Awards / Recognition

• NSF-EAR CAREER award, 2020.
• DOE INCITE (Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment) Awards (Co-I): Global Adjoint Tomography (2015-2020).
• Outstanding Reviewer (2017), Geophysical Journal International.
• Chaire d’Excellence (2014-2019): Chair position in France to support young researchers for five years with extra salary (6K/year), research budget (10K/year) and reduced teaching duty (1/3 of regular positions).
• Winner of the Excellence Program of the 32nd General Assembly of European Seismological Commission (2010).
• SPICE Marie Curie Research & Training Network, Early Career Researcher (2005-2008).

Student & Postdoc Awards/Recognition

• Reynaldo Vite (Mines PhD student), Travel grant to attend the 2022 annual meeting of the Seismological Society of America in Bellevue, WA.
• Rachel Willis (Mines PhD student), Honorary Mention for her NSF Graduate Fellowship proposal (2021).
• John Rekoske (Mines senior), Undergraduate Research Scholar Distinction at graduation in spring 2020 for the research on the effect of outer-core models on seismic waveforms (2020).
• Neala Creasy (Mines postdoctoral research associate), NSF postdoctoral fellowship (January 2020-January 2022).

Funded Proposals

• Collaborative Research: Frameworks: Seismic COmputational Platform for Empowering Discovery (SCOPED) (Co-PI, with Carl Tape (lead PI, Alaska Fairbanks), Marine Denolle (UW), Felix Waldhauser (Lamont), Ian Wang (TACC-UT Austin), NSF CSSI project (2021-2025).
• Collaborative Research: Towards improved imaging of the outermost core through determination of the effects of lowermost mantle heterogeneity and anisotropy (Co-PI, with Ed Garnero (lead PI, ASU), Dan Frost (Berkeley), Maureen Long (Yale), NSF-EAR project (2020-2023).
• CAREER: (An)elastic mantle structure based on 3D wave simulations & full-waveform inversion: From GLobal ADjoint models to visualization of Slabs, Plumes And Convection in MANtle (sole PI): NSF CAREER proposal (2020-2025).
• Investigation of Mars Interior based on 3D Simulations of Seismic Wave Propagation (sole PI): NASA proposal selected for the InSight Participating Scientist Program (2018-2021).
• Investigation of seismic signals and the structure of the InSight landing site based on receiver functions and 3D regional wave simulations (sole PI): JPL proposal with Dr. Mark Panning to support a graduate student for two semesters within the InSight mission (2019-2020, no-cost extension in 2021).
• Full-waveform inversion with ISC data of the Middle East (sole PI): Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) proposal to construct high-resolution seismic images of the region and relocate seismic sources (2019-2021).
• Seismic simulations of Mars (PI): BQR proposal to host foreign collaborators in Géoazur in 2015.

Computational Proposals

• (An)elastic global adjoint tomography (lead PI ,with Co-PI Daniel Peter from KAUST), April 2022. Leadership Resource Allocation (LRAC) on UT Austin’s Frontera system, awarded 750,000 node hours.
• (An)elastic global adjoint tomography (lead PI ,with Co-PI Daniel Peter from KAUST), April 2021. Leadership Resource Allocation (LRAC) on UT Austin’s Frontera system, awarded 2,925,000 node hours.
• (An)elastic global adjoint tomography (Co-PI, with lead-PI Daniel Peter from KAUST and Co-PI Emanuele Casarotti from INGV), April 2021. 48,400,000 core hours on PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe) Marconi100 GPU system.
• Shear-Wave Splitting in the Earth’s Mantle and Structure of the Outer Core based on 3D Seismic Wave Simulations (Co-PI, lead-PI Neala Creasy): XSEDE Resource Allocations on TACC systems. Estimated dollar value of the allocation is $5,155,968.03.
• Global Adjoint Tomography (Co-I): received an Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) award, 400,000 node-hours for 2020 dedicated to global adjoint tomography simulations on the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, IBM AC922 “Summit” system.
• Global Adjoint Tomography (Co-I): received an Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) award, 700,000 node-hours for 2019 dedicated to global adjoint tomography simulations on the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, IBM AC922 “Summit” system.
• Global Adjoint Tomography (Co-I): received an Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) award, 80 million core-hours for 2017 dedicated to global adjoint tomography simulations on the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Cray XK7 ”Titan” system.
• Global Adjoint Tomography (Co-I): received an Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) award, 80 million core-hours for 2016 dedicated to global adjoint tomography simulations on the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Cray XK7 ”Titan” system.
• Towards Exascale Seismic Imaging & Inversion (Co-I): selected by Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) into its Center for Accelerated Application Readiness (CAAR) program in 2015 to run global inversions on the next-generation supercomputer Summit in 2018.
• Global Adjoint Tomography (Co-I): received an Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) award, 50 million core-hours for 2015 dedicated to global adjointP tomography simulations on the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Cray XK7 ”Titan” system.
• InSight: Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (Collaborator): granted 250,000 core-hours in 2015 on a joint DARI campaign with IPGP on GENCI cluster of Commissariat a L’energie Atomique (CEA) to run numerical simulations for Mars.
• Global Seismic Tomography based on Spectral-Element and Adjoint Methods (Collaborator – major part in writing the proposal): received an Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) award, 100 million core-hours for 2014 dedicated to global adjoint tomography simulations on the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Cray XK7 ”Titan” system.
• Global Seismic Tomography based on Spectral-Element and Adjoint Methods (Collaborator – major part in writing the proposal): received an Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) award, 100 million core-hours for 2013 dedicated to global adjoint tomography simulations on the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Cray XK7 ”Titan” system.
• Community Computational Platforms for Developing Three-Dimensional Models of Earth Structure (Collaborator): awarded 7,300,000 core-hours to run a joint project of S. California and global inversions at NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research)-Wyoming Supercomputing Center.