Current Students

*Supervisor/Co-supervisor of the following students*
	Name	Department	Degree
1.	Travis Richards	UT Dept of Geological Sciences	M.S
2.	Yi Tao	UT Dept of Geological Sciences	Ph.D.
3.	Isaac Smith	UT Dept of Geological Sciences	Ph.D.
4.	Son Phan	UT Dept of Geological Sciences	Ph.D
5.	Corey Joy	UT Dept of Geological Sciences	M.S
6.	Mohammed Al-hussain	UT Dept of Geological Sciences	Ph.D
7.	Adam Alan	UT Dept of Geological Sciences	Undergraduate Honors student (Geophysics major)

*Currently serving on the committees of the following students*
	Name	University	Degree
1.	James Lyons	UT Dept. of Geological Sciences	Ph.D.
2.	Edgar A. Pinzon	UT Dept. of Geological Sciences & Bureau of Economic Geology	Ph.D.
3.	Kiomars Eskandari	UT Dept. of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering	Ph.D. 05/08
4.	Erick Leuro	UT Dept. of Geological Sciences	Ph.D. 12/07
5.	Bryce Wagner	UT Dept. of Geological Sciences	Ph.D.
6.	Enrique	UT Dept. of Geological Sciences	Ph.D.
7.	Chaoshun Hu	UT Dept. of Geological Sciences	Ph.D.
8.	Chun Lei	UT Dept. of Geological Sciences	Ph.D.
9.	Will Burnet	UT Dept. of Geological Sciences	Ph.D.
10.	Vladimir Druskinin	UT Dept. of Geological Sciences	Ph.D.
11.	Yang Wang	UT Dept. of Geological Sciences	Ph.D

Past Students

Supervisor/Co-supervisor of the following students Degrees Completed:
Name Project Title		Department	Degree	Date Complete
1.	Jonas DeBasabe	Computational and Applied Math	Ph.D.	05/08
2.	Samik Sil	UT Dept. of Geological Sciences	Ph.D.	05/08
3.	Ma Jitao	China University of Petroleum	Ph.D	05/08
4.	Abdulaziz Al-Muhaidib “Pre-stack inversion for estimating porosity of a carbonate reservoir”	UT Dept. of Geological Sciences	M.S	05/08
5.	Reeshidev Bansal “seismic characterization of fractured reservoirs:	UT Dept. of Geological Sciences	Ph.D.	05/07
6.	Sanjay Sood “t* estimation: Costa Rica Seismic Experiment”	UT Dept. of Geological Sciences	M.S.	05/07
7.	Russell Young “ Porosity estimation from pre-stack seismic data: Marco Polo filed Gulf of Mexico”	UT Dept. of Geological Sciences	M.S	05/07
8.	Chandan Kumar “Seismic imaging and parameter estimation in heterogeneous anisotropic media”	UT Dept. of Geological Sciences	Ph.D.	05/06
9.	Joost van der Noot “stress estimation from fault plane reflection coefficient”	Applied Geophysics, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands	M.Sc.	08/06
10.	Dhananjay Kumar “Seismic Imaging in azimuthally anisotropic media”	UT Dept. of Geological Sciences	Ph.D.	05/05
11.	Chengshu Wang “Velocity estimation of gas hydrate”	UT Dept. of Geological Sciences	Ph.D.	08/03
12.	Armando Sena “Imaging and analysis of GPR data”	UT Dept. of Geological Sciences	Ph.D.	12/04
13.	Gijs Meek	Mining Engr and Applied Geophysics, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands	M.Sc.	12/03
14.	Anubrati Mukherjee “Seismic Processing in transversely isotropic media: A tau-p approach”	UT Dept. of Geological Sciences	Ph.D.	05/02
15.	Abdul Aziz Al-Aslani “Developing, testing, and evaluating wave equation based multiple removal methods for marine seismic data”	UT Dept. of Geological Sciences	Ph.D.	12/01
16.	Saleh Al-Saleh "Processing of ocean bottom cable data"	UT Dept. of Geological Sciences	M.S	12/01
17.	Faqi Liu “Free surface multiple elimination operators and their applications”	UT Dept. of Geological Sciences	Ph.D.	05/99
18.	Mehmet C. Tanis “Prestack plane wave migration in 3-D”	UT Dept. of Geological Sciences	Ph.D.	09/98
19.	Faruq Akbar “Prestack migration velocity estimation in plane wave domain”	UT Dept. of Geological Sciences	Ph.D.	06/97
20.	Carlos Calderon-Macias “Feedforward NN, Hopfield network and mean field annealing in seismic waveform inversion”	UT Dept. of Geological Sciences	Ph.D.	05/97
21.	Ganyuan Xia “Prestack Migration and Inversion”	UT Dept. of Geological Sciences	Ph.D.	05/97
22.	Eddy C. Luhurbudi “Traveltime calculation in 3-D”	UT Dept. of Geological Sciences	M.A.	12/96
23.	Raghu Chunduru “Hybrid linear/nonlinear inversion of geophysical data”	UT Dept. of Geological Sciences	Ph.D.	02/96
24.	Kriyanti Setiyono “Comparison of Multiple Elimination Methods”	UT Dept. of Geological Sciences	MA	12/95

*Served on the committees of the following students* Degrees Completed:
Name Project Title		Department	Degree	Date Completed	Role
1	Audrey Neau	L’Université de Pau, France	Ph.D 05/09	05/07	Committee
2	Sasha Carter	UT Dept. of Geological Sciences	Ph.D. 05/08	05/07	Committee
3	Theresa Diehl	UT Dept. of Geological Sciences	Ph.D. 08/08	05/07	Committee
4.	Irina Filina	UT Dept. of Geological Sciences	Ph.D.	12/07	Committee
5.	Marc L. Buursink	Boise State University	Ph.D	12/06	Committee
6	Carmen Gomez	UT Dept. of Geological Sciences	M.S.	05/05	Committee
7	Jason Stine “Sensitivity of AVO to fluid properties in porous media”	UT Dept. of Geological Sciences	M.S.	05/04	Committee
8	Hedi Poot	Mining Engr and Applied Geophysics, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands	Ph.D.	05/04	Committee
9	Imtiaz Ahmed “Seismic Imaging of wide angle seismic data”	UT Dept. of Geological Sciences	Ph.D.	12/03	Committee
10	Matt Morris	UT Dept. of Geological Sciences	M.A.	12/03	Committee
11	Omar J. Varela Londono	UT Dept. of Petroleum Enginnering	Ph.D.	08/03	Committee
12	Junru Jiao “Migration velocity estimation in 2D and 3D”	UT Dept. of Geological Sciences	Ph.D.	08/01	Committee
13	Jean Paul van Gestel	UT Dept. of Geological Sciences	Ph.D.	05/00	Committee
14	Vikramaditya Sen “Estimation of seismic velocities in the Barbados accretionary prism using iterative prestack depth migration on 3-D multichannel and ocean-bottom seismometer data”	UT Dept. of Geological Sciences	Ph.D.	09/98	Committee
15	Mahesh Rajagopalan “An image processing approach to migration for point diffractors”	UT Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering	MSE	05/98	Committee
16	Fernando P. Campozana “The Use of Production Data in Reservoir Description”	UT Dept. of Petroleum Engineering	Ph.D.	05/97	Committee
17	Duk Kee Lee “Imaging study of the upper mantle seismic velocity structure beneath the Rocky Mountain front”	UT Dept. of Geological Sciences	Ph.D.	05/96	Committee
18	Carlos Varela “Background Velocity Estimation in Laterally Varying Media”	UT Dept. of Geological Sciences	Ph.D.	12/95	Committee
19	Michael Jervis “Optimization methods for 2-D pre-stack migration velocity estimation”	UT Dept. of Geological Sciences	Ph.D.	08/93	Committee
20	Eduardo Lopes de Faria “Modeling, migration and focusing analysis in transversely isotropic media”	UT Dept. of Geological Sciences	Ph.D.	08/93	Committee
21	Livia J. Squires “Reducing Artifacts in Tomographic Velocity Reconstruction”	UT Dept. of Geological Sciences	Ph.D.	05/93	Committee
22	Mehmet C. Tanis “A Comparison of Migration Methods in Laterally Varying Media”	UT Dept. of Geological Sciences	MA	05/93	Committee
23	Warren T. Wood “Least Squares Inversion of Field Seismic Data for an Elastic 1-D Earth”	UT Dept. of Geological Sciences	Ph.D.	05/93	Committee
24	Paul Zwartjes “Seismic Data Regularization”	Acoustic Physics, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands	Ph.D.	12/05	External Foreign Examiner

Post-Doctoral Researchers and Visiting Scientists Sponsored
1.	Dr. Jonas DeBasabe	04/09-present
2.	Prof. Yang Liu, China University of Petroleum	09/08-present
3.	Dr. Adrian Ciucivara	01/08–05/09
4.	Dr. Ravi Srivastava	03/08-05/09
5.	Dr. Armando Sena	10/07–06/09
6.	Dr. Jin Long, Post-doctoral Fellow	05/06–09/08
7.	Dr. A. Pal, Post-doctoral Fellow	05/06–04/08
8.	Dr. Abhijit Gangopadhyay, Post-doctoral Fellow	01/06–10/07
9.	Dr. Nimisha Vedanti	5/07-4/08
10.	S. Rajput, Post-doctoral Fellow	12/06–02/07
11.	Joost van der Noot, Graduate student Delft University	01/06–04/06
12.	S. Rajput, Graduate student, NGRI, India	10/06–11/06
13.	Dr. Utpal Dutta, University of Alaska, Fairbanks	07/05
14.	Dr, Murthi Guddati, Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina	06/01/04–07/15/04
15.	Dr. Y. Xia, Post-doctoral fellow	01/01/02–12/31/03
16.	Dr. Qiaozhen Mu, Post-doctoral fellow	01/01/02–12/31/03
17.	Dr. Wulfgang Bangerth	09/01/03–04
18.	Dr. Indrajit G. Roy, Post-doctoral fellow	11/01/00–08/31/03
19.	Dr. Zhan Wu, Post-doctoral Fellow	03-04
20.	Dr. Ranjit K. Shaw, Post-doctoral fellow	06/01/02–05/31/03
21.	Dr. Lopamudra Roy, Post-doctoral fellow	06/01/02-05/31/03
22.	Prof. Robert Nowack, Purdue University, Visiting scientist	02/01/01–03/31/01
23.	Prof. Milton Porsani, Visiting scientist	01/01–02/28/01
24.	Dr. J. Pestana, Postdoctoral Fellow	09/98–08/99
25.	Dr. Faruq Akbar, Postdoctoral Fellow	07/97–09/98
26.	Dr. Roustam Seif, Research Fellow, Programmer	09/98–04
27.	Dr. Jay Pulliam, Postdoctoral Fellow	01/95–08/97
28.	Dr. R. Phillilp Bording, Postdoctoral Fellow	08/95–07/97

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