Appointment

Feb 2020 Postdoctoral fellow, Resaerch School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University
  ▪ Focus: Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) array deployment and analysis

Education

2019 Phd in Geophysics, Caltech
  ▪ Thesis title: Seismic Waveform Modeling of Natural Hazards and Sharp Structural Boundaries
  ▪ Advisors: Prof. Don Helmberger (primary), Prof. Zhongwen Zhan (primary), Prof. Jennifer Jackson, and Prof. Victor Tsai
2016 MSc in Geophysics, Caltech
2014 BA in Geophysics, UC Berkeley
  ▪ Highest Honors with Departmental Citation
  ▪ Advisors: Prof. Doug Dreger, Dr. Taka'aki Taira

Field experience

Dec 2021 DAS deployment on ALIRT dark fiber, Melbourne
May 2021 DAS deployment on NASA Deep Space Network dark fiber, Canberra
July 2017, 2018 Deployment of dense nodal seismic arrays, San Gabriel Basin, California
Aug 2016 Seismometer recovery for Homestead 3D Array deployment,South Dakota
Apr 2015, 2016 Geophysical active surveys of Camp Rock Fault, Johnson Valley, CA
July 2014 Ocean bottom seismometer recovery for Cascadia Initiative, offshore Oregon

Teaching

2022 Lecturer, Introduction to Global Geophysics (2nd year course), ANU
2021 Primary supervisor of undergraduate student research, ANU
2019 Awarded Certificate of Practice in University Teaching, Caltech
2015 - 2019 Teaching assistant, Caltech
  ▪ Taught four graduate-level courses: Advanced Seismology, Plate Tectonics, and Applied Geophysics (2 terms)
2016 - 2019 Facilitator, Caltech Annual Teaching Conferences
  ▪ Developed and led five new workshops for incoming teaching assistants (TAs), focusing on American classroom culture, international TAs, communication skills, facilitating classroom discussions, and writing problem sets and exams
2008 High School Substitute Teacher, Malaysia
  ▪ Improved lesson plans on Mathematics and History for students in remedial classes
  ▪ Developed training plan and coached the school choir in preparation for state championship

Invited Talks

Nov 2021 Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics seminar, UC San Diego
Nov 2021 4th Brazilian Seismology Symposium
Oct 2021 AuScope Research Conference
Aug 2021 SAGE/GAGE Distributed Acoustic Sensing Workshop
Apr 2020 RSES seminar, Australian National University
Aug 2018 Earth Observatory of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Feb 2017 Earth Observatory of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Awards

2022 ANU Merit Allocation Scheme on National Computational Infrastructure, Australia
2014 Graduate Student Fellowship, Caltech
2014 Departmental Citation, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, UC Berkeley
2014 Phi Beta Kappa
2013 Dean’s Honors List, UC Berkeley
2012 Cal Alumni Association Leadership Award, UC Berkeley
2008 - 2014 PETRONAS (Malaysia) Educational Scholarship

Professional Memberships

  ▪ DAS – Research Coordination Network (Data Management)
  ▪ American Geophysical Union
  ▪ Seismological Society of America
  ▪ Southern California Earthquake Center