Title: Postdoctoral Research Associate

Group: Theoretical & Computational Seismology Research Group and The Simons Laboratories at Princeton University

Area(s): Geophysics

Research Summary: Zhendong Zhang joined Jeroen Tromp’s and Frederik J. Simons' research groups as a postdoctoral research associate in February 2020. He received Ph.D.s in Solid Geophysics from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in 2018 and 2019, respectively. His research interests include numerical solutions for pseudo-acoustic wave equations, finding optimal objective functions for elastic FWI, deep-learning aided regularization for multiparameter estimation and surface wave inversion.

Keywords: Seismic forward modeling, elastic FWI, near surface, seismic anisotropy