP" module: a Fortran-90 interface to SEPlib: Stanford Exploration Project,
SEP-97, 7 p.
Fomel, Sergey, 1997, Traveltime computation with the linearized eikonal equation: Stanford
Exploration Project, SEP-94, 94, 9 p.
Fomel, Sergey, and Claerbout, J. F., 1997, Exploring three-dimensional implicit wavefield
extrapolation with the helix transform: Stanford Exploration Project, SEP-95, 95, 18 p.
Fomel, Sergey, 1997, A variational formulation of the fast marching eikonal solver: Stanford
Exploration Project, SEP-95, 95, 22 p.
Alkhalifah, T., and Fomel, Sergey, 1997, Residual migration in VTI media using anisotropy
continuation: Stanford Exploration Project, SEP-94, 94, 11 p.
Fomel, S. B., Schwab, M., and Schroeder, J., 1997, Empowering SEP's documents: Stanford
Exploration Project, SEP-94, 22 p.
Biondi, B. L., Fomel, S. B., and Alkhalifah, T., 1997, "Focusing" eikonal equation and global
tomography: Stanford Exploration Project, SEP-95, 15 p.
Fomel, S. B., Clapp, R. G., and Claerbout, J. F., 1997, Solution steering with space-variant filters:
Stanford Exploration Project, SEP-95, 15 p.
Fomel, S. B., 1997, On model-space and data-space regularization: a tutorial: Stanford Exploration
Project, SEP-94, 23 p.
Fomel, S. B., 1997, On the general theory of data interpolation: Stanford Exploration Project, SEP-94,
13 p.
Alkhalifah, T., and Fomel, S. B., 1997, Residual migration in VTI media using anisotropy continuation:
Stanford Exploration Project, SEP-94, 10 p.
Sava, Paul, and Fomel, S. B., 1997, Huygens wavefront tracing: a robust alternative to conventional
ray tracing: Stanford Exploration Project, SEP-95, 12 p.
Fomel, S. B., Clapp, R. G., and Claerbout, J. F., 1997, Missing data interpolation by recursive filter
preconditioning: Stanford Exploration Project, SEP-95, 10 p.
Alkhalifah, T., Fomel, S. B., and Biondi, B. L., 1997, Time-domain anisotropic processing in arbitrarily
inhomogeneous media: Stanford Exploration Project, SEP-95, 22 p.
Fomel, S. B., and Alkhalifah, T., 1997, Implementing the fast marching eikonal solver: spherical
versus Cartesian coordinates: Stanford Exploration Project, SEP-95, 22 p.
Berryman, J. G., and Fomel, Sergey, 1996, Iterative methods of optimization with application to
crosswell tomography: Stanford Exploration Project, , 24 p.
Fomel, S. B., and Claerbout, J. F., 1996, Simple linear operators in Fortran 90: Stanford Exploration
Project, SEP-93, 11 p.
Biondi, B. L., Fomel, S. B., and Chemingui, N., 1996, Application of azimuth moveout to the coherent
partial stacking of a 3-D marine data set: Stanford Exploration Project, SEP-92, 12 p.
Fomel, S. B., and Bleistein, N., 1996, Amplitude preservation for offset continuation: confirmation for
Kirchhoff data: Stanford Exploration Project, SEP-92, 9 p.
Fomel, S. B., 1996, Least-square inversion with inexact adjoints: methods of conjugate directions:
Stanford Exploration Project, SEP-92, 12 p.
Fomel, S. B., 1996, Stacking operators: adjoint versus asymptotic inverse: Stanford Exploration
Project, SEP-92, 25 p.
Fomel, S. B., and Grechka, V., 1996, On nonhyperbolic reflection moveout in anisotropic media:
Stanford Exploration Project, SEP-92, 23 p.
Fomel, S. B., 1996, Migration and velocity analysis by velocity continuation: Stanford Exploration
Project, SEP-92, 29 p.
Biondi, B. L., Fomel, S. B., and Chemingui, N., 1996, Azimuth moveout for 3-D prestack imaging:
Stanford Exploration Project, SEP-93, 29 p.
Fomel, S. B., Crawley, S., and Clapp, R. G., 1996, A generic NMO program: Stanford Exploration
Project, SEP-93, 11 p.
Fomel, Sergey, and Claerbout, J. F., 1995, Searching the Sea of Galilee: The splendors and miseries
of iteratively reweighted least squares: Stanford Exploration Project, SEP-84, 12 p.
Fomel, Sergey, and Biondi, B. L., 1995, Azimuth moveout: the operator parameterization and
antialiasing: Stanford Exploration Project, , 20 p.
Fomel, S. B., 1995, Evaluating the Stolt stretch parameter: Stanford Exploration Project, SEP-84, 13
p.
Fomel, S. B., 1995, Amplitude preserving offset continuation in theory Part 1: the offset continuation
equation: Stanford Exploration Project, SEP-84, 19 p.
Fomel, S. B., and Biondi, B. L., 1995, The time and space formulation of azimuth moveout: Stanford
Exploration Project, SEP-89, 13 p.
Fomel, S. B., 1995, Amplitude preserving offset continuation in theory Part 2: solving the equation:
Stanford Exploration Project, SEP-89, 13 p.
Articles
Peer Reviewed
Fomel, S. B., and Landa, E., 2014, Structural uncertainty of time-migrated seismic images: Journal of
Applied Geophysics, v. 101, p. 27-30, doi: 10.1016/j.jappgeo.2013.11.010.
Li, S., and Fomel, S. B., 2013, Kirchhoff migration using eikonal-based computation of traveltime
source derivatives: Geophysics, v. 78, no. 4, p. S211-S219.
Liu, Y., and Fomel, S. B., 2013, Seismic data analysis using local time-frequency decomposition:
Geophysical Prospecting, v. 61, p. 516–525.
Chen, Z., Fomel, S. B., and Lu, W., 2013, Accelerated plane-wave destruction: Geophysics, v. 78, no.
1, p. V1‒V9.
Klokov, A., and Fomel, S. B., 2013, Selecting an optimal aperture in Kirchhoff migration using dipangle images: Geophysics, v. 78, no. 6, p. S243–S254.
Li, S., Vladimirsky, A., and Fomel, S. B., 2013, First-break traveltime tomography with the doublesquare-root eikonal equation: Geophysics, v. 78, no. 6, p. U89-U101
Fomel, S. B., Sava, C. S., Vlad, I., Liu, Yang, and Bashkardin, V., 2013, Madagascar: Open-source
software project for multidimensional data analysis and reproducible computational experiments:
Journal of Open Research Software, v. 1, no. 8, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/jors.ag.
Chen, Z., Fomel, S. B., and Lu, W., 2013, Omnidirectional plane-wave destruction: Geophysics, v. 78,
V171–V179.
Cai, Y., Fomel, S. B., and Zeng, Hongliu, 2013, Automated spectral recomposition with application in
stratigraphic interpretation: Interpretation, v. 1, no. 1, p. SA109–SA116.
Hu, J.-W., Fomel, S. B., Demanet, L., and Ying, L., 2013, A fast butterfly algorithm for generalized
Radon transforms: Geophysics, v. 78, U41–U51.
Song, X., Fomel, S. B., and Ying, L., 2013, Lowrank finite-differences and lowrank Fourier finitedifferences for seismic wave extrapolation in the acoustic approximation: Geophysical Journal
International, v. 193, p. 960–969.
Saragiotis, C., Alkhalifah, T., and Fomel, S. B., 2013, Automatic traveltime picking using
instantaneous traveltime: Geophysics, v. 78, no. 2, p. T53-T58.
Fomel, S. B., Ying, L., and Song, X., 2013, Seismic wave extrapolation using lowrank symbol
approximation: Geophysical Prospecting, v. 61, 526–536.
Zhang, R., Song, X., Fomel, S. B., Sen, M. K., and Srinivasan, S., 2013, Time-lapse seismic data
registration and inversion for CO2 sequestration study at Cranfield: Geophysics, v. 78, no. 6, p.
B329–B338.
Fomel, S. B., and Kazinnik, R., 2013, Non-hyperbolic common reflection surface: Geophysical
Prospecting, v. 61, p. 21‒27.
Fomel, S. B., 2013, Seismic data decomposition into spectral components using regularized
nonstationary autoregression: Geophysics, v. 78, no. 6, p. O69–O76.
Stovas, A. M., and Fomel, S. B., 2012, Shifted hyperbola moveout approximation revisited:
Geophysical Prospecting, v. 60, p. 395‒399.
Klokov, A., and Fomel, S. B., 2012, Separation and imaging of seismic diffractions using migrated dipangle gathers: Geophysics, v. 77, no. 6, p. S131‒S143.
Stovas, A. M., and Fomel, S. B., 2012, Generalized nonelliptic moveout approximation in τ-ρ domain:
Geophysics, v. 77, no. 2, p. U23‒U30.
Alkhalifah, T., and Fomel, S. B., 2011, The basic components of residual migration in VTI media using
anisotropy: Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology, v. 1, p. 17‒22.
Liu, G., Fomel, S. B., and Chen, X., 2011, Time-frequency analysis of seismic data using local
attributes: Geophysics, v. 76, no. 6, p. P23‒P34.
Casasanta, L., and Fomel, S. B., 2011, Velocity-independent tau-p moveout in a horizontally layered
VTI medium: Geophysics, v. 76, no. 4, p. U45‒U57.
Alkhalifah, T., and Fomel, S. B., 2011, Angle gathers in wave-equation imaging for transversely
isotropic media: Geophysical Prospecting, v. 59, p. 422–431.
Fomel, S. B., 2011, Theory of 3-D angle gathers in wave-equation seismic imaging: Journal of
Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology, v. 1, p. 11‒16.
Liu, Y., and Fomel, S. B., 2011, Seismic data interpolation beyond aliasing using regularized
nonstationary autoregression: Geophysics, v. 76, no. 5, p. V69‒V77.
Liu, G., Fomel, S. B., and Chen, X., 2011, Stacking angle-domain common-image gathers for
normalization of illumination: Geophysical Prospecting, v. 59, p. 244‒255.
Janson, X., and Fomel, S. B., 2011, 3-D forward seismic model of an outcrop-based geocellular
model: SEPM Concepts in Sedimentology and Paleontology No. 10, p. 87‒106.
Song, X., and Fomel, S. B., 2011, Fourier finite-difference wave propagation: Geophysics, v. 76, no.
5, p. T123‒T129.
Burnett, W., and Fomel, S. B., 2011, Azimuthally anisotropic 3D velocity continuation: International
Journal of Geophysics, Article ID 484653.
Liu, Yang, Fomel, S. B., and Liu, Guochang, 2010, Nonlinear structure-enhancing filtering using
plane-wave prediction: Geophysical Prospecting, v. 58, 415‒427, doi: 10.1111/j.13652478.2009.00840.x.
Fomel, S. B., and Stovas, A. M., 2010, Generalized nonhyperbolic moveout approximation:
Geophysics, v. 75, no. 2, p. U9–U18.
Kazemeini, S. H., Yang, C., Juhlin, C., Fomel, S. B., and Cosma, C., 2010, Enhancing seismic data
using the prestack blueing technique: an example from the Ketzin CO2 injection site, Germany:
Geophysics, v. 75, no. 6, p. V101–V110.
Fomel, S. B., 2010, Predictive painting of 3D seismic volumes: Geophysics v. 75, no. 4, p. A25–A30.
Kazemeini, S. H., Juhlin, C., and Fomel, S. B., 2010, Monitoring CO2 response on surface seismic
data; a rock physics and seismic modeling feasibility study at the CO2 sequestration site, Ketzin,
Germany: Journal of Applied Geophysics, v. 71, p. 109–124.
Fomel, S. B., and Liu, Yang, 2010, Seislet transform and seislet frame: Geophysics, v. 75, no. 3, p.
V25–V38.
Liu, Y., and Fomel, S. B., 2010, OC-seislet: seislet transform construction with differential offset
continuation: Geophysics, v. 75, no. 6, p. WB235‒WB245.
Alkhalifah, T., and Fomel, S. B., 2010, An eikonal-based formulation for traveltime perturbation with
respect to the source location: Geophysics, v. 75, no. 6, p. T175–T183.
Fomel, S. B., 2009, Velocity analysis using AB semblance: Geophysical Prospecting, v. 57, p. 311–
321.
Fomel, S. B., ed., 2009, Adaptive multiple subtraction using regularized nonstationary regression:
Geophysics, v. 74, no. 1, p. V25–V33.
Fomel, S., and Jin, Long, 2009, Time-lapse image registration using the local similarity attribute:
Geophysics, v. 74, p. A7–A11.
Browaeys, T. J., and Fomel, S., 2009, Fractal heterogeneities in sonic logs and low-frequency
scattering attenuation: Geophysics, v. 74, no. 2, p. WA77–WA92.
Liu, Guochang, Fomel, S. B., Jin, Long, and Chen, Xiaohong, 2009, Stacking seismic data using local
correlation: Geophysics, v. 74, no. 3, p. V43–V48.
Fomel, S., Luo, S., and Zhao, H., 2009, Fast sweeping method for the factored eikonal equation:
Journal of Computational Physics, v. 228, p. 6440–6455.
Cameron, M. K., Fomel, S. B., and Sethian, J. A., 2009, Analysis and algorithms for a regularized
cauchy problem arising from a non-linear elliptic PDE for seismic velocity estimation: Journal of
Computational Physics, v. 228, p. 7388–7411.
Burnett, W., and Fomel, S. B., 2009, 3-D velocity-independent elliptically anisotropic moveout
correction: Geophysics, v. 74, WB129–WB136.
Ying, L., and Fomel, S. B., 2009, Fast computation of partial Fourier transforms: Multiscale Modeling
& Simulation, v. 8, no. 1, p. 110–124.
Van der Baan, M., and Fomel, S. B., 2009, Nonstationary phase estimation using regularized local
kurtosis maximization: Geophysics, v. 74, no. 6, p. A75–A80.
Cameron, Maria, Fomel, Sergey, and Sethian, James, 2008, Time-to-depth conversion and seismic
velocity estimation using time-migration velocity: Geophysics, v. 73, no. 5, p. VE205–VE210.
Sava, Paul, and Fomel, Sergey, 2008, High-order kernels for Riemannian wavefield extrapolation:
Geophysical Prospecting, v. 56, p. 49–60.
Rosales, D. A., Fomel, Sergey, Biondi, B. L., and Sava, P. C., 2008, Wave-equation angle-domain
common-image gathers for converted waves: Geophysics, v. 73, no. 1, p. S-17–S26.
Fomel, Sergey, Landa, Evgeny, and Taner, M. T., 2007, Poststack velocity analysis by separation and
imaging of seismic diffractions: Geophysics, v. 72, no. 8, p. U-89–U94.
Fomel, Sergey, 2007, Shaping regularization in geophysical-estimation problems: Geophysics, v. 72,
no. 2, p. R29–R36.
Fomel, Sergey, 2007, Velocity-independent time-domain seismic imaging using local event slopes:
Geophysics, v. 72, no. 3, p. S139–S147.
Fomel, Sergey, 2007, Local seismic attributes: Geophysics, v. 72, no. 3, p. A29–A33.
Cameron, M. K., Fomel, S. B., and Sethian, J. A., 2007, Seismic velocity estimation from time
migration: Inverse Problems, v. 23, p. 1329–1369.
Zhang, Linbin, Rector, J. W., Hoversten, G. M., and Fomel, Sergey, 2007, Split-step complex PadéFourier depth migration: Geophysics Journal International, v. 171, p. 1308–1313.
Lomask, Jesse, Guitton, A., Fomel, S. B., Claerbout, Jon, and Valenciano, A. A., 2006, Flattening
without picking: Geophysics, v. 71, no. 4, p. 13–20.
Landa, E., Fomel, S. B., and Moser, T. J., 2006, Path-integral seismic imaging: Geophysical
Prospecting, v. 54, p. 491–503.
Sava, Paul, and Fomel, Sergey, 2006, Time-shift imaging condition in seismic migration: Geophysics,
v. 71, no. 6, p. S209–S217.
Fomel, S. B., and Guitton, A., 2006, Regularizing seismic inverse problems by model
reparameterization using plane-wave construction: Geophysics, v. 71, no. 5, p. A43–A47.
Sava, Paul, and Fomel, Sergey, 2005, Riemannian wavefield extrapolation: Geophysics, v. 70, no. 3,
p. T45–T56.
Fomel, Sergey, 2004, On anelliptic approximations for qP velocities in VTI media: Geophysical
Prospecting, v. 52, p. 247–259.
Fomel, S. B., Sava, Paul, Rickett, J., and Claerbout, J. F., 2003, The Wilson–Burg method of spectral
factorization with application to helical filtering: Geophysical Prospecting, v. 51, p. 409–420.
Fomel, S. B., 2003, Time-migration velocity analysis by velocity continuation: Geophysics, v. 68, no.
5, p. 1662–1672.
Fomel, S. B., 2003, Velocity continuation and the anatomy of residual prestack time migration:
Geophysics, v. 68, no. 5, p. 1650–1661.
Sava, P. C., and Fomel, S., 2003, Angle-domain common image gathers by wavefield continuation
methods: Geophysics, v. 68, no. 3, p. 1065–1074.
Fomel, S. B., Sava, P. C., Rickett, J., and Claerbout, J. F., 2003, The Wilson-Burg method of spectral
factorization with application to helical filtering: Geophysical Prospecting, v. 51, p. 409–420.
Fomel, Sergey, and Claerbout, J. F., 2003, Multidimensional recursive filter preconditioning in
geophysical estimation problems: Geophysics, v. 68, no. 2, p. 577–588.
Fomel, Sergey, 2003, Theory of differential offset continuation: Geophysics, v. 68, no. 2, p. 718–732.
Fomel, Sergey, 2003, Seismic reflection data interpolation with differential offset and shot
continuation: Geophysics, v. 68, no. 2, p. 733–744.
Fomel, Sergey, 2003, Asymptotic pseudounitary stacking operators: Geophysics, v. 68, no. 3, p.
1032–1042.
Fomel, Sergey, 2002, Antialiasing of Kirchoff operators by reciprocal parameterization: Journal of
Seismic Exploration, v. 10, p. 293–310.
Fomel, Sergey, 2002, Applications of plane-wave destruction filters: Geophysics, v. 67, no. 6, p.
1946–1960.
Fomel, Sergey, and Sethian, J. A., 2002, Fast-phase space computation of multiple arrivals:
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, v. 99, no. 11, p. 7329–7334.
Fomel, Sergey, Berryman, J. G., Clapp, R. G., and Prucha, Marie, 2002, Iterative resolution
estimation in least-squares Kirchhoff migration: Geophysical Prospecting, v. 50, p. 577–588.
Sava, P. C., and Fomel, S. B., 2001, 3-D traveltime computation by Huygens wavefront tracing:
Geophysics, v. 66, no. 3, p. 883–889.
Alkhalifah, T., Fomel, Sergey, and Biondi, B., 2001, The space-time domain: theory and modelling for
anisotropic media: Geophysical Journal International, v. 144, p. 105–113.
Alkhalifah, T., and Fomel, Sergey, 2001, Implementing the fast marching eikonal solver: spherical
versus Cartesian coordinates: Geophysical Prospecting, v. 49, no. 2, p. 165–178.
Fomel, Sergey, and Vaillant, L., 2001, Evaluating the Stolt-stretch parameter: Journal of Seismic
Exploration, v. 9, p. 319–335.
Fomel, Sergey, and Bleistein, N., 2001, Amplitude preservation for offset continuation: confirmation
for Kirchhoff data: Journal of Seismic Exploration, v. 10, p. 121–130.
Biondi, B. L., Fomel, Sergey, and Chemingui, N., 1998, Azimuth moveout for 3-D prestack imaging:
Geophysics, v. 63, no. 5, p. 574–588.
Stovas, A. M., and Fomel, S. B., 1996, Integral kinematically equivalent DMO operators: Russian
Geology and Geophysics, v. 37, no. 2, p. 102–113.
Goldin, S. V., and Fomel, S. B., 1995, Estimation of reflection coefficient in DMO: Russian Geology
and Geophysics, v. 36, no. 4, p. 103–115.
Fomel, S. B., 1994, Recurrent formulas for the derivatives of a CDP traveltime curve: Russian
Geology and Geophysics, v. 35, no. 2, p. 129–137.
Fomel, S. B., 1994, To estimation of convergence for iterative traveltime inversion algorithm in layered
media: Russian Geology and Geophysics, v. 35, no. 4, p. 99–111.
Fomel, S. B., 1994, Method of velocity continuation in seismic time migration: Russian Geology and
Geophysics, v. 35, no. 5, p. 100–111.
Fomel, S. B., 1994, Kinematically equivalent differential operator for offset continuation of seismic
sections: Russian Geology and Geophysics, v. 35, no. 9, p. 122–134.
Non-Peer-Reviewed
Van der Baan, M., Fomel, S. B., and Perz, M., 2011, Play analysis: a complementary tool to spectral
decomposition? in Attributes: new views on seismic imaging—their use in exploration and
production: GCSSEPM Annual Convention, p. 251‒258.
Fomel, S. B., and Yale Law School Roundtable on Data and Code Sharing, 2010, Reproducible
research: addressing the need for data and code sharing in computational science: computing in
Science and Engineering, v. 12, no. 5, 8–13.
Van der Baan, M., Fomel, S. B., and Perz, M., 2010, Nonstationary phase estimation: a tool for
seismic interpretation? The Leading Edge, September, p. 1020–1026.
Laubach, S. E., Olson, J. E., Eichhubl, P., Fomel, S. B., and Marrett, R. A., 2010, Natural fractures
from the perspective of diagenesis: CSEG Recorder, September, p. 26–31.
Liu, G., Fomel, S. B., and Chen, Xiaohong, 2009, Time-frequency characterization using local
attributes, in 79th Annual International Meeting, SEG, p. 1826–1829.
Fomel, S. B., and Tanushev, N., 2009, Time-domain seismic imaging using beams, in 79th Annual
International Meeting, SEG, p. 2747–2752.
Alkhalifah, T., and Fomel, S. B., 2009, Angle gathers in wave-equation imaging for VTI media, in 79th
Annual International Meeting, SEG, p. 2899–2903.
Liu, G., Fomel, S. B., and Chen, Xiaohong, 2009, Stacking angle-domain common-image gathers for
normalization of illumination, in 79th Annual International Meeting, SEG, p. 2949–2954.
Liu, Yang, Fomel, S. B., and Liu, G., 2009, Structure-enhancing nonlinear filtering of seismic images,
in 79th Annual International Meeting, SEG, p. 3223–3227.
Liu, Yang, and Fomel, S. B., 2009, OC-seislet: seislet transform construction with differential offset
continuation, in 79th Annual International Meeting, SEG, p. 3228–3232.
Fomel, S. B., and Kazinnik, R., 2009, Non-hyperbolic common reflection surface, in 79th Annual
International Meeting, SEG, p. 3620–3624.
Burnett, W., and Fomel, S. B., 2009, Moveout analysis by time-warping, in 79th Annual International
Meeting, SEG, p. 3710–3714.
Fomel, S., and Claerbout, J. F., 2008, Reproducible research: guest editors' introduction: Computing
in Science & Engineering, January/February, p. 5–7.
Fomel, S. B., and Hennenfent, G., 2007, Reproducible computational experiments using Scons, in
32nd International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), IV/1257–
1260.
Lomask, Jesse, and Fomel, Sergey, 2006, Short Note: Flattening with cosine transforms, in Stanford
Exploration Project, Report SEP-124, February 16, p. 129–134.
Rosales, D. A., Fomel, Sergey, Biondi, B. L., and Sava, P. C., 2006, Wave-equation angle-domain
common-image gathers for converted waves: Part 2, in Stanford Exploration Project, Report SEP124, February 16, p. 135–150.
Sava, Paul, and Fomel, Sergey, 2006, Generalized imaging conditions for wave-equation migration:
Colorado School of Mines, Center for Wave Phenomena, Project Review, CWP-524, 10 p.
Popovici, A. M., Crawley, S., Lupascu, C., Li, Y., Zhang, Y., and Fomel, S. B., 2006, Imaging ultradeep geologic structures using wave equation migration and illumination: GasTIPS, v. 12, no. 3,
p. 12–16.
Lomask, Jesse, Guitton, Antoine, Fomel, Sergey, and Claerbout, Jon, 2005, Update on flattening
without picking, in Stanford Exploration Project, Report 120, p. 137–159.
Artman, Brad, and Fomel, Sergey, 2005, Fourier-domain imaging condition for shot-profile migration,
in Stanford Exploration Project, Report 120, p. 325–332.
Guitton, Antoine, Lomask, Jesse, and Fomel, Sergey, 2005, Non-linear estimation of vertical delays
with a quasi-Newton method, in Stanford Exploration Project, Report 120, p. 167–179.
Abstracts
Fang, G., and Fomel, S. B., 2013, Seismic wave extrapolation on a staggered grid using lowrank
decomposition and lowrank finite-differences: 83rd Annual International Meeting, SEG, 3433–
3438.
Karimi, P., and Fomel, S. B., 2013, Computing volumetric-curvature attributes using predictive
painting: 83rd Annual International Meeting, SEG, 1477–1482.
Sun, J., and Fomel, S. B., 2013, Lowrank one-step wave extrapolation: 83rd Annual International
Meeting, SEG, 3905–3910.
Karimi, P., and Fomel, S. B., 2013, Predictive coherency: 83rd Annual International Meeting, SEG,
1492–1497.
Yang, X., Lu, Jianfeng, and Fomel, S. B., 2013, Seismic modeling using the frozen Gaussian
approximation: 83rd Annual International Meeting, SEG, 4677–4682.
Hu, J., Fomel, S. B., and Ying, L., 2013, A fast algorithm for 3D azimuthally anisotropic velocity scan:
83rd Annual International Meeting, SEG, 4795-4799.
Fomel, S. B., and Klokov, A., 2013, Seismic diffraction imaging, one migration dip at a time: 83rd
Annual International Meeting, SEG, 3697–3702.
Alkhalifah, T., Wu, Z., and Fomel, S. B., 2013, Exploring imaging capabilities of the extended prestack
wavefield: 83rd Annual International Meeting, SEG, 3877–3881.
Decker, L., Klokov, A., and Fomel, S. B., 2013, Comparison of seismic diffraction imaging techniques:
plane wave destruction versus apex destruction: 83rd Annual International Meeting, SEG, 4054–
4059.
Li, S., and Fomel, S. B., 2013, A robust approach to time-to-depth conversion in the presence of
lateral velocity variations: 83rd Annual International Meeting, SEG, 4800-4805.
Chen, Y., Fomel, S. B., and Hu, J., 2013, Iterative deblending of simultaneous-source seismic data
using shaping regularization: 83rd Annual International Meeting, SEG, 119–125.
Zhang, R., Song, X., Fomel, S. B., Sen, M. K., and Srinivasan, S., 2013, Time-lapse seismic
registration and inversion for CO2 sequestration study at Cranfield, Part II: Pre-stack Analysis:
83rd Annual International Meeting, SEG, 5015-5020.
Fomel, S. B., 2013, Wave-equation time migration: 83rd Annual International Meeting, SEG, 3703–
3708.
Cheng, J., and Fomel, S. B., 2013, Fast algorithms for elastic-wave-mode separation and vector
decomposition using low-rank approximation for anisotropic media: 83rd Annual International
Meeting, SEG, 991–997.
Bashkardin, V., Browaeys, T. J., Fomel, S. B., Gao, F., Kazinnik, Roman, Morton, S. A., Terentyev,
S., Vladimirsky, A., and Williamson, P., 2012, Phase-space computation of multi-arrival
traveltimes, Part I: Theory and concepts (ext. abs.), in 82nd Annual International Meeting, SEG,
http://dx.doi.org/10.1190/segam2012-1537.1.
Li, S., Fomel, S. B., and Vladimirsky, A., 2012, Prestack first-break traveltime tomography using the
double-square-root eikonal equation (ext. abs.), in 82nd Annual International Meeting, SEG,
http://dx.doi.org/10.1190/segam2012-0773.1.
Klokov, A., and Fomel, S. B., 2012, Diffraction imaging in the dip-angle domain: Viking Graben case
study (ext. abs.), in EAGE 73rd Conference and Exhibition, Y025.
Fomel, S. B., 2012, Seismic data decomposition into spectral components using regularized
nonstationary autoregression (ext. abs.), in 82nd Annual International Meeting, SEG,
http://dx.doi.org/10.1190/segam2012-1416.1.
Hu, J., Demanet, L., Fomel, S. B., and Ying, L., 2012, A fast butterfly algorithm for the hyperbolic
Radon
transform
(ext.
abs.),
in
82nd
Annual
International
Meeting,
SEG,
http://dx.doi.org/10.1190/segam2012-0462.1.
Bashkardin, V., Browaeys, T. J., Fomel, S. B., Gao, F., Morton, S. A., Terentyev, S., and Vladimirsky,
A., 2012, Phase-space computation of multi-arrival traveltimes: Part II—Implementation and
application to angle-domain imaging (ext. abs.), in 82nd Annual International Meeting, SEG,
http://dx.doi.org/10.1190/segam2012-1522.1.
Klokov, A., and Fomel, S. B., 2012, Optimal migration aperture for conflicting dips (ext. abs.), in 82nd
Annual International Meeting, SEG, http://dx.doi.org/10.1190/segam2012-0504.1.
Ghosh, S., and Fomel, S. B., 2012, Multiple suppession in the t-x-p domain (ext. abs.), in 82nd Annual
International Meeting, SEG, http://dx.doi.org/10.1190/segam2012-1398.1.
Song, X., and Fomel, S. B., 2012, Lowrank finite-differences and lowrank Fourier finite-differences for
seismic wave extrapolation (ext. abs.), in EAGE 73rd Conference and Exhibition, P215.
Tao, Y., Davidson, M., Swan, H., Fomel, S. B., Malloy, J., Howell, J., Chiu, S., and Olson, R., 2012,
Constrained simultaneous automatic picking for VVAZ analysis (ext. abs.), in 82nd Annual
International Meeting, SEG, http://dx.doi.org/10.1190/segam2012-0271.1.
Cai, Y., Fomel, S. B., and Zeng, Hongliu, 2012, Spectral recomposition using separable non-linear
least
squares
(ext.
abs.),
in
82nd
Annual
International
Meeting,
SEG,
http://dx.doi.org/10.1190/segam2012-0528.1.
Burnett, W. A., and Fomel, S. B., 2011, Diffraction imaging using 3D azimuthally anisotropic velocity
continuation (ext. abs.), in Vienna '11, 73rd EAGE Conference & Exhibition incorporating SPE
EUROPE 2011, Vienna, Austria, May 23‒26, abstract B026.
Song, X., and Fomel, S. B., 2010, Fourier finite-difference wave propagation (exp. abs.), in 80th
Annual International Meeting, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, p. 3204–3209.
Liu, Yang, and Fomel, S. B., 2010, Local time-frequency transform and its application to ground-roll
noise attenuation (exp. abs.), in 80th Annual International Meeting, Society of Exploration
Geophysicists, p. 3711–3716.
Alkhalifah, T., and Fomel, S. B., 2010, Source-receiver two-way wave extrapolation for prestack
exploding-reflector modeling and migration (exp. abs.), in 80th Annual International Meeting,
Society of Exploration Geophysicists, p. 2950–2955.
Van der Baan, M., Perz, M., and Fomel, S. B., 2010, Nonstationary phase estimation: a tool for
seismic interpretation? (exp. abs.), in GeoCanada Conference, Working with the Earth, Abstract
No. 884, 3 p.
Burnett, W., and Fomel, S. B., 2010, Azimuthally anisotropic 3D velocity continuation (exp. abs.), in
80th Annual International Meeting, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, p. 307–312.
Van der Baan, M., Perz, M., and Fomel, S. B., 2010, Nonstationary phase estimation for analysis of
wavelet character (ext. abs.), in 72nd EAGE Conference & Exhibition incorporating SPE EUROPE
2010, Barcelona, June 14–17, Abstract D020, 5 p.
Laubach, S. E., Ellis, M., Hargrove, P., Eichhubl, P., Fall, A., and Fomel, S. B., 2010, Contrasts in
fracture array intensity, connectivity, and porosity associated with faults in tight fluvial and marine
sandstones: evidence from outcrop analogs and core (abs.), in AAPG International Conference:
The geology of unconventional gas plays: The Geological Society, London, October 5–6, p. 53–
54.
Liu, Yang, and Fomel, S. B., 2010, Trace interpolation beyond aliasing using regularized
nonstationary autoregression (exp. abs.), in 80th Annual International Meeting, Society of
Exploration Geophysicists, p. 3662–3667.
Al-Dajani, A., and Fomel, S. B., 2010, Fractures detection using multi-azimuth diffractions focusing
measure: is it feasible? (exp. abs.), in 80th Annual International Meeting, Society of Exploration
Geophysicists, p. 287–291.
Fomel, S. B., Ying, L., and Song, X., 2010, Seismic wave extrapolation using low rank symbol
approximation (exp. abs.), in 80th Annual International Meeting, Society of Exploration
Geophysicists, p. 3092–3096.
Fomel, S. B., and Van der Baan, M., 2010, Local similarity with the envelope as a seismic phase
detector (exp. abs.), in 80th Annual International Meeting, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, p.
1555–2559.
Stovas, A. M., and Fomel, S. B., 2010, Generalized moveout approximation in the tau-p domain (exp.
abs.), in 80th Annual International Meeting, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, p. 253–257.
Casasanta, L., and Fomel, S. B., 2010, VTI interval velocities by predictive painting in the tau-p
domain (exp. abs.), in 80th Annual International Meeting, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, p.
232–237.
Casasanta, L., and Fomel, S. B., 2010, Velocity-independent "tau"-p moveout in a layered VTI
medium (ext. abs.), in 72nd EAGE Conference & Exhibition incorporating SPE EUROPE 2010,
Barcelona, June 14–17, Abstract C030, 5 p.
Liu, Yang, and Fomel, S. B., 2009, Structure-enhancing LUM filtering for seismic images (ext. abs.), in
71st EAGE Conference & Exhibition, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 8–11.
Janson, Xavier, and Fomel, S. B., 2009, 3-D seismic expression of karst using 3-D synthetic seismic
model of modern analogs (abs.): American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual
Convention, v. 18, p. 107.
Kezameini, H., Fomel, S. B., and Juhlin, C., 2008, Prestack spectral blueing: a tool for increasing
seismic resolution (ext. abs.), in Society of Exploration Geophysicists 78th Annual International
Meeting, p. 854–858.
Fomel, S. B., 2008, Predictive painting of 3-D seismic volumes (ext. abs.), in Society of Exploration
Geophysicists 78th Annual International Meeting, p. 864–868.
Fomel, S. B., 2008, Nonlinear shaping regularization in geophysical inverse problems (ext. abs.), in
Society of Exploration Geophysicists 78th Annual International Meeting, p. 2046–2051.
Landa, E., Fomel, S. B., and Reshef, M., 2008, Separation, imaging, and velocity analysis of seismic
diffractions using migrated dip-angle gathers (ext. abs.), in Society of Exploration Geophysicists
78th Annual International Meeting, p. 2176–2180.
Fomel, S. B., and Liu, Y., 2008, Seismic data analysis with one-dimensional seislet frame: (ext. abs.),
in Society of Exploration Geophysicists 78th Annual International Meeting, p. 2581–2585.
Burnett, W., and Fomel, S. B., 2008, 3-D velocity-independent elliptically anisotropic moveout
correction (ext. abs.), in Society of Exploration Geophysicists 78th Annual International Meeting,
p. 2952–2956.
Burnett, W., and Fomel, S. B., 2008, A Gaussian beam analysis of the Radon transform (ext. abs.), in
Society of Exploration Geophysicists 78th Annual International Meeting, p. 2993–2997.
Fomel, S. B., 2008, Adaptive multiple subtraction using regularized nonstationary regression (ext.
abs.), in Society of Exploration Geophysicists 78th Annual International Meeting, p. 3639–3642.
Kazemeini, S. H., Fomel, S. B., and Juhlin, C., 2008, Prestack spectral blueing: a tool for increasing
seismic resolution (abs.), in SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas.
Popovici, A. M., Crawley, Sean, Li, Yining, Lupascu, Cristian, and Fomel, Sergey, 2007, Imaging ultra
deep geologic structures using wave equation migration and illumination (ext. abs.), in 10th
International Congress of the Brazilian Geophysical Society, Rio de Janeiro, November 19–22 [4
p.].
Fomel, S. B., Taner, M. T., Treitel, S., and Al-Chalabi, M., 2007, An offset dependent NMO velocity
model (ext. abs.), in EAGE 69th Conference & Exhibition—London, UK, 11–14 June, P036, 5 p.
Fomel, Sergey, and Jin, Long, 2007, Time-lapse image registration using the local similarity attribute
(ext. abs.), in SEG/San Antonio Annual Meeting, p. 2979–2983.
Fomel, Sergey, 2007, Applications of nonstationary regression (ext. abs.), in SEG/San Antonio Annual
Meeting, p. 1962–1966.
Browaeys, T. J., and Fomel, Sergey, 2007, Directional analysis of the wave-equation imaging
condition (ext. abs.), in SEG/San Antonio Annual Meeting, p. 2250–2254.
Cameron, M. S., Fomel, S. B., and Sethian, J. A., 2007, Inverse problem in seismic imaging, in
Proceedings, Applied Mathematic Mechanics, 7, 1024803–1024804.
Janson, Xavier, Zeng, Hongliu, Kerans, Charles, Wang, Fred, and Fomel, Sergey, 2007, Using
outcrop-based 3D geocellular model as seismic benchmark: prestack seismic modeling of
grainstones in Lawyer Canyon (Permian) outcrop, Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico (abs.):
American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Convention Abstracts Volume, v. 16, p. 70.
Fomel, S. B., 2007, Generalized non-hyperbolic moveout approximation (ext. abs.), in EAGE 69th
Conference & Exhibition—London, UK, 11–14 June, B041, 5 p.
Browaeys, T. J., and Fomel, S. B., 2007, Seismic attenuation in a von Karman correlated medium
(ext. abs.), in EAGE 69th Conference & Exhibition—London, UK, 11–14 June, P261, 5 p.
Sava, P. C., and Fomel, S., 2006, Generalized imaging conditions for wave-equation migration (exp.
abs.), in EAGE 68th Conference & Exhibition, Vienna, Austria, Paper G-014, 5 p.
Fomel, Sergey, 2006, Towards the seislet transform (ext. abs.), in SEG/New Orleans 2006 Annual
Meeting: Society of Engineering Geologists, p. 2847–2851.
Fomel, Sergey, Landa, Evgeny, and Taner, M. T., 2006, Post-stack velocity analysis by separation
and imaging of seismic diffractions (ext. abs.), in SEG/New Orleans 2006 Annual Meeting:
Society of Engineering Geologists, p. 2559–2563.
Cameron, Maria, Fomel, Sergey, and Sethian, James, 2006, Seismic velocity estimation and time to
depth conversion of the time-migrated images (ext. abs.), in SEG/New Orleans 2006 Annual
Meeting: Society of Engineering Geologists, p. 3066–3070.
Fomel, Sergey, 2006, Local seismic attributes (ext. abs.), in SEG/New Orleans 2006 Annual Meeting:
Society of Engineering Geologists, p. 1228–1232.
Sava, Paul, and Fomel, Sergey, 2006, Time-shift imaging condition for converted waves (ext. abs.), in
SEG/New Orleans 2006 Annual Meeting: Society of Engineering Geologists, p. 2460–2464.
Duchov, A. A., de Hoop, M. V., and Fomel, Sergey, 2006, Continuation of a class of seismic
processor s and associated 'rays' (ext. abs.), in SEG/New Orleans 2006 Annual Meeting: Society
of Engineering Geologists, p. 2549–2553.
Taner, M. T., Fomel, Sergey, and Landa, Evgeny, 2006, Separation and imaging of seismic
diffractions using plane-wave decomposition (ext. abs.), in SEG/New Orleans 2006 Annual
Meeting: Society of Engineering Geologists, p. 2401–2405.
Fouad, Khaled, Hardage, B. A., Backus, M. M., Graebner, R. J., Fomel, S. B., Sakurai, Shinichi, Abd
El Naser, M. H., Mounir, M. H., and Kortam, A. M., 2005, Targeting stratigraphic traps using
multicomponent seismic: case study from clastic and carbonate reservoirs (abs.), in Official
program and conference highlights, Second International Petroleum Conference and Exhibition,
under the patronage of H. E. Eng. Sameh Fahmy, Minister of Petroleum, Cairo, Egypt, p. 68.
Ferguson, R. J., and Fomel, S. B., 2005, Data regularization and redatuming using Newton's method
(exp. abs.), in SEG/Houston 2005 Annual Meeting, p. 1669–1672.
Sava, Paul, and Fomel, S. B., 2005, Wave-equation common-angle gathers for converted waves (exp.
abs.), in SEG/Houston 2005 Annual Meeting, p. 947–950.
Sava, Paul, and Fomel, S. B., 2005, Time-shift imaging condition (exp. abs.), in SEG/Houston 2005
Annual Meeting, p. 1850–1853.
Fomel, S. B., and Sava, Paul, 2005, Coordinate-independent angle-gathers for wave equation
migration (exp. abs.), in SEG/Houston 2005 Annual Meeting, p. 2052–2055.
Guitton, Antoine, Lomask, Jesse, and Fomel, Sergey, 2005, Non-linear estimation of vertical delays
(exp. abs.), in SEG/Houston 2005 Annual Meeting, p. 841–844.
Artman, Brad, and Fomel, Sergey, 2005, Fourier-domain imaging condition for shot-profile migration
(exp. abs.), in SEG/Houston 2005 Annual Meeting, p. 2013–2016.
Fomel, Sergey, 2005, Shaping regularization in geophysical estimation problems (exp. abs.), in
SEG/Houston 2005 Annual Meeting, p. 1673–1676.
Fomel, Sergey, 2005, Velocity-independent time-domain seismic imaging using local event slopes
(exp. abs.), in SEG/Houston 2005 Annual Meeting, p. 2269–2272.
Fomel, Sergey, Backus, Milo, Fouad, Khaled, Hardage, Bob, and Winters, Glenn, 2005, A multistep
approach to multicomponent seismic image registration with application to a West Texas
carbonate reservoir study (exp. abs.), in SEG/Houston 2005 Annual Meeting, p. 1018–1021.
Fomel, Sergey, 2005, Model preconditioning by plane-wave construction in geophysical estimation
problems (exp. abs.), in SEG/Houston 2005 Annual Meeting, p. 2601–2604.
Sava, Paul C., and Fomel, S. B., 2004, Seismic modeling with Riemannian wavefield extrapolation
(ext. abs.), in EAGE 60th Conference and Technical Exhibition, Paris, France, June 7–10, 4 p.
Sava, P. C., and Fomel, S. B., 2004, Wavefield extrapolation in Riemannian coordinates (abs.), in
Proceedings, 74th Annual International Meeting, Society of Exploration Geophysicists.
Murray, Paul, Backus, Milo, DeAngelo, Michael, Fomel, Sergey, Graebner, Robert, Hardage, Bob,
and Wood, Lesli, 2004, Evaluating marine gas hydrates with 4-C OBC seismic data (abs.):
American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Convention Abstracts Volume, v. 13, p.
A102.
Zhang, L., Rector, J. W., Hoversten, G. M., and Fomel, S., 2004, Split-step complex Padé-Fourier
depth migration (exp. abs.), in 74th Annual International Meeting, Society of Exploration
Geophysicists, expanded abstracts, p. 989–992.
Sava, Paul, and Fomel, S. B., 2004, Wavefield extrapolation in Riemannian coordinates (exp. abs.), in
74th Annual International Meeting, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, expanded abstracts, p.
1049–1052.
Fomel, S. B., 2004, Theory of 3-D angle gathers in wave-equation imaging (exp. abs.), in 74th Annual
International Meeting, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, expanded abstracts, p. 1053–1056.
Sava, P. C., Biondi, B., and Fomel, S., 2003, Wave-equation migration velocity analysis, SIAM
Conference on Mathematical and Computational Issues in the Geosciences (GS03), Austin.
Fomel, S. B., 2003, Differential azimuth moveout (exp. abs.), in 73rd Annual International Meeting,
Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Expanded Abstracts, p. 2068–2071.
Fomel, S. B., Backus, M. M., DeAngelo, Michael, Murray, Paul, and Hardage, B. A., 2003,
Multicomponent seismic data registration for subsurface characterization in the shallow Gulf of
Mexico (ext. abs.), in Offshore Technology Conference, OTC Paper No. 15117, 4 p.
Murray, Paul, DeAngelo, Michael, Backus, M. M., Hardage, B. A., Graebner, R. J., and Fomel, S. B.,
2003, Interpreting multicomponent seismic data in the Gulf of Mexico for shallow sedimentary
properties (ext. abs.), in Offshore Technology Conference, OTC Paper No. 15118, 5 p.
Fomel, S. B., and Backus, M. M., 2003, Multicomponent seismic data registration by least squares
(exp. abs.), in 73rd Annual International Meeting, Society of Exloration Geophysicists, Expanded
Abstracts, p. 781–784.
Fomel, S. B., 2003, Angle-domain seismic imaging and the oriented wave equation (exp. abs.), in
73rd Annual International Meeting, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Expanded Abstracts, p.
893–896.
Ferguson, R. J., Fomel, S. B., and Sen, M. K., 2003, Wave propagation in heterogeneous media by a
least squares one way operator (ext. abs.), in Proceedings, EAGE 65th Conference & Technical
Exhibition, Stavanger, Norway, June 2–5, unpaginated [4 p.].
Sava, Paul C., and Fomel, S. B., 2002, Wave-equation migration velocity analysis beyond the Born
approximation (exp. abs.), in 2002 Technical program expanded abstracts: SEG International
Exposition and Seventy-Second Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, October 6–11: Society of
Exploration Geophysicists, p. 2285–2288.
Fomel, Sergey, 2001, Migration velocity analysis by velocity continuation (exp. abs.), in 71st Annual
International Meeting: Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Expanded Abstracts, p. 1107–1110.
Fomel, Sergey, 2001, Seismic data interpolation and noise attenuation with plane-wave destructor
filters (exp. abs.), in 71st Annual International Meeting: Society of Exploration Geophysicists,
Expanded Abstracts, p. 1985–1988.
Fomel, Sergey, 2001, Seismic reflection data interpolation with differential offset and shot continuation
(exp. abs.), in 71st Annual International Meeting: Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Expanded
Abstracts, p. 2045–2048.
Sava, P. C., Fomel, S. B., and Biondi, B. L., 2001, Amplitude-preserved common image gathers by
wave-equation migration (exp. abs.), in 71st Annual International Meeting: Society of Exploration
Geophysicists, Expanded Abstracts, p. 296–299.
Sava, P. C., and Fomel, S. B., 1999, 3-D traveltime computation by Huygens wavefront tracing (abs.),
in SIAM Conference on Mathematical and Computational Issues in the Geosciences (GS99), San
Antonio.
Clapp, R. G., Biondi, B. L., Fomel, Sergey, and Claerbout, J. F., 1998, Regularizing velocity
estimation using geologic dip information (exp. abs.), in 68th Annual International Meeting:
Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Expanded Abstracts, p. 1851–1854.
Sun, Y., and Fomel, Sergey, 1998, Fast-marching eikonal solver in the tetragonal coordinates (exp.
abs.), in 68th Annual International Meeting: Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Expanded
Abstracts, p. 1949–1952.
Sava, P. C., and Fomel, S., 1998, Huygens wavefront tracing: a robust alternative to ray tracing (exp.
abs.), in 68th Annual International Meeting: Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Expanded
Abstracts, p. 1961–1964.
Rickett, J., Claerbout, J., and Fomel, Sergey, 1998, Implicit 3-D depth migration by wavefield
extrapolation with helical boundary conditions (exp. abs.), in 68th Annual International Meeting:
Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Expanded Abstracts, p. 1762–1765.
Biondi, B. L., Clapp, R. G., Fomel, Sergey, and Alkhalifah, T., 1998, Robust reflection tomography in
the time domain (exp. abs.), in 68th Annual International Meeting: Society of Exploration
Geophysicists, Expanded Abstracts, p. 1847–1850.
Alkhalifah, T., Fomel, Sergey, and Biondi, B., 1998, Time-domain processing in arbitrarily
inhomogeneous media (exp. abs.), in 68th Annual International Meeting: Society of Exploration
Geophysicists, Expanded Abstracts, p. 1756–1759.
Fomel, Sergey, 1997, Velocity continuation and the anatomy of prestack residual migration (exp.
abs.), in 67th Annual International Meeting: Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Expanded
Abstracts, p. 1762–1765.
Biondi, B. L., Fomel, Sergey, and Chemingui, N., 1996, Application of azimuth moveout to 3-D
prestack imaging (exp. abs.), in 66th Annual International Meeting: Society of Exploration
Geophysicists, Expanded Abstracts, p. 431–434.
Fomel, Sergey, Bleistein, N., Jaramillo, H., and Cohen, J. K., 1996, True amplitude DMO, offset
continuation and AVA/AVO for curved reflectors (exp. abs.), in 66th Annual International Meeting:
Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Expanded Abstracts, p. 1731–1734.
Fomel, Sergey, and Biondi, B. L., 1995, The time and space formulation of azimuth moveout (exp.
abs.), in 65th Annual International Meeting: Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Expanded
Abstracts, p. 1449–1452.
Contract Reports
Hardage, B. A., DeAngelo, M. V., Fomel, Sergey, Fouad, Khaled, Murray, P. E., Remington, Randy,
and Sava, Diana, 2007, Imaging super-deep gas plays across the Gulf of Mexico shelf with
multicomponent seismic technology: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic
Geology, final report prepared for the U.S. Department of Energy, under DOE Contract DE-FC2604NT42239, 84 p.
Tomasso, Mark, Fomel, S. B., Ghattas, O., Browaeys, T. J., Burstedde, C., and Na, S.-W., 2007,
Multicomponent seismic data analysis with application to characterizing subsurface lithological
variability: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, final report prepared
for Apache Corporation and GX Technology Corporation, under contract nos. UTA06-075 and
UTA06-478, 63 p. + DVD.
Tomasso, Mark, Fomel, S. B., Browaeys, T. J., Ghattas, O., Na, S.-W., and Burstedde, C., 2007,
Coronation multicomponent, update: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic
Geology, interim report prepared for Apache Corporation and GX Technology Corporation, under
contract nos. UTA06-075 and UTA06-478, 59 p.
Hardage, B. A., Backus, M. M., DeAngelo, Michael, Fomel, S. B., Fouad, Khaled, Graebner, R. J.,
Murray, Paul, Remington, R. L., and Sava, Diana, 2006, Elastic wavefield stratigraphy: an
emerging seismic technology: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology,
final report prepared for U.S. Department of Energy, under DOE contract DE-PS26-02NT15375,
86 p.
Bellian, J. A., Bryant, Steve, Fomel, S. B., Frost, E. L., Garcia-Fresca, B., Janson, Xavier, Jennings, J.
W., Jr., Kane, J. A., Kerans, Charles, Lonergan, T., Lucia, F. J., Malik, M. A., Nair, Narayan,
Phelps, R., Playton, T. E., Scheevel, Jay, Scott, T. M., Strand, J., Su, Jiandong (Joseph), Wang,
F. P., Zeng, Hongliu, and Zhang, L., 2005, Reservoir Characterization Research Laboratory
project summaries 2005:
RCRL 2005 sponsors: Anadarko, Aramco, BP, Chevron,
ConocoPhillips, ENI, ExxonMobil, Great Western Drilling, Kinder Morgan, Marathon, Norsk
Hydro, Oxy Permian, Pioneer, PDO, Shell, and Statoil, CD-ROM.
Hardage, B. A., Backus, Milo, DeAngelo, Michael, Fomel, Sergey, Fouad, Khaled, Graebner, Robert,
Murray, Paul, and Remington, Randy, 2004, Imaging deep gas prospects using multicomponent
seismic technology: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, final project
report prepared for Research Partnership to Secure Energy for America, under contract no. GRI04/0186, 31 p.
Hardage, B. A., Backus, M. M., De Angelo, Michael, Fomel, Sergey, Graebner, R. J., Murray, Paul,
and Wood, L. J., 2002, Characterizing marine gas-hydrate reservoirs and determining mechanical
properties of marine gas-hydrate strata with 4-component ocean-bottom-cable seismic data: The
University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, final report prepared for U.S.
Department of Energy, under contract no. DE-FC26-00NT41024, 43 p. + apps.
Workshop Workbooks
Hardage, B. A., Backus, M. M., DeAngelo, Michael, Fomel, S. B., Fouad, Khaled, Graebner, R. J.,
Murray, Paul, and Remington, R. L., 2004, Imaging deep gas prospects using multicomponent
seismic technology: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, 52 p.
Thesis
Application of Taylor series in seismic exploration problems.
Dissertation
Three-dimensional seismic data regularization.
Lecturing
BEG Colloquia
Verification and Validation of Seismic Attributes: presented at Bureau of Economic Geology, Austin,
Texas, October 2013.
Automatic painting of 3-D seismic volumes: presented at Bureau of Economic Geology Colloquium,
Austin, Texas, April 4, 2008.
Fast surface reconstruction from point sets: Bureau of Economic Geology research seminar, The
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, November 3, 2006.
Estimating structural uncertainty in seismic images: presented at Bureau of Economic Geology
Colloquium, Austin, Texas, October 14, 2005.
Smooth estimates of seismic attributes: presented at Bureau of Economic Geology Colloquium,
Austin, Texas, October 1, 2004.
Angle gather migration: presented at Bureau of Economic Geology Colloquium, Austin, Texas, May
14, 2001.
Corporate Schools, Research Seminars
Verification and validation of seismic attributes: presented at Stanford Exploration Project seminar,
Stanford University, Stanford, California, February 27, 2014.
Wave equations and numerical wave propagation in seismic reflection imaging: presented at KAUST,
Applied Mathematics & Computational Sciences Seminar, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, February 2013.
Full waveform inversion and diffraction focusing: presented at SIAM Conference on Computational
Science and Engineering, Boston, Massachusetts, February 27, 2013.
Coordinate systems for seismic imaging and inversion: presented at TCCS Spring Sponsor Meeting,
Houston, Texas, March 25, 2013.
Time-domain seismic imaging and inversion: presented at SIAM Conference on Computational
Science and Engineering, Boston, Massachusetts, February 26, 2013.
Discovering and understanding seismic reflection data patterns: presented at Texas A&M University,
Petroleum Engineering Seminar, College Station, Texas, October 16, 2012.
Shaping regularization: presented at Saudi Aramco EXPEC ARC, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, February 8,
2011.
Mathematical and computational problems of seismic imaging: presented at Cornell University,
Scientific Computing and Numerics Seminar, Ithaca, New York, March 1, 2010.
Examples of BP-inspired research at UT Austin: presented at BP America, Wednesday Tea Seminar,
Houston, Texas, March 17, 2010.
Seismic wave extrapolation using lowrank symbol approximation: presented at CGGVeritas, Houston,
Texas, July 22, 2010.
Time-frequency characterization of seismic data
using local attributes: presented at Exploration Geophysics Seminar, Austin, Texas, October 15,
2009.
Discovering patterns in seismic reflection data: presented to Shell BTC, Houston, Texas, September
28, 2009.
Predictive painting of 3-D seismic volumes; Seismic data analysis with one-dimensional seislet frame:
presented at StatoilHydro, Bergen, Norway, April 23, 2009.
Shaping regularization and time-frequency characterization using local attributes: presented to
University of Alberta, Signal Analysis and Imaging Group, Edmonton, Canada, December 10, 2009.
Adaptive multiple subtraction using regularized nonstationary regression: presented at StatoilHydro,
Trondheim, Norway, April 22, 2009.
Prestack time migration revisited: presented at Norwegian University of Science and Technology
(NTNU), ROSE consortium sponsor meeting, Trondheim, Norway, April 21, 2009.
Velocity analysis using shaping regularization: presented at the University of Utah, UTAM consortium
meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, February 5, 2009.
Seismic data analysis with one-dimensional seislet frame: presented at Exploration Geophysics
Seminar, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, October 23, 2008.
Recent advances in time-domain seismic imaging: presented to Saudi Aramco, Dhahran, Saudi
Arabia, June 6, 2008.
Seismic wave propagation using Fourier integration: presented at CGGVeritas, Houston, Texas, April
30, 2008.
Time-lapse seismic image registration using the local similarity attribute and the "Madagascar"
software package: presented to ConocoPhillips, Houston, Texas, February 18, 2008.
The "Madagascar" software package: presented to Chevron ETC, San Ramon, California, February
14, 2008.
Discovering patterns in seismic reflection data: presented to Department of Geological Sciences, The
University of Texas at Austin, Technical Sessions, Austin, Texas, September 30, 2008.
Applications of local seismic attributes: presented at Shell International E&P, Houston, Texas,
October 29, 2007.
Applications of nonstationary regression: presented to Exploration Geophysics Seminar, Department
of Geological Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, September 13, 2007.
Reproducible computational experiments using the Madagascar Software Package: presented to
Schlumberger Cambridge Research, Cambridge, England, June 15, 2007.
Discovering patterns in seismic reflection data: presented to Department of Petroleum and
Geosystems Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, April 10, 2007.
Discovering patterns in seismic reflection data: presented to Department of Earth Science, Rice
University, Houston, Texas, April 27, 2007.
Madagascar open-source software package: presented to BP, Houston, Texas, February 28, 2007.
The seislet transform and seislet frames: presented to Geophysical Society of Houston, Houston,
Texas, January 24, 2007.
Mathematical problems of time-domain seismic imaging: presented at University of California at Irvine,
Applied Mathematics Seminar, Irvine, California, January 28, 2007.
Understanding seismic heterogeneity: presented at Exploration Geophysics Seminar, Austin, TX,
December 7, 2006.
Introducing "Madagascar," a computational platform for geophysical data processing and reproducible
numerical experiments: presented at EAGE workshop Open-Source E&P Software—Putting the
Pieces Together, Vienna, Austria, June 11, 2006.
Multiple-arrival seismic imaging and the seislet transform: presented to Total, Houston, Texas, June 1,
2006.
Seismic attributes for multicomponent data analysis: presented at EGL Sponsor Meeting, Austin,
Texas, May 16, 2006.
Seismic diffraction imaging: presented at M-OSRP Sponsor Meeting, Houston, Texas, May 12, 2006.
Time*Velocity=Depth: presented at Exploration Geophysics Seminar, The University of Texas at
Austin, Austin, Texas, April 27, 2006.
Time*Velocity=Depth: presented to BP, Houston, Texas, April 26, 2006.
Differential azimuth moveout and reservoir-centered seismic imaging: presented to Total, Pau,
France, March 9, 2006.
The Seislet Transform: presented at Geophysics Seminar, Department of Geological Sciences, The
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, September 22, 2005.
Seismic slope as a universal attribute: presented at UBC, Vancouver, Canada, July 22, 2005.
Amplitude preserving migration: presented to Shell E&P, Houston, Texas, February 17, 2005.
Velocity * time = depth: presented to Stanford Exploration Project, Stanford, California, January 28,
2005.
Multicomponent data registration and other projects: presented at EGL Sponsor Meeting, Austin,
Texas, December 8, 2004.
Seismic slope as a universal attribute: presented at Veritas DGS, Houston, Texas, December 14,
2004.
Oriented seismic imaging in the time domain: presented at DoGS Geophysics Research Seminar, The
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, October 28, 2004.
Shaping regularization oin geophysical estimation problems: presented to GXT Input/Output, Houston,
Texas, September 8, 2004.
Shaping regularization in geophysical estimation problems: presented to UTIG, Austin, Texas,
September 17, 2004.
Workshops
Four methods of data regularization: presented at TCCS sponsor meeting, Houston, Texas, March 21,
2014.
“Madagascar” fundamentals; Contributing to “Madagascar”: presented at Australian Society of
Exploration Geophysicists, Workshop titled "Madagascar (Open Source Processing)", Melbourne,
Australia, August 2013.
Shaping Regularization in Seismic Inversion: presented at Applied Inverse Problems conference,
Padua, South Korea, July 2013.
Shaping regularization in seismic inversion: presented at Applied Inverse Problems conference,
Daejeon, South Korea, July 2013.
Geometry of Waves and Oriented Velocity Continuation: presented at TCCS Fall Sponsor Meeting,
Austin, Texas, September 30, 2013.
Multipathing problem in seismic imaging and a numerical solution of escape equations: presented at
SIAM Conference on Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures, Seattle, Washington, June 13, 2012.
Reproducible research—lessons from the Madagascar project: presented to National Academies
Committee on Responsible Science, Stanford, California, July 9, 2012.
Migration semblance: presented at SEG/EAGE Summer Research Workshop, Velocity Model Building
in Complex Geology, Charleston, South Carolina, August 17, 2012.
Contributing to Madagascar: presented at Madagascar School and Workshop on Reproducible
Computational Geophysics, Austin, Texas, July 21, 2012.
Diffractions and velocity analysis: presented at SEG Workshop Seismic Diffraction Methods for Fault
and Fracture Detection, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 9, 2012.
Multiazimuth seismic diffraction imaging for fracture characterization in low-permeability gas
formations: workshop presented at RPSEA Unconventional Gas Conference, Canonsburg,
Pennsylvania, April 17, 2012.
Reproducibility as a community effort: lessons from the Madagascar Project: presented at ICERM
Workshop, Reproducibility in Computational and Experimental Mathematics, Providence, Rhode
Island, December 13, 2012.
Python interface to Madagascar: presented at Scientific Computing with Python Conference, Austin,
Texas, July 19, 2012.
Velocity continuation: workshop presented at SIAM Imaging Science Conference, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, May 21, 2012.
Madagascar open-source project—six years later: presented at EAGE Workshop Open-Source E&P
Software—Six Years Later, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 8, 2012.
Madagascar Open-Source Software Project: presented at Madagascar School and Workshop on
Reproducible Computational Geophysics, Austin, Texas, July 20, 2012.
Oriented seismic migration in time and depth: presented at the workshop Seismics: Current Status
and Future Directions, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, February 1, 2011.
Full waveform inversion using diffraction waves: presented at SIAM Conference on Computational
Science and Engineering, Reno, Nevada, February 28, 2011.
Reproducible research, lessons from the Madagascar Project: presented at SIAM Conference on
Computational Science and Engineering, Reno, Nevada, March 3, 2011.
Shaping regularization in geophysical inverse problems: presented at SIAM Conference on
Mathematical & Computational Issues in the Geosciences, Long Beach, California, March 24, 2011.
Seislet transform and seislet frame: tools for compressive representation of seismic data: presented at
EAGE Workshop “New Representations of Seismic Data—Aiming at Increased Information Density at
Less Cost”, Vienna, Austria, May 22, 2011.
Seismic wave extrapolation in isotropic and anisotropic media using lowrank symbol approximation:
presented at EAGE Workshop “New Numerical Methods for Geophysical Imaging”, Vienna, Austria,
May 23, 2011.
Practical implementation of reproducible research in the Madagascar Software Project: presented at
Interface 2011: Statistical, Machine Learning, and Visualization Algorithms, Cary, North Carolina,
June 1, 2011.
Advances in seismic imaging and the role of university research: presented at SPE R&D Symposium,
Austin, Texas, June 8, 2011.
Madagascar Open-Source Project: presented at PTTC Workshop Open Software Tools for
Reproducible Computational Geophysics, Houston, Texas, June 17, 2011.
Shaping Regularization: presented at Geophysical Conference in Memory of S.V. Goldin, Novosibirsk,
Russia, August 2, 2011.
Building a reproducible research community: experience of the Madagascar Open-Source Project:
presented at SIAM Conference on Mathematical & Computational Issues in the Geosciences, Long
Beach, California, March 23, 2011.
Introduction to Madagascar: presented at Madagascar School on Reproducible Computational
Geophysics, Houston, Texas, July 23, 2010.
Reproducible Computational Geophysics: Archiving Computational Experiments in the Madagascar
Project: NSF Workshop on Archiving Experiments to Raise Scientific Standards, Salt Lake City, Utah,
May 25, 2010.
Reproducible research in practice: Python as interface language in the Madagascar software
package: presented at Python in Scientific Computing Conference, Austin, Texas, July 1, 2010.
Reproducible research, seismic attributes, and shaping regularization: presented at the SIAM
Conference on Mathematical & Computational Issues in the Geosciences, Leipzig, Germany, June
15, 2009.
Shaping regularization: presented at the Applied Inverse Problems Conference, Vienna, Austria, July
24, 2009.
Time-domain seismic imaging using beams: presented at the EAGE Workshop, Locally Coherent
Events—A New Perspective for Seismic Imaging, Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 7, 2009.
Four methods of data regularization: presented at the EAGE Workshop, Reconstruction, Recovery
and Interpolation of Multidimensional Seismic Wave Fields, Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 8, 2009.
Reproducible computations using Madagascar software package: School on Reproducible
Computational Geophysics, Delft, Netherlands, June 12, 2009.
Review of recent advances in time-domain seismic imaging: presented at the SIAM Conference on
Mathematical & Computational Issues in the Geosciences, Leipzig, Germany, June 16, 2009.
Volumetric surface extraction by predictive painting: presented at SEG Workshop “What’s new in
seismic interpretation?”, Houston, Texas, October 29, 2009.
Multiscale Analysis of Seismic Data Using the Seislet Transform: presented at the School and
Workshop on Multiscale Modeling and Analysis, Austin, Texas, August 4, 2008.
Mathematical problems of time-domain seismic imaging: presented at SIAM Imaging Science
Conference, San Diego, California, July 8, 2008.
Seislet transform and seislet frames for multiscale seismic data analysis: presented at SEG D&P
Forum, The Roles of Scaling and Uncertainty in Reservoir Characterization, Austin, Texas, July 28,
2008.
Seismic time-domain imaging using beams: presented at Spring Symposium, Geophysical Society of
Houston, Houston, Texas, May 1, 2008.
Reproducible computational experiments using Madagascar software package: presented at Scientific
Software Days, Austin, Texas, May 15, 2008.
Time-domain seismic imaging using Gaussian beams: presented in Gaussian Beams with Application
to Seismology Workshop, Austin, Texas, November 2007.
Reproducible computational experiments using the Madagascar Software Package: presented at
Conference on Applied Inverse Problems, Vancouver, Canada, June 29, 2007.
The seislet transform and seislet frames: presented at EAGE Workshop, "Curvelets, Contourlets,
Seislets…in Seismic Data Processing--Where Are We and Where Are We Going?", London, England,
June 11, 2007.
Imaging waves using image rays: presented at University of California at Santa Cruz, WTOPI
Consortium Meeting and Symposium "Imaging the Future: Demands and Possibilities", Santa Cruz,
California, May 30, 2007.
"Madagascar" software package and the technology of reproducible computational experiments:
presented on Scientific Software Day, Austin, Texas, April 2, 2007.
The Madagascar software package and the technology of reproducible computational experiments:
presented at Scientific Software Day, Austin, Texas, April 2, 2007.
Reproducible computational experiments using Scons: presented at International Conference on
Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Honolulu, Hawaii, April 18, 2007.
Wave equation imaging condition: presented to SIAM Geosciences, Santa Fe, New Mexico, March
21, 2007.
Semblance and other seismic similarity attributes: presented at the Spring Symposium, Geophysical
Society of Houston and Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Houston, Texas, March 8, 2007.
Wave-equation imaging condition: presented to SIAM Geosciences, Santa Fe, New Mexico, March
21, 2007.
Extending high-frequency wave asymptotics to low frequencies: presented at AGU Fall Meeting, San
Francisco, California, December 12, 2007.
"Madagascar" LaTeX and Web tools: presented as school and workshop, "Reproducible Research in
Computational Geophysics", Vancouver, Canada, August 30, 2006.
Adding programs to "Madagascar": presented as school and workshop, "Reproducible Research in
Computational Geophysics", Vancouver, Canada, August 31, 2006.
"Madagascar" installation and compilation: presented as school and workshop, "Reproducible
Research in Computational Geophysics", Vancouver, Canada, August 30, 2006.
Introducing "Madagascar," a computational platform for geophysical data processing and reproducible
numerical experiments: presented at EAGE Workshop, Open-Source E&P Software--Putting the
Pieces Together, Vienna, Austria, June 11, 2006.
Estimating structural uncertainty of seismic images using velocity continuation: presented at SEG
Workshop, Net to Gross: Its Estimation and Reliability, Houston, Texas, November 10, 2005.
Wave-equation angle-domain imaging for multicomponent seismic data: presented at EAGE/SEG
Research Workshop, Multicomponent Seismic--Past, Present, and Future, Pau, France
France, September 5, 2005.
Estimating seismic attenuation by local frequency analysis: workshop presented at SEG Development
& Production Forum, Austin, Texas, May 17, 2005.
Multicomponent seismic data registration: presented as Workshop on Imaging Super-Deep Geology
with Multicomponent Seismic Technology, Houston, Texas, September 22, 2004.
Adaptive multiple subtraction using regularized nonstationary regression: presented at SEG
Workshop “Adaptive Cancellation of Noise”, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 14, 208.
Lectures and Addresses
Seismic attributes for detecting natural fractures in unconventional reservoirs: presented at BP
Geophysics Unconventional Gas Community “Lunch and Learn”, Houston, Texas, May 10, 2012.
Wave equations and numerical wave propagation in seismic reflection imaging: presented at Cornell
University, CAM Colloquium, Ithaca, New York, April 20, 2012.
Plane waves, nonstationarity, and reproducible
research: presented at GSH-SEG Spring Symposium Honoring Jon Claerbout, “Imaging the
Reservoir”, Houston, Texas, April 7, 2011.
Reproducible research: lessons from the Madagascar Project: presented at 5th Annual Scientific
Software Days, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, May 12, 2011.
Reproducible research: lessons from the Madagascar Software Project: presented at KAUST, Thuwal,
Saudi Arabia, February 6, 2011.
Reservoir monitoring using measures of local similarity for seismic image registration: presented at
Rice University, Department of Earth Science, Houston, Texas, May 17, 2011.
Shaping regularization: presented to Texas Consortium for Computational Seismology, Houston,
Texas, March 18, 2011.
Plane waves, non‐stationarity, and reproducible research: presented at GSH-SEG Spring Symposium
Honoring Jon Claerbout “Imaging the Reservoir”, Houston, Texas, April 7, 2011.
Local similarity attribute and seismic image registration: presented at Pacific Coast Section of SEG,
Bakersfield, California, June 22, 2011.
Texas Consortium for Computational Seismology: presented at SR2020, Brea, California, June 23,
2011.
Geometry of geophysics: coordinate systems of
seismic imaging: presented at BGP, Zhuozhou, China, July 26, 2011.
Multiazimuth seismic diffraction imaging for fracture characterization in low-permeability gas
formations: presented at FRAC IA Sponsor Meeting, Santa Barbara, California, November 9, 2011.
Reproducible research: lessons from the Madagascar Project: presented at 5th Annual Scientific
Software Days, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, May 12, 2011.
Seismic fracture detection: presented at ExxonMobil Intern Day, Austin, Texas, April 1, 2011.
Extracting seismic data patterns using predictive painting: presented at 30th Annual GCSSEPM
Foundation Bob F. Perkins Research Conference “Seismic Imaging of Depositional and Geomorphic
Systems”, Houston, Texas, December 12, 2010.
Time-domain seismic imaging using beams: presented at Geophysical Society of Houston, Signal
Processing Meeting, Houston, Texas, March 24, 2010.
Predictive painting of 3D seismic volumes: presented to Marathon Oil, Houston, Texas, February 2,
2010.
Discovering patterns in seismic reflection data: presented to the Permian Basin Geophysical Society,
Midland, Texas, November 11, 2009.
Predictive painting of 3-D seismic volumes: presented to Bay Area Geophysical Society, San Ramon,
California, July 8, 2009.
Discovering patterns in seismic reflection data: BEG Centennial Distinguished Lecture Seminar on
Gulf of Mexico Research presented to, Houston, Texas, June 23, 2009.
Discovering patterns in seismic reflection data: presented to ConocoPhillips, Houston, Texas, July 15,
2009.
Predictive painting of 3-D seismic volumes: presented to Canadian Society of Exploration
Geophysicists, Lunchbox Geophysics, Calgary, Canada, December 8, 2009.
Fracture detection using seismic diffraction imaging: presented at FRAC IA sponsor meeting, Las
Vegas, Nevada, October 15, 2007.
Wavefield continuation: presented at Institute for Geophysics, Novosibirsk, Russia, February 2, 2006.
Seismic slope as a universal attribute: presented at SEG Forum, Mathematical Problems of Seismic
Imaging and Inversion, Novosibirsk, Russia, January 26, 2006.
Local slope as a universal seismic attribute: presented to Colorado School of Mines, Golden,
Colorado, February 24, 2005.
Multicomponent data registration: presented to WesternGeco, Houston, Texas, July 22, 2004.
Shaping regularization in geophysical estimation problems: presented at SEP Sponsor Meeting,
Pacific Grove, California, May 20, 2004.
3-D angle gathers in wave equation migration: presented at Exploration Geophysics Seminar, The
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, May 6, 2004.
3-D angle gathers: presented at SEP seminar, Stanford University, Stanford, California, April 28,
2004.
Wave-equation imaging: problems and solutions: presented to ExxonMobil URC, Houston, Texas,
March 23, 2004.
Angle-domain seismic imaging and the oriented wave equation: presented to OPERA, University of
Pau, Pau, France, February 17, 2004.
Fast phase-space computation of multiple arrivals: presented to Paradigm Geophysical, Herzliya,
Israel, February 29, 2004.
Differential azimuth moveout for 3-D seismic data regularization: presented to TOTAL, Pau, France,
February 19, 2004.
Angle-domain seismic imaging and the oriented wave equation: presented to PGS, Houston, Texas,
December 11, 2003.
Wave-equation imaging: problems and solutions: presented at TRIP seminar, Rice University,
Houston, Texas, December 12, 2003.
Seismic fracture detection: presented at AAPG Fractured Reservoir Characterization and Modeling
School, Austin, Texas, November 12, 2003.
Multicomponent data registration and the oriented wave equation: presented at Exploration
Geophysics Seminar, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, October 24, 2003.
Angle-domain seismic imaging and the oriented wave equation: presented at 73rd Annual
International Meeting, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Dallas, Texas, October 29, 2003.
Differential azimuth moveout: presented at 73rd Annual International Meeting, Society of Exloration
Geophysicists, Dallas, Texas, October 29, 2003.
Multicomponent seismic data registration by least squares: presented at EGL Sponsor Meeting,
Dallas, Texas, October 29, 2003.
Multicomponent seismic data registration by least squares: presented at 73rd Annual International
Meeting, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Dallas, Texas, October 31, 2003.
Multicomponent registration of frequency-dependent data: presented at Conference on Interpreting
Reservoir Architecture Using Scale-Frequency Phenomena, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, June 19,
2003.
Multicomponent seismic data registration for subsurface characterization in the shallow Gulf of
Mexico: presented at Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, TX, May 5, 2003.
Angle-domain seismic imaging and the oriented wave equation: presented at GXT and BP seminars,
Houston, TX, May 2003.
Seismic elastic modeling: presented at Exploration Geophysics Laboratory Sponsor Meeting, Bureau
of Economic Geology, Austin, TX, March 29, 2003.
Multicomponent seismic data registration by least squares: presented at Exploration Geophysics
Laboratory Sponsor Meeting, Bureau of Economic Geology, Austin, TX, March 29, 2003.
Rays,fronts, and waves: traveltimes in seismic imaging: presented at SIAM Conference on
Mathematical and Computational Issues in the Geosciences, Austin, TX, March 19, 2003.
Plane wave destruction: a tool for seismic data analysis and attribute extraction: presented at EDGER
Technical Symposium, Department of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX,
January 27, 2003.
Anelliptic approximations in VTI media: presented at Exploration Geophysics Research Seminar,
Jackson School, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, January 16, 2003.
Regular noise attenuation with plane-wave destruction filters: presented at the XI Venezuelan
Geophysical Congress, Caracas, Venezuela, November 2002.
Fast phase-space computation of multiple arrivals: presented at University of Washington, Seattle,
Washington, May 3, 2002.
Fast-phase space computation of multiple arrivals: presented at Bay Area Scientific Computing Day
2002, Pleasanton, California, March 2, 2002.
Fast phase-space computation of multiple arrivals: presented at the SIAM Annual Meeting,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2002.
Rays, fronts, and waves: traveltimes in seismic imaging: presented at the Mathematical Geophysics
Summer School, Stanford, California, 2002.
Fast computation of multiple arrivals and their use in seismic imaging: presented at BP seminar,
Houston, Texas, 2002.
Fast multiple-arrival traveltime computation for seismic imaging: presented at The University of Texas
at Austin, Institute for Geophysics Seminar, Austin, Texas, 2002.
Fast computation of multiple arrivals and their use in seismic imaging: presented at WesternGeco
seminar, Houston, Texas, 2002.
Plane wave destruction: presented to The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, March 1,
2001.
Plane-wave destruction filters: presented to 4th Wave Imaging, Laguna Beach, California, July 28,
2000.
Migration velocity analysis: presented to PGS, Houston, Texas, December 6, 1999.
Migration velocity analysis by velocity continuation: presented to Western Geophysical, Houston,
Texas, January 15, 1999.
Migration velocity analysis by velocity continuation: presented to Chevron, La Habra, California,
December 8, 1998.
Helix transform and recursive filter preconditioning: presented to Schlumberger, Cambridge, UK,
August 25, 1998.
Velocity continuation: presented to ARCO, Dallas, Texas, January 5, 1998.
Helix transform and recursive filter preconditioning: presented to Chevron, La Habra, California,
November 25, 1997.
Short Courses
Madagascar Software Project; data processing using Madagascar and Scons: presented at School on
Reproducible Computational Geophysics, Beijing, China, July 21, 2011.
Madagascar Software Project, Short Course for Students and Young Scientists: presented at
Novosibirsk State University; Institute for Petroleum Geology and Geophysics SB RAS, Novosibirsk,
Russia, August 1, 2011.
How to contribute to Madagascar and why: presented at School on Reproducible Computational
Geophysics, Beijing, China, July 22, 2011.
Seismic data analysis using local attributes: short course presented at Loránd Eötvös Geophysical
Institute, Budapest, Hungary, July 27–28, 2009.
Seismic imaging: presented at CGGVeritas, Houston, Texas, April 30, 2008.
Seismic imaging: presented to Saudi Aramco, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, June 1, 2008.
Writing reproducible papers and extending RSF/Madagascar: presented at Madagascar Software
School, Bureau of Economic Geology, Austin, Texas, April 20, 2007.
University Teaching
Multidimensional Data Analysis in Geosciences
Organization: presented at Department of Geological Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin,
Austin, Texas, 2010.
Mathematical Methods in Geophysics: presented at Department of Geological Sciences, The
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, 2010.
GEO 391 Multidimensional data analysis in geosciences: presented to Department of Geological
Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, Fall 2008.
GEO384W Seismic Imaging: presented Department of Geological Sciences, The University of Texas
at Austin, Austin, Texas, Fall 2007.
GEO 391 Seismic Wavefield Imaging: presented at the Department of Geological Sciences, The
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, October 2005.
Geometrical theory of seismic imaging: presented to Department of Geological Sciences (Geology
391), The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, October 2003.
Seismic imaging as an inverse problem: presented to Department of Petroleum and Geosystems
Engineering (PGE 383), The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, October 2003.
Plane-wave destruction and other types of wave extrapolation: presented to The University of Texas
at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences (Geology 391), Austin, Texas, 2002.
Continuing Education-Short Courses
Mathmatics of Modeling, Migration, and Inversion with Gaussian Beams: Society of Exploration
Geophysics, San Antonio, Texas, September
Miscellaneous Activities of a Professional Nature
Organizer, Madagascar working workshop
Co-organizer, School on Reproducible Computational Geophysics, Beijing, China, July 2011
Session Chair, Annual Meeting of the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers, May
2011
Session Chair, Annual Meeting of the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers, May
2011
Co-organizer, Minisymposium on Gaussian Beams in Seismology, SIAM Conference on Mathematical
& Computational Issues in the Geosciences, March 2011
Co-organizer, special session on Advances in Seismic Data Analysis Methods at the AGU Joint
Assembly “Meeting of the Americas," 2010
Guest Associate Editor, special issue of Geophysics on Seismic Data Sampling, 2010
Co-organizer of EAGE Workshop on Migration Velocity Analysis in Anisotropic Media, 2010
Session Chairman, Annual International Meeting, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, October 2009.
Reviews of Articles, Abstracts, and Research Proposals
Reviewer of grant proposals for the Petroleum Research Fund (American Chemical Society)
Reviewer of research articles in major geophysics journals (Bulletin of the Seismological Society of
America, Communications in Mathematical Sciences, Computers & Geosciences, Computer Methods
in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Geophysical Journal International, Geophysics, Geophysical
Prospecting, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Inverse Problems, Journal of
Applied Geophysics, Journal of Geophysics and Engineering, Journal of Computational Physics,
Journal of Seismic Exploration, Near Surface Geophysics, Petrophysics, and Wave Motion)
Graduate Student Committee Participation
Chairman, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee, William Burnett, Department of Geological Sciences: The
University of Texas at Austin, completed, 2011
Member, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee, John Hooker, The University of Texas at Austin, 2010
Member, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee, Engin Alkan, The University of Texas at Austin, 2010
Chair, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee, Xiaolei Song, The University of Texas at Austin, 2009
Co-Advisor, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee, S. Hesam Kazameini, Department of Earth Sciences:
Uppsala University, 2009
Member, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee, Robert Mallan, Department of Petroleum Systems and
Engineering: The University of Texas at Austin, 2008
Member, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee, Chaoshun Hu, Department of Geological Sciences: The
University of Texas at Austin, 2008
Chairman, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee, Vladimir Bashkardin, Department of Geological Sciences:
The University of Texas at Austin, 2008
Member, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee, Erin Eastwood, Department of Geological Sciences: The
University of Texas at Austin, 2007
Member, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee, Chaoshun Hu, Department of Geological Sciences: The
University of Texas at Austin, 2007
Member, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee, Tatyana Torskaya, Department of Petroleum and
Geosystems Engineering: The University of Texas at Austin, 2007
Member, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee, Peijia Liu, Department of Mathematics: The University of
Texas at Austin, 2007
Member, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee, Chandan Kumar, Parameter inversion for seismic anisotropy:
Department of Geological Sciences: The University of Texas at Austin, 2004
Member, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee, Cem Kilic, Characterization and quantification of middle
Miocene reservoirs of Starfak and Tiger Shoal fields, offshore Louisiana, using genetic sequence
stratigraphy and neural networks: Department of Geological Sciences: The University of Texas at
Austin, 2004
Member, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee, Chaoshun Hu, Department of Petroleum Engineering: The
University of Texas at Austin, 2004