Yujiang Xie

Yujiang  Xie
Research Fellow, Institute for Geophysics, Jackson School of Geosciences

Office: ROC
Mailcode: R2200

Yujiang Xie is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Geophysics, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin. He earned his B.S. in Geological Engineering from the China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing) in 2010, followed by a Master's degree in Geological Engineering from Lanzhou University (China) in 2013, and a Ph.D. in Earth System Sciences from the University of Hamburg (Germany) in 2017. In 2018, he was a Researcher at the Institute of Geophysics, University of Hamburg (Germany). From 2019 to 2024, he was a Research Fellow and Visiting Fellow at Ocean and Earth Sciences, University of Southampton (UK).

His research interests include wave equations, wave simulations, seismic full waveform modeling and inversions, machine learning, and high-performance computing in various systems. In addition to his role at UT Austin, he collaborates with Principal Investigators from various universities and institutions, including the University of Southampton (UK), the University of Oxford (UK), the University of Toronto (Canada), and the MIT/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (USA), among others.

Areas of Expertise

Geophysics, Seismology


Current Research Programs & Projects

Devito: Advancing full waveform modeling and inversions

Seismic full waveform imaging of the oceanic lithosphere-asthenosphere system in the equatorial Mid-Atlantic Ridge

Viscoelastic full waveform inversion (adjoint tomography) with full Hessian and its scalable and portable implementation


Reviewer, AGU Outstanding Student Presentation Awards, AGU, USA (2019 - Present)

Member, Wave Inversion Technology Consortium (WIT), Germany (2014 - Present)