RESUME OF PO CHEN
EDUCATION
PhD in Geological Sciences (Seismology), August, 2005
Dissertation title: A Unified Methodology on Seismic Waveform Analysis and Inversion.
Advisor: Thomas H. Jordan
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
B.S. in Geophysics, June, 2000
B.S. in Economics, June, 2000
Beijing University, Beijing, China
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Postdoctoral Research Scientist, July 2006 - present
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO), Columbia University
Postdoctoral Research Associate, October 2005 - July 2006
Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC)
Research Assistant, August 2000 - August 2005
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
Certificate for Mathematical Geophysics & Uncertainty in Earth Models, June 2004
Department of Geophysics, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado
FUNDED PROPOSALS
[1] Second-Moment Source Parameters from Broadband Seismic Data in the Los Angeles Region, 2003,
funded by Southern California Earthquake Center.
[2] Evaluation and Refinement of SCEC Community Velocity Model Version 3.0 of Southern California, 2003,
funded by Southern California Earthquake Center.
[3] A Unified Approach to The Inversion of Waveform Data for Source and Earth Structure in Southern California, 2004,
funded by Southern California Earthquake Center.
[4] Full 3D Waveform Tomography and Near Real-time Finite Source Parameter Inversion in Southern California based on the Scattering-Integral (SI) Method. PI: Po Chen, co-PI: James B. Gaherty, Li Zhao and Thomas H. Jordan. Feb 1st 2007 - Jan 31st 2008, $40,000. Funded by SCEC.
[5] Seismic Characterization of Fault Damage and Healing over Multiple Length and Time Scales on the San Andreas Fault, Parkfield and the Calico Fault in the Eastern California Shear Zone. PI: Yong-gang Li, co-PI: Po Chen, Elizabeth Cochran. Feb 1st 2007 - Jan 31st 2008, $20,000. Funded by SCEC.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Teaching Assistant, Spring 2005
Course name: Earthquakes (Geology240)
Instructor: Prof. Leon Teng
HONORS & AWARDS
Outstanding Student Presentation Award, 2005 Seismological Society of America Annual Meeting, Lake Tahoe
Seismological Research Letter, V76, No.6, Nov/Dec, 2005, pp723.
Final Year Dissertation Fellowship, 2004 University of Southern California
Best Volunteer for Chinese Student and Scholar Association, 2005 University of Southern California
Excellent Student Scholarship, 1998 - 1999 Beijing University
Student of the Year, 1998 - 1999 Beijing University
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2000 - present
Seismological Society of America (SSA), 2003 - present
SERVICES
[1] Reviewer for GJI, 2006.
[2] Convener of special session "Advanced Methods in Seismic Tomography", Fall 2006, AGU Meeting.
[3] Member of the selection committee for "AGU Student Awards", Fall 2006, AGU Meeting.
[4] Reviewer for BSSA, GJI, NSF, 2007.
SKILLS
Computer
Large scale parallel numerical computation on distributed-/shared-memory Linux clusters using Fortran77/90, C/C++ and Python with the Message Passing Interface (MPI). Most of my parallel computing experience was acquired at the hpc cluster in University of Southern California. This Linux cluster has about 2000 CPUs and is ranked among the seven top academic supercomputers in the world.
Software packages: Seismic Unix, Seismic Analysis Code (SAC), Generic Mapping Tools (GMT), Matlab, Latex, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Adobe (Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat)
Platforms: Unix (SUN), Linux, MS-DOS, Windows 98/2000/NT/XP, Macintosh
Languages
Bilingual in English and Mandarin