University of Texas at Austin
Sergey Fomel

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websitehttps://www.jsg.utexas.edu/researcher/sergey_fomel/

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phone (512) 475-9573

office JGB 4.216F

Sergey Fomel

Affiliated Faculty

Professor Earth and Planetary Sciences

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Research Interests

Computational Engineering Inverse Problems Data Science Computational Geophysics

Biography

Sergey Fomel is the Wallace E. Pratt Professor of Geophysics at the Jackson School of Geosciences and the director of the Texas Consortium for Computational Seismology (TCCS). His research interests include exploration and computational geophysics: geophysical data analysis, seismic imaging, and inverse problems. Sergey received a PhD in geophysics from Stanford University in 2001. He is an honorary member of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) and the Geophysical Society of Houston. For his contributions to exploration geophysics, he has received several professional awards, including SEG's J. Clarence Karcher Award (2001) and the EAGE Conrad Schlumberger Award (2011). He has served SEG as Vice President for Publications and as Distinguished Lecturer (Spring 2020). He is the creator and project manager of "Madagascar," an open-source software project for geophysical data analysis.