Personnel

Current Personnel

	Yifeng Cui CV
	Dr. Yifeng Cui has experience in regional scale high performance earthquake simulations, and an adjunct professor at San Diego State University. His expertise includes parallelization, optimization, and performance evaluation on both massively parallel and vector machines. He also has experience in distributed modeling, multimedia design, and visualization. He holds a Ph.D. in hydrology, a M.S. in hydroclimatology, and a B.S. in meteorology.
	Alexander Breuer
	Alexander Breuer received his diploma in mathematics in 2011 from Technische Universität München (TUM) and successfully finished his doctoral studies at the Chair of Scientific Computing of TUM in 2015. Alexander’s research covers optimizations in the entire simulation pipeline. This includes node-level performance leveraging SIMD-paradigms, hybrid and heterogeneous parallelization up to machine-size and co-design of numerics and large-scale optimizations. In 2014 Alexander was honored with an ACM/IEEE-CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowship for his doctoral research project. In addition he and his collaborators have been awarded with the PRACE ISC Award and nominated as ACM Gordon Bell finalists for their outstanding end-to-end performance reengineering of the seismic software package SeisSol.
	Amit Chourasia Personal Webpage
	Amit Chourasia is lead of Visualization Services at SDSC. His work centers around the development and application of software tools that allow simulation of massively large data sets produced by scientific and engineering applications. His academic research is in animation, computer graphics, and visualization. He holds a Baccalaureate degree in architecture and a Master's degree in Computers Graphics Technology.
	Dawei Mu
	Dawei Mu Ph.D., is a computational geophysicist, with years of heterogeneous computation programming experience. He received his Ph.D from University of Wyoming in 2015 and worked on many projects like developing paralleled, GPU-enabled software with Discontinuous Galerkin method program, joint seismic/EM inversion program and discontinuous mesh adapted Finite Difference method program. His research interest is focused on developing high performance scientific software with hybrid computational environment.
	Dmitry Pekurovsky
	Dmitry Pekurovsky Ph.D., is a senior computational scientist with training in Theoretical/Computational High Energy Physics and many years of experience in High Performance Computing. He has worked on a number of projects in diverse areas such as Lattice QCD, Bioinformatics, Turbulence and Oceanography. He is the author of numerical library P3DFFT http://www.p3dfft.net. His interests include code optimization, performance evaluation, open source software, numerical libraries and enabling large-scale simulations.
	Daniel Roten
	Daniel Roten is a computational seismologist. Prior to SDSC, he was a senior research and lecturer with Swiss Seismological Service, ETH Zuerich. He received his Ph.D in seismology from ETH in 2007.
	Hui Zhou
	Hui Zhou is a visiting scholar from Second Monitoring and Application Center, China Earthquake Administration (CEA), who received his Masters Degree in CS from Chang'an University in 2009. His research interest is focused on seismic wave simulation with heterogeneous computation technology.

Students

	Arjun Srinivasan
	Arjun Srinivasan is a High Performace Computing Research Assistant at SDSC. He is currently a second year undergraduate student at UC San Diego majoring in Computer Science. His work focuses on assisting the development, testing, and maintenance of seismic wave propogation software, and running this software on powerful supercomputers.
	Josh Tobin
	Josh Tobin is a PhD student in the Department of Mathematics, UCSD. He got his Masters degree at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, where he worked in the Mathematical Neuroscience Group. His current research centers around spectral graph theory and its applications.
	Gautam Wilkins
	Gautam is currently a PhD student in the Department of Mathematics at UC San Diego. He received B.A. Degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science from UC Berkeley. His research focus is in computational algorithms for uncertainty quantification.

Alumni

Layton Chen, Lucy Chen, Sheau-Yen Chen, Dong Ju Choi, Dr. Sashka Davis, Sweta Gupta, Susan He

Dr. Yuanfang Hu, Dr. Timothy Kaiser, Kwangyoon Lee, Barry Lockwood, Dr. Hieu Nyugen, Efecan Poyraz

Dr. Joey Reed, Dmytro Sokolovskyy, Shiyu Song, Dr. Heming Xu, Dr. Cathy Zeng, Boyan Zhang, Yuxiang Zhang, Jing Zhu

External Collaborators

Dr. Scott Baden , Professor of Computer Science, University of California, San Diego

Dr. Xing Cai , Professor, Simula Research Laboratory, University of Oslo

Dr. Po Chen, Assistant Professor in the Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Wyoming

Dr. Zizhong Chen, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Riverside

Dr. Steven M. Day, Professor in the Department of Geological Sciences, San Diego State University

Dr. James Dieterich , Professor of Geophysics, Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside`

Dr. Thomas Jordan , Professor in Geological Sciences, Director of Southern California Earthquake Center, University of Southern California

Dr. Timothy Kaiser , Director of High Performance and Research Computing, Colorado School of Mines

Mr. Philip Maechling , Information Technology Architect, Southern California Earthquake Center

Dr. Jean-Bernard Minster , Professor, Scripps Institute of Oceanography/University of California, San Diego

Dr. Kim Olsen, Professor in the Department of Geological Sciences, San Diego State University

Dr. Dhabaleswar K. Panda , Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University