Alumni
Below is a list of Ph.D. graduates from the Seismological Laboratory at Caltech beginning from 1950. Please report any inaccuracies or omissions to [email protected].
| Year | Name | Position | Institution |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | Peter Dehlinger | Deceased | University of Connecticut |
| 1953 | Robert Donald Forester | - | - |
| 1954 | Clarence R. Allen | Deceased | Caltech |
| 1954 | George G. Shor, Jr. | Deceased | UC San Diego |
| 1955 | Cinna Lomnitz | Deceased |
National University of Mexico, Mexico City |
| 1958 | Allan Robert Sanford | Deceased | New Mexico Tech |
| 1960 | Edward Flinn, III | Deceased | NASA |
| 1961 | Ari Ben-Menahem |
Professor Emeritus (Comp. Sci. & Applied Math.) |
Weizmann Institute |
| 1961 | John Helding Healy | Deceased | U. S. Geological Survey |
| 1961 | Robert Alden Phinney |
Professor Emeritus (Geophysics) |
Princeton University |
| 1961 | Stewart W. Smith |
Professor Emeritus (Earth & Space Sciences) |
University of Washington |
| 1962 | Don L. Anderson | Deceased | Caltech |
| 1962 | Robert Kovach | Professor Emeritus | Stanford University |
| 1963 | Shelton S. Alexander | Deceased | Pennsylvania State University |
| 1963 | David G. Harkrider | Deceased | Caltech |
| 1963 | M. Nafi Toksoz |
Professor Emeritus (Earth, Atmos. & Planetary) |
MIT |
| 1964 | Charles B. Archambeau | Deceased | University of Colorado |
| 1964 | Shawn Biehler | Deceased | UC Riverside |
| 1964 | Armando Cisternas | Professor | Inst. de Physique du Globe |
| 1964 | John K. Gardner | Retired | UC Los Angeles |
| 1965 | Robert Victor Sharp | Retired | U. S. Geological Survey |
| 1966 | Lane R. Johnson | Professor Emeritus | UC Berkeley |
| 1966 | Ta-Liang Teng |
Professor Emeritus (Earth Sciences) |
University of Southern California |
| 1966 | Francis T. Wu | Professor of Geophysics | SUNY Binghamton |
| 1968 | Thomas L. Henyey | Professor Emeritus | Univ. of Southern California |
| 1968 | Richard J. O'Connell | Deceased | Harvard University |
| 1969 | Hartmut A. Spetzler | Professor Emeritus | University of Colorado |
| 1970 | Bruce R. Julian | Geophysicist | U.S. Geological Survey |
| 1970 | Paul G. Richards | Professor Emeritus | Columbia University |
| 1970 | Max Wyss | Director | International Centre for Earth Simulation Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland, Senior Researcher |
| 1971 | Walter J. Arabasz | Research Professor Emeritus (Geology and Geophysics) | University of Utah |
| 1971 | James A. Cutts | - | Center for Space Microelectronics, JPL |
| 1971 | David P. Hill | Deceased | U.S. Geological Survey |
| 1971 | Charles G. Sammis | Professor of Earth Sciences | Univ. of Southern California |
| 1972 | Geoffrey F. Davies | Professor Emeritus | Australian National University |
| 1972 | Edward S. Gaffney | President | G.R.E. |
| 1972 | Thomas C. Hanks | Geophysicist | U.S. Geological Survey |
| 1972 | Wayne R. Thatcher | Geophysicist | U.S. Geological Survey |
| 1972 | Stephen H. Wolfe | Monitor UPCAP | UPCAP |
| 1973 | Thomas H. Jordan | Professor of Geophysics | University of Southern California |
| 1973 | Pierre H. Jungels | Chief Executive | Petrofina (UK) Ltd. |
| 1973 | Jean-Bernard Minster | Professor of Geophysics | Scripps Institute of Oceanography/UCSD |
| 1973 | James H. Whitcomb | Retired, Program Director | National Science Foundation |
| 1974 | Ralph W. Alewine, III | - | DARPA/NMRO |
| 1974 | Hon. Rex Gibbons | Retired | Newfoundland, Canada |
| 1974 | Peter L. Lagus | - |
Lagus Applied Technology, Inc., Escondido, CA |
| 1974 | Hsi-Ping Liu | Deceased | U. S. Geological Survey |
| 1976 | Charles A. Langston | Professor of Seismology and Earth Structure, Director of the Center for Earthquake Research and Information | University of Memphis |
| 1977 | Lawrence J. Burdick | Deceased | - |
| 1977 | Robert J. Geller | Professor Emeritus | University of Tokyo |
| 1977 | Robert S. Hart | Entrepreneur | - |
| 1977 | John Dugan O'Keefe | Deceased | - |
| 1978 | David M. Hadley | VP of Engineering | Quinton Instrument Co. |
| 1978 | Thomas H. Heaton | Professor Emeritus | Caltech |
| 1978 | James A. Hileman | - | - |
| 1978 | Dan D. Kosloff | Professor of Geophysics | Tel Aviv University |
| 1978 | George R. Mellman | VP of Research | Insightful Corp |
| 1978 | Emile A. Okal | Professor Emeritus | Northwestern University |
| 1978 | Susan A. Raikes | Independent Geophysical Consultant | British Petroleum |
| 1978 | Seth A. Stein | Professor | Northwestern University |
| 1979 | Rhett G. Butler | Director-Hawaii Inst of Geophysics & Planetology | University of Hawaii, Manoa |
| 1979 | Wai-Ying Chung | Associate Professor of Mathematics/Physics | Rust College |
| 1979 | Raymond Jeanloz | Professor, Dept of Geology and Geophysics | UC Berkeley |
| 1979 | Carl E. Johnson | Fellow | BAESytems, Spectral Solutions, LLC, Honolulu |
| 1979 | Jose A. Rial | Professor of Geological Sciences | Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
| 1979 | Carlos Salvado | - | Rockwell International |
| 1980 | David M. Cole | - | - |
| 1980 | Allen Gillespie |
Professor of Earth & Space Sciences |
University of Washington |
| 1980 | Gregory A. Lyzenga | Professor of Geophysics/ Member, Technical staff, JPL | Harvey Mudd College, CA |
| 1981 | John Cipar | Geophysicist | U.S. Air Force AFGL/LWH |
| 1981 | John E. Ebel |
Professor, Director, Western Observatory |
Boston College |
| 1981 | Joanna M. Vizgirda | - | Amigos Energy, Dallas |
| 1982 | Larry J. Ruff | Professor of Geological Sciences | University of Michigan |
| 1982 | Gordon S. Stewart | President | Pacific Geophysics, Inc. |
| 1983 | Eric P. Chael | Seismologist | Sandia Nat. Lab. |
| 1983 | Stephen N. Cohn | Dir. of Network Anal. | BBN Communications |
| 1983 | Keith A. Echelmeyer | Deceased | University of Alaska, Fairbanks |
| 1983 | Thorne Lay | Professor of Earth Science | UC Santa Cruz |
| 1983 | Hsui-Lin Liu | Research Scientist | Schlumberger-Doll Research |
| 1983 | James C. Pechmann | Research Associate Professor | University of Utah |
| 1983 | Marius S. Vassiliou | Member Technical Staff | Rockwell International Science Center |
| 1983 | Terry C. Wallace | Director | Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| 1984 | Edward J. Corbett | - | - |
| 1984 | Mark B. Boslough | Member Technical Staff | Sandia Nat. Lab. |
| 1984 | Jeffrey W. Given | Senior Staff Geophys. | Science Application International Corporation |
| 1984 | Marianne C. Walck | Supervisor, Geophysics | Sandia Nat. Lab. |
| 1985 | Thomas M. Hearn | Associate Professor | New Mexico State University |
| 1985 | Eugene D. Humphreys | Professor | University of Oregon |
| 1985 | Ronan J. Le Bras | Senior Geophysicist | Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Org. |
| 1985 | Patricia F. Scott | - | - |
| 1986 | Holly K. Eissler Given | Executive Director, IODP Science Support Office | Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
| 1986 | Stephen Grand | Professor | University of Texas, Austin |
| 1986 | Mark A. Richards | Professor | University of Washington |
| 1986 | Sally M. Rigden-Hill | Manager, Operations and Resources | Molecular Mining Corp., Canada |
| 1986 | Christopher O. Sanders | - | Microsoft |
| 1987 | Luciana Astiz | Research Scientist | UC San Diego |
| 1987 | Heidi B. Houston | Professor of Earth Sciences | University of Southern California |
| 1987 | John N. Louie | Professor of Seismology | Univ. of Nevada, Reno |
| 1987 | Janice Regan | Senior Lecturer | Simon Fraser University, Canada |
| 1987 | Douglas R. Schmitt | Professor and Endowed Chair | Purdue University |
| 1987 | David R. Scott | Financial Analyst | Deutsch Bank, London |
| 1987 | John E. Vidale |
Professor, Director of Southern California Earthquake Center |
University of Southern California |
| 1988 | Phyllis H. Ho-Liu | - | - |
| 1988 | Manfred A. Lange | Director | Westfalische Wilhelms Universitat, Munster, Germany |
| 1988 | Christof Stork | Entrepreneur, Research Associate | Halliburton Inc. |
| 1988 | Robert F. Svendsen, Jr. | Professor of Mechanics | University of Dortmund, Germany |
| 1988 | Jiajun Zhang | Deceased | - |
| 1989 | Marcus Bursik | Professor of Geology | SUNY Buffalo |
| 1989 | Carol A. Polanskey | Member Technical Staff | JPL |
| 1989 | Carol Prentice | Geologist | U.S. Geological Survey |
| 1989 | Stephen L. Salyards | Programmer Analyst Supervisor | UC Los Angeles |
| 1989 | Richard Stead | Research Scientist | Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| 1990 | William W. Anderson | Scientist | Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| 1990 | Allison Bent | - | Dept. of EMR, Canada |
| 1990 | J. Huw Davies | Professor | Cardiff University, Wales |
| 1990 | Olafur Gudmundsson | Professor | Uppsala University |
| 1990 | Shawn Larsen | Group Leader | Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab. |
| 1990 | L. Victoria LeFevre | - | - |
| 1990 | Harold Magistrale | Prinicipal Research Scientist | FM Global, Boston |
| 1990 | Gregory H. Miller | Professor, Applied Numerical Algorithms Group | UC Berkeley |
| 1990 | Hua-Wei Zhou | Margaret S. Sheriff Professor of Geophysics | University of Houston |
| 1991 | Robert Graves | Research Geophysicist | US Geological Survey |
| 1991 | Lorraine Hwang | Associate Director, CIG | UC Davis |
| 1991 | Scott D. King | Professor of Geophysics | Virginia Tech |
| 1991 | Frank Webb | Technical Staff | JPL |
| 1991 | Lian-She Zhao | - | Molecular Dynamics Sunnyvale, CA |
| 1992 | Andrea Donnellan | Scientist | JPL |
| 1992 | Thomas S. Duffy | Professor of Geosciences | Princeton |
| 1992 | Sally McGill | Professor of Geological Science | Calif. State University, San Bernardino |
| 1992 | Catherine L. Smither | Entrepreneur | Seattle, WA |
| 1992 | David J. Wald | Supervisory Research Geophysicist | U.S. Geological Survey, Golden, CO |
| 1992 | Bradley B. Woods | - | Woodward Clyde Consultants |
| 1992 | C. Bruce Worden | Geophysicist | U.S. Geological Survey, Pasadena, CA |
| 1992 | Yu-Shen Zhang | Research Scientist | UC Santa Cruz |
| 1992 | Douglas S. Dreger | Professor of Geophysics | UC Berkeley |
| 1993 | Lisa Grant Ludwig | Professor Public Health | UC Irvine |
| 1993 | Kuo-Fong Ma | Professor | National Central University, Taiwan |
| 1993 | Linda R. Rowan | Director of Govenrment Affairs | American Geological Institute |
| 1994 | Edward J. Garnero | Professor | Arizona State University |
| 1994 | Xiaodong Song | Professor | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 1994 | Paul J. Tackley | Professor | ETH, Zurich, Switzerland |
| 1995 | Weishi Huang | Senior Software Engineer | Cisco Systems, Inc. |
| 1995 | Monica D. Kohler | Research Professor in Mechanical and Civil Engineering | California Institute of Technology |
| 1995 | Laura E. Jones | Sr. Research Associate | Cornell University |
| 1995 | Shingo Watada | Research Associate | ERI, University of Tokyo |
| 1996 | Sharon Kedar | Research Scientist | JPL |
| 1996 | Hong Kie Thio | Seismologist | URS Corp. |
| 1996 | Wenbo Yang | Senior Engineer | Schlumberger Reservoir Completions Ctr. |
| 1997 | Guangking (George) Chen | VP of Engineering Operations | Brion Technologies, San Francisco, CA |
| 1997 | Xi Song | - | Green Hills Software, CA |
| 1998 | Xiaoming Ding | Director | Alpha & Omega Semiconductor, Cupertino, CA |
| 1998 | Craig Scrivner |
Computer Systems Administrator/Programmer |
Central Washington University |
| 1998 | Lianxing Wen | Professor | State University of New York at Stony Brook |
| 1998 | Blair Zajac | Strategic Project Lead | Akamai Technologies |
| 1998 | Lupei Zhu | Professor of Geophysics | St. Louis University |
| 1999 | Kathleen Holland | Analyst | Xontech (contracting company) |
| 1999 | Miriam Jackson | Research Scientist |
Norwegian Water Resources & Energy Department |
| 1999 | Cangli Liu | Researcher/Deputy Director | Southwest Inst. of Fluid Physics, China |
| 1999 | Timothy Melbourne | Professor | Central Washington University |
| 1999 | Jascha Polet | Professor | Cal Poly Pomona |
| 1999 | Igor Sidorin | Engineering Lead | Llloyd's Banking Group, London |
| 2000 | Emily Brodsky | Professor of Earth and Planetary Science | UC Santa Cruz |
| 2000 | Jeanne Hardebeck | Geophysicist | U.S. Geological Survey |
| 2001 | Magali Billen | Professor; Vice Chair for Graduate Programs | UC Davis, CA |
| 2001 | Leo Eisner | President | Seismik s.r.o. |
| 2001 | Julie Nazareth | Professor | Cal Poly, Pomona |
| 2001 | Sidao Ni | Professor of Geophysics | USTC, China |
| 2002 | Chen Ji | Professor of Geophysics | UC Santa Barbara |
| 2002 | Anupama Venkataraman | Geoscientist | ExxonMobil |
| 2003 | Joseph Akins | Registered Nurse | Keck Medical Center of USC |
| 2003 | Shengnian Luo | Director and Professor of Physics | The Peac Institute of Multiscale Sciences, China |
| 2003 | Matthew Pritchard | Director of Graduate Studies for Geological Science | Cornell University |
| 2003 | Patricia Persaud | Associate Professor | University of Arizona |
| 2004 | Javier Favela | Sr. Staff Engineer Structural | NorthropGrumman, Gardena, CA |
| 2004 | Rowena Lohman | Professor | Cornell University |
| 2004 | Brian Savage | Department Chair and Associate Professor | University of Rhode Island |
| 2005 | Jane Dmochowski | Senior Lecturer | University of Pennsylvania |
| 2005 | Kaiwen Xia | Associate Professor | University of Toronto |
| 2005 | Bill Keller | Chief Geophysicist | EOG Resources, Houston, TX |
| 2006 | Anita Ai (Huirong) | Business Intelligence Engineer | Amazon, Seattle, WA |
| 2006 | Ying Tan | - | - |
| 2006 | Qinya Liu | Professor | University of Toronto |
| 2006 | Debbie Smith | Geophysicist | U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA |
| 2006 | Eh Tan | Associate Research Fellow | Academia Sinica, Taiwan |
| 2007 | Zhimeh Yan | Research Geophysicist | WesternGeco |
| 2007 | Alex Song | Senior Lecturer | University of Sydney |
| 2007 | Vala Hjorliefsdottir | Head of Innovation and strategic planning | Reykjavík, Iceland |
| 2008 | Eun-Seo Choi | Associate Professor | University of Memphis |
| 2008 | Chris Dicaprio | Computational Scientist | GNS, NZ |
| 2008 | Nathan Downey | Scientist | Sandia National Laboratory |
| 2008 | Min Chen | Deceased | |
| 2009 | Yoshihiro Kaneko | Associate Professor of Geophysics | Kyoto University, Japan |
| 2009 | Carl Tape | Professor of Geophysics | University of Alaska Fairbanks |
| 2009 | Ozgun Konca | Assistant Professor of Geophysics | Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute, Boğaziçi University, Turkey |
| 2009 | Daoyuan Sun | Professor, School of Earth Sciences | University of Science and Technology of China |
| 2009 | Shengji Wei | Associate Professor | Nanjang University,Singapore |
| 2010 | Ravi Kanda | Research Fellow | Utah State University |
| 2010 | Lijun Liu | Professor | University of Illinois, Urbana |
| 2010 | Sarah Minson | Research Geophysicist | U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA |
| 2011 | YoungHee Kim | Professor | Seoul National University |
| 2011 | Michelle Selvans | Geology Instructor | Clovis Community College |
| 2011 | Sonja Spasojevic | Subsurface Transformation Manager | British Petroleum |
| 2012 | Laura Alisic | Mission System Engineering/Architecture Group Supervisor | JPL |
| 2012 | Daniel Bower | Geophysicist | University of Bern |
| 2012 | Ting Chen | Scientist | Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| 2012 | Caitlin Murphy | Group Manager II | National Renewable Energy Lab |
| 2013 | Thomas Ader | Project director at Accenta.ai | Paris, France |
| 2013 | Lingsen Meng | Associate Professor | University of California Los Angeles |
| 2013 | Francisco Ortega | Assistant Professor | University of Chile |
| 2013 | Kristin Phillips-Alonge | Geophysicist | DTRA |
| 2013 | Jeffrey Thompson | Engineering Geologist | California Regional Water Quality Control Boards, Los Angeles Region |
| 2013 | Zhongwen Zhan | Professor | Caltech |
| 2014 | Sara Dougherty | Senior Seismologist | Karen Clark & Company, Boston |
| 2014 | Yihe Huang | Associate Professor | University of Michigan |
| 2015 | Dongzhou Zhang |
Beamline Scientist GSE-CARS |
University of Chicago/University of Hawaii |
| 2016 | Brent Michew | Professor | MIT |
| 2016 | Junle Jiang | Assistant Professor | University of Oklahoma |
| 2016 | Yiran Ma | Quantative Researcher | Citadel Securities, FL |
| 2016 | Hilary Martens | Associate Professor | University of Montana, Missoula |
| 2016 | Dunzhu Li | Quantitative Researcher | Citadel LLC |
| 2016 | Asaf Inbal | Faculty | Tel Aviv University |
| 2017 | Bryan Riel | Associate Professor | Zhejiang University, China |
| 2017 | Semechah Lui | Assistant Professor | University of Toronto, Canada |
| 2017 | Natalia Solomatova | Computational and Experimental Geochemist | Vancouver, Canada |
| 2017 | Chris Rollins | COMET Postdoctoral Research Fellow | University of Leeds |
| 2017 | Yingdi Luo | Post-doc | JPL |
| 2018 | Stephen Perry | Research Analyst | CNA Corporation |
| 2018 | Daniel Bowden | Lecturer | ETH, Zurich, Switzerland |
| 2018 | Kangchen Bai | Associate | Morgan Stanley, NYC |
| 2018 | Xiaolin Mao | Machine Learning Tech Lead | Pinduoduo Inc. |
| 2019 | Rachel Morrison | Associate Data Scientist | BioFire Diagnostics, LLC |
| 2019 | Vishagan Ratnaswamy | Machine Learning Researcher | Kintsugi |
| 2020 | Voon-Hui Lai | Research Fellow | Australian National University |
| 2021 | Valère Lambert | Associate Researcher | UC Santa Cruz |
| 2021 | Jack Muir | Researcher | University of Oxford |
| 2022 | Jorge Castillo Castellanos | Earthquake Seismologist and Data Scientist | Lumetec |
| 2022 | Vasilije Dobrosavljevic | Post-doc | Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, D.C. |
| 2022 | Zhe Jia | Research Assistant Professor | University of Texas Austin |
| 2022 | Celeste Labedz | Post-doc | University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada |
| 2022 | Stacy Larochelle | Post-doc | Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory/Columbia University |
| 2022 | Zhichao Shen | Post-doc | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
| 2022 | Oliver Stephenson | Geoscience Fellow | Congress, Washington, D.C. |
| 2022 | Minyan Zhong | Meta | San Francisco/Bay Area, CA |
| 2022 | Ethan Williams | Post-doc | University of Washington |
| 2023 | Olivia Pardo | Postdoctoral Researcher | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| 2024 | James Atterholt | Post-doc | U.S. Geological Survey Golden, Colorado |
| 2024 | Krittanon Sirorattanakul | Post-doc | Chevron Houston, Texas |
| 2024 | Yan Yang | Post-doc | Scripps Institute of Oceanography/UCSD |