Sergey Fomel

Professor, Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences
Wallace E. Pratt Professorship in Geophysics
Mailcode: E0620
Sergey Fomel is a Professor at the Jackson School of Geosciences, the University of Texas at Austin, with a joint appointment between the Bureau of Economic Geology and the Department of Geological Sciences. He received a Ph.D. in Geophysics from Stanford University in 2001 and worked previously at the Institute of Geophysics in Russia, Schlumberger Geco-Prakla, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Sergey received a number of professional awards, including the J. Clarence Karcher Award from SEG in 2001 and the Conrad Schlumberger Award from EAGE in 2011. He devotes part of his time to developing"Madagascar", an open-source software package for geophysical data analysis.
Areas of Expertise
Computational and exploration geophysics; seismic imaging; wave propagation; seismic data analysis; inverse problems; geophysical estimation
Research Locations
Current Research Programs & Projects
Texas Consortium for Computational Seismology ( view )Honorable Mention, Best Poster - Society of Exploration Geophysicists (2015)
Tinker Family BEG Publication Award - Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin (2014)
Outstanding Educator Award - Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin (2012)
Conrad Schlumberger Award - European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (2011)
Best Poster presented at the SEG Annual Meeting - Society of Exploration Geophysicists (2010)
Lorand Eotvos Award - European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (2007)
Honorable Mention, Best Poster - Society of Exploration Geophysicists (2007)
Best Poster presented at the SEG Annual Meeting - Society of Exploration Geophysicists (2006)
Honorable Mention, Best Paper - Geophysics (2003)
J. Clarence Karcher Award - Society of Exploration Geophysicists (2001)
Vice President for Publications, Board of Directors, Society of Exploration Geophysicists (2017 - 2019)
Co-Chair, Technical Program Committee, Society of Exploration Geophysicists (2017)
Chair, Distinguished Lecturer Committee, Society of Exploration Geophysicists (2015 - 2017)
Guest Associate Editor, Special section on Thin Beds, Interpretation (2014 - 2015)
Guest Associate Editor, Special issue on Signal and Noise Separation, Geophysics (2014 - 2015)
Chair, Publications Committee, Society of Exploration Geophysicists (2013 - 2015)
Guest Associate Editor, Special section on Diffraction Imaging, Interpretation (2013 - 2015)
Member, Distinguished Lecturer Committee, Society of Exploration Geophysicists (2012 - Present)
Chair, Technical Program Committee, Society of Exploration Geophysicists (2011)
District Representative, Council, Society of Exploration Geophysicists (2011 - 2013)
Guest Editor, Special issue on Seismic Imaging, International Journal of Geophysics (2010 - 2011)
Guest Associate Editor, Special issue on Seismic Data Sampling, Geophysics (2009 - 2010)
Guest Editor, Special issue on Reproducible Research, Computing in Science and Engineering (2008 - 2009)
District Representative, Council, Society of Exploration Geophysicists (2008 - 2011)
Member, Publications Committee, Society of Exploration Geophysicists (2008 - Present)
Member, Technical Program Committee, Society of Exploration Geophysicists (2007)
Chair, Translations Committee, Society of Exploration Geophysicists (2007 - 2010)
Associate Editor, Seismic Migration and Signal Processing, Geophysics (2004 - 2009)
Creator and Project Manager, Madagascar, an open-source software package for geophysical data analysis (2003 - Present)
Creator and Project Manager, SEGTeX, an open-source LaTeX package for geophysical publications (2001 - Present)
Postdocs
Xinming Wu
Xinming Wu received an engineering degree (2009) in Geophysics from Central South University, an M.Sc. (2012) in Geophysics from Tongji University, and a Ph.D. (2016) in Geophysics from the Colorado School of Mines where he was a member of the Center for Wave Phenomena. He interned twice at Transform Software and Services/DrillingInfo during the summer and winter of 2014. Since...
Xinming Wu
Xinming Wu received an engineering degree (2009) in Geophysics from Central South University, an M.Sc. (2012) in Geophysics from Tongji University, and a Ph.D. (2016) in Geophysics from the Colorado School of Mines where he was a member of the Center for Wave Phenomena. He interned twice at Transform Software and Services/DrillingInfo during the summer and winter of 2014. Since...
Tieyuan Zhu, 2014 - 2016, Stanford University
Assistant Professor at the Pennsylvania State University
Mark Lai, 2014 - 2017, University of Maryland, College Park
Data Scientist at Zilliant
Hejun Zhu, 2013 - 2015, Princeton University
Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Dallas
Mehdi Far, 2013 - 2014, University of Houston
Principal Scientist at Halliburton
Alexander Klokov, 2011 - 2013, Gubkin University of Oil and Gas
http://www.jsg.utexas.edu/researcher/alexander_klokov/
Jingwei Hu, 2011 - 2014, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Assistant Professor at Purdue University
Hesam Kazemeini, 2010 - 2011, Uppsala University
Geophysicist at BP
Roman Kazinnik, 2009 - 2010, Tel-Aviv University
Geophysicist at ConocoPhillips
Yang Liu, 2007 - 2010, Jilin University
Professor at Jilin University
Jules Browaeys, 2006 - 2009, Institut de Physique du Globe
Geophysicist at Total E&P
Graduate Students
Zhicheng Geng , Ph.D., expected 2022 (Supervisor)
Nam P Pham , M.S., expected 2019 (Supervisor)
Zhiguang Xue , Ph.D., expected 2018 (Supervisor)
Dmitrii Merzlikin
, Ph.D., expected 2018
(Supervisor)
Seismic Imaging, Inverse Theory, Signal Processing, Seismic Processing, Seismic Interpretation
Link to publications is available under the "Links" tab
Mason Phillips , M.S., expected 2017 (Supervisor)
Yanadet Sripanich (Supervisor)
Yunzhi Shi (Supervisor)
Harpreet Kaur (Supervisor)
Ben Gremillion (Supervisor)
Junzhe Sun, Ph.D., 2016
(Supervisor)
(Currently at ExxonMobil): Seismic modeling and imaging in complex media with low-rank approximation
Kelly Regimbal, M.S., 2016
(Supervisor)
(Currently at ExxonMobil): Improving resolution of NMO stack using shaping regularization
Parvaneh Karimi, Ph.D., 2015
(Supervisor)
(Currently at PGS): Seismic interpretation using predictive painting
Yangkang Chen, Ph.D., 2015
(Supervisor)
(Currently at Oak Ridge National Laboratory): Noise attenuation in seismic data from the simultaneous-source acquisition
Ryan Swindeman, M.S., 2015
(Supervisor)
(Currently at BHP Billiton): Iterative seismic data interpolation using plane-wave shaping
Vladimir Bashkardin, Ph.D., 2014
(Supervisor)
(Currently at BP): Phase-space imaging of reflection seismic data
Siwei Li, Ph.D., 2014
(Supervisor)
(Currently at Chevron): Imaging and velocity model building with linearized eikonal equation and upwind finite-differences
Luke Decker, M.S., 2014
(Supervisor)
(Currently at UT Austin): Seismic diffraction imaging methods and applications
Shaunak Ghosh, M.S., 2013
(Supervisor)
(Currently at CGG): Multiple suppression in the t-x-p domain
Xiaolei Song, Ph.D., 2012
(Supervisor)
(Currently at BP): Application of Fourier finite differences and lowrank approximation method for seismic modeling and subsalt imaging
Salah Al-Hadab, M.S., 2012
(Supervisor)
(currently at Saudi Aramco): Diffraction imaging of sediment drifts in Canterbury Basin
Yihua Cai, M.S., 2012
(Supervisor)
(currently at Shell): Spectral recomposition and multicomponent seismic image registration
William Burnett, Ph.D., 2011
(Supervisor)
(currently at ExxonMobil): Multiazimuth velocity analysis using velocity-independent seismic imaging
Undergraduate Students
Lubna Barghouty, B.S., 2013
(Currently at MIT): Surface-related multiple elimination and velocity-independent imaging of a 2D seismic line from the Viking Graben dataset
Yanadet Sripanich, B.S., 2013
(Currently at UT Austin): An efficient algorithm for two-point seismic ray tracing
Year | Semester | Course | |
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2018 | Fall | GEO 384H | Multidimnsnl Data Anlys In Geo |
2018 | Spring | GEO 394 | Rsch In Geological Sciences |
2018 | Spring | GEO 384S | Seismic Data Processing |
2018 | Spring | GEO 365N | Seismic Data Processing |
2017 | Fall | GEO 394 | Rsch In Geological Sciences |
2017 | Spring | GEO 394 | Rsch In Geological Sciences |
2017 | Spring | GEO 384S | Seismic Data Processing |
2017 | Spring | GEO 365N | Seismic Data Processing |
2016 | Fall | GEO 394 | Rsch In Geological Sciences |
2016 | Fall | GEO 384H | Multidimnsnl Data Anlys In Geo |
2016 | Spring | GEO 394 | Rsch In Geophysics |
2016 | Spring | GEO 384S | Seismic Reflection Processing |
2016 | Spring | GEO 365N | Seismic Data Processing |
2015 | Fall | GEO 394 | Rsch In Geological Sciences |
2015 | Spring | GEO 394 | Rsch In Geophysics |
2014 | Fall | GEO 394 | Rsch In Geophysics |
2014 | Fall | GEO 391 | Multidimensional Data Analysis |
2014 | Fall | GEO 366M | Mathematical Meths In Geophys |
2014 | Spring | GEO 394 | Rsch In Geophysics |
Graduate research opportunities in computational seismology (Graduate)
Texas Consortium for Computational Seismology is looking for Ph.D. students interested in computational research. Our group works on a broad range of topics in exploration geophysics, from wave-equation seismic imaging and inversion to computational algorithms for seismic data processing and seismic interpretation. The work is supported by industrial sponsors. We use open-source software tools and high-performace computing resources.
Madagascar
Madagascar is an open-source software package for multidimensional data analysis and reproducible computational experiments. Its mission is to provide a convenient and powerful environment and a convenient technology transfer tool for researchers working with digital image and data processing in geophysics and related fields.
Texas Consortium for Computational Seismology
The Texas Consortium for Computational Seismology is a joint initiative of the Bureau of Economic Geology (BEG) and the Center for Numerical Analysis at the Institute for Computational Engineering and Science (ICES) at The University of Texas at Austin. Its mission is to address the most important and challenging research problems in computational geophysics as experienced by the energy industry while educating the next generation of research geophysicists and computational scientists.