Curriculum Vita

Mrinal K. Sen

Institute for Geophysics                                                                                                                        

The University of Texas at Austin                                                                  Phone: +1-512-471-0466

J. J. Pickle Research Campus                                                                           Fax: +1-512-471-8844

10100 Burnet Road, Bldg. 196 (Campus Mail R2200)                               Email: mrinal@ig.utexas.edu

Austin, Texas 78758-4445 U.S.A.                                                         Web: http://www.ig.utexas.edu

Education:

1987          Ph.D. Geology and Geophysics, University of Hawaii at Manoa

1979          M.Sc. Applied Geophysics, Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, India

1977          B.Sc. Applied Geophysics, Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, India

Professional Experience:

09/07-               John A. and Katherine G. Jackson Chair in Applied Seismology

08/04-               Professor, Dept. of Geological Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin

08/04-               Research Professor, Institute for Geophysics, The University of Texas at Austin

09/07-               Faculty member, Graduate Studies Committee, Computational and Applied mathematics, UT Austin.

09/06-08/07       Weeks Endowed Fellow, Dept. of Geological Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin

09/03–08/06      Jackson Endowed Fellow, Institute for Geophysics, The University of Texas at Austin

99/98–98/04      Senior Research Scientist, Institute for Geophysics, The University of Texas at Austin

01/02–08/03      Fellow of Edwin Allday Centennial Chair in Subsurface Geology, Department of Geological Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin

09/92–08/98      Research Scientist, Institute for Geophysics, The University of Texas at Austin

09/89–08/92      Research Associate, Institute for Geophysics, The University of Texas at Austin

09/87–09/89      Project Seismologist, Woodward-Clyde Consultants, Pasadena, California

09/82–05/87      Graduate Research Assistant, University of Hawaii

07/81–08/82      Geophysicist, OMNI Tape Company, Houston, Texas

09/79–06/81      Geophysicist, INDICOS Computer Services, Bombay, India

Visiting Positions:

09/01 -              Associated Faculty, Mission Oriented Seismic Research Program, University of Houston.

11/01–12/01      Visiting Professor, Section Applied Geophysics, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands.

07/98–08/98      Consultant, Upstream Strategic Research Group, MOBIL Oil Company, Dallas, Texas

06/98–07/98      Consultant, Rock Physics/Seismic Attributes Group, AMOCO Research Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma

08/93                Visiting Scientist, NRL-SSC, Bay St. Louis, Missouri

06/87–08/87      Research Seismologist, Hawaii Institute of Geophysics

02/85–06/85      Geophysical Intern, SOHIO Petroleum Company, Dallas, Texas

 

Teaching Experience:

Inverse Theory (GEO384M)

Advanced Theoretical Seismology (GEO 391)

Seismology II (GEO 390D)

Seismology III

Solid Earth Geophysics (GEO354/GEO384D)

Linear systems and inverse methods

Seminar courses on seismic migration and inversion

Asymptotic methods in seismic wave propagation

Mathematical Methods in Geophysics

Quantitative Seismic Interpretation

Industry Short Courses:

“Global optimization methods in geophysical inversion,” SBGF 2001, ONGC, Delft, Germany.

“Seismic modeling, migration, and inversion” (one-week short course taught at companies) (ONGC 2003, 2004, 2005; Oil India 2007)

“Seismic modeling and inversion: the state of the art”–SBGF 2005 (Sep. 10), SPG 2006 (Jan. 8)

“Seismic inversion: theory and practice”

“Pre-stack time and depth migration” (one-week short course taught at ONGC, Jan. 2006; Dec 2008)

“Pre- and Post-stack Inversion” (one-week short course taught at ONGC, Dec. 2006; Jan 2008; Dec 2008)

“AVO and Seismic Attributes” (one-week short course taught at ONGC, Dec. 2006; Dec 2007; Dec 2008)

“Elastic wave theory,” (two-day short course taught at Conoco-Phillips. Houston, Oct. 2007).

“Innovative techniques for reservoir characterization using seismic data “(one week short course taught at ONGC India Jan 2008)

Current Research Interests:

·         Theoretical and Computational Seismology: Wave propagation, Anisotropy, Synthetic seismograms.

·         Exploration Geophysics: Seismic Processing, AVO, Imaging, GPR, Post and Pre-stack inversion, Reservoir characterization.

·         Inverse Theory and Optimization.

·         Computational Methods: Supercomputing and parallel computation applications in Geophysics, uncertainty in climate models.

Service:

Member, Research Committee, Society of Exploration Geophysicists.

Associate Editor, Geophysics, Seismic Migration section, June 06-present.

Associate Editor, Geophysics, Seismic Modeling and Wave Propagation section, June 06-present.

Associate Editor, Journal of Seismic Exploration, 2005-present.

Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Geophysics, 2008-present

Member, Editorial Board (Advisory Committee), Journal of Indian School of Mines, 2006-present.

Associate Editor, Computational Seismology and Geodynamics, American Geophysical Union, 1997-present.

Member, European Academy of Sciences

Member, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Member, European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE)

Member, Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG)

Member, Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)

Member, International Committee, Society of Exploration Geophysicists (past)

Member, Computer Application Committee, Society of Exploration Geophysicists (past).

Member, Technical Program Committee (key contact - seismic inversion), Society of Exploration Geophysicists’ annual meeting, Houston, Texas, 2009.

Co-convenor, Workshop on ‘Seismic Interferometry’, SEG annual meeting, Houston, Texas, Oct. 09.

Co-convenor, Workshop on ‘Bayesian method for geological model building’, EAGE meeting, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 09.

Co-chair, Technical Program Committee, SEG representative, Society of Petroleum Geophysicists’ annual meeting, Hyderabad, India, 2008.

Member, Technical Program Committee (key contact - seismic inversion), Society of Exploration Geophysicists’ annual meeting, San Antonio, Texas, 2007.

Co-chair, Technical Program Committee, SEG representative, Society of Petroleum Geophysicists’ annual meeting, Kolkata India, 2006.

Co-chair, Technical Program Committee, SEG representative, Society of Petroleum Geophysicists’ annual meeting, Hyderabad, India, 2004.

Member, Technical Program Committee, Society of Exploration Geophysicists’ annual meeting, San Antonio, Texas, 2001.

Invited Participant, National Research Council (NRC) planning workshop on 'How uncertainty is related to ocean science models?' Sept. 99, Washington D.C.

Member, External Review Board of the Marine Geosciences Division Basic and Applied Research programs, Office of Naval Research, 1999.

Invited Participant (Unclassified), DARPA Geophysics seminar on Detection of Underground Facilities, Mar. 99.

Invited panel member, DOE workshop on Global inversion of Geophysical Data, San Jose, California, Feb. 99.

Invited Participant, two-week workshop on Inverse Problems at the Institute of Mathematics and Its applications at the University of Minnesota (03/06/95–03/17/95).

 

Current UT/UTIG Committees:

Member, Appointments committee [tenure and promotion committee], Jackson School of Geosciences, 2009-2012.

Chairman, Geophysics Curricular Group, Dept. of Geological Sciences

Chairman, Graduate curriculum committee, Dept. of Geological Sciences

Chairman, Internal JSG Hires, UTIG

Member, Exploration Geophysics Search Committee, Dept. of Geological Sciences

Member, Endowed chair nomination committee, Dept. of Geological Sciences

Member, KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology) computational geosciences faculty search committee, Institute of computational and engineering sciences, UT Austin.

Member, KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology) computational geosciences director search committee, Institute of computational and engineering sciences, UT Austin.

Member, UTIG search committee

Member, JSG Energy initiative search committee

Member, UTIG Fellowship committee

Member, Graduate admissions and support committee (UTIG representative)

Member, Graduate studies committee (GSC), Department of Geological Sciences

Member, Graduate studies committee (GSC), Computational and Applied Math Program, UT Austin

Member, Graduate studies sub-committee (GSSC), three-year term, Computational and Applied Math Program, UT Austin, Area C: Mathematical modeling of a natural, engineered, or other system.

Past UT/UTIG Committees:

Member, Steering Committee, Jackson School of Geosciences 2003–2005

Chairman, UTIG Computer committee 2000–2005

Co-chairman, UTIG Seminar committee 2003–2005

Awards and Honors:

Recipient of John A. and Katherine G. Jackson Chair in Applied Seismology, 09/07

Joseph C. Walter Jr. Award for Research Excellence - 2007

Listed in Marqus Who’s Who

Recipient of Weeks Endowed Fellowship, Dept of Geological Sciences at the Jackson School of Geosciences, UT Austin.

Recipient of Jackson Endowed Senior Fellowship at the Jackson School of Geosciences, UT Austin.

“Free gas and gas hydrate saturation estimation from multi-component seismic data offshore Oregon,” Paper by Kumar, Sen, and Bangs awarded an outstanding student paper award at the AGU fall meeting 2004 in San Francisco, California.

“Joint stochastic inversion of pre-stack seismic data and well logs for high-resolution reservoir delineation and improved production forecast.” Paper by Varela, Torres-Verdin, and Sen presented at SEG 2003 in Dallas was selected as best paper presented by a student at SEG2003. Recognition was presented during SEG2004 in Denver, Colorado.

“Multilayer AVO inversion using genetic algorithms.” Paper by Sen and Stoffa presented at the SEG/EAEG Summer Research Workshop ‘92, selected the best paper on AVO inversion.

Recipient of SEG Scholarships, 1984-85, 1985-86, 1986-87.

Recipient of ISM silver medal for ranking first in first class in B.Sc. and M.Sc. at Indian School of Mines.

Recipient of J. Watumul Foundation Award for the most outstanding student in Geology and Geophysics at the University of Hawaii, 1986.

Recipient of National Merit Scholarship, Gov’t. of India at the undergraduate level.

Ph.D. Advisor:

L. N. Frazer, University of Hawaii

Scientists with whom I have collaborated (outside UTIG):

Current

M. F. Wheeler, Clint Dawson, H. Klie–UT Computational and Applied Math

J. T. Fokkema, C. P. A. Wapenaar–Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

S. Fomel–UT Bureau of Economic Geology

R. Tatham, UT Geology

S. Srinivasan, UT Petroleum Engineering

U. Dutta, N. N. Biswas, University of Alaska, Fairbanks.

Doug Foster, Dave Lane, Partha Routh, Dan Whitmore – Conoco-Phillips, Houston.

Past

R. Ferguson, University of Calgary

Art Weglein–University of Houston

C. S. Rai, C. Sondergeld–University of Oklahoma

L. Lake–UT Dept. of Petroleum Engg, C. Torres-Verdin–UT Dept. of Petroleum Engr.,

C. Connor –Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, C. Sondergeld–Amoco, Tulsa (Now at the University of Oklahoma, Tulsa), C. Rai–Amoco, Tulsa (Now at the University of Oklahoma, Tulsa)

S. K. DeSarkar–Mobil, Dallas, B. Secrest–BP, Houston, R. Chapman–DREP, Canada.

J. Gettrust–NRL/SSC, D. Lindwall -NRL/SSC, W. T. Wood–NRL/SSC.

D. Helmberger–CalTech, L. Burdick–Woodward-Clyde.

UTIG Collaborators (present and past):

N. Bangs, C. Frohlich, C. Jackson, K. McIntosh, J. Pulliam, S. Grand–UT Department of Geological Sciences, P. L. Stoffa, L. Zhao.