Zachary E. Ross
Assistant Professor of Geophysics; William H. Hurt Scholar
B.S., University of California, Davis, 2009; M.S., California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, 2011; Ph.D., University of Southern California, 2016. Assistant Professor, Caltech, 2019-; Hurt Scholar, 2021-.
Research Overview
My research is focused on developing an improved understanding of earthquakes and faults. I develop scalable algorithms for extracting scientifically valuable signals from large seismic datasets using techniques from artificial intelligence and statistics. I then assimilate these extracted signals to perform comprehensive analyses of the geometry of fault zones at seismogenic depths; probe the intricate spatiotemporal details of earthquake sequences; and understand the physics of earthquakes in relation to the structural architecture of fault zones.
Publications
- Sirorattanakul, Krittanon;Wilding, John D. et al. (2025) Bursts of Fast Propagating Swarms of Induced Earthquakes at the Groningen Gas FieldSeismological Research Letters
- Zou, Caifeng;Azizzadenesheli, Kamyar et al. (2024) Deep neural helmholtz operators for 3D elastic wave propagation and inversionGeophysical Journal International
- Shi, Yaozhong;Lavrentiadis, Grigorios et al. (2024) Broadband Ground-Motion Synthesis via Generative Adversarial Neural Operators: Development and ValidationBulletin of the Seismological Society of America
- Atterholt, James;Ross, Zachary E (2024) Finite source properties of large strike-slip earthquakesGeophysical Journal International
- Sun, Hongyu;Ross, Zachary E. et al. (2023) Phase Neural Operator for Multi‐Station Picking of Seismic ArrivalsGeophysical Research Letters
- Zhu, Weiqiang;Biondi, Ettore et al. (2023) Seismic arrival-time picking on distributed acoustic sensing data using semi-supervised learningNature Communications
- Muir, Jack B.;Ross, Zachary E. (2023) A deep Gaussian process model for seismicity background ratesGeophysical Journal International
- Yang, Yan;Gao, Angela F. et al. (2023) Rapid Seismic Waveform Modeling and Inversion With Neural OperatorsIEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
- Wilding, John D.;Zhu, Weiqiang et al. (2023) The magmatic web beneath Hawai'iScience
- Sirorattanakul, Krittanon;Ross, Zachary E. et al. (2022) The 2020 Westmorland, California Earthquake Swarm as Aftershocks of a Slow Slip Event Sustained by Fluid FlowJournal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth
Related Courses
2023-24
Ge 264 – Machine Learning in Geophysics
Ge 271 – Dynamics of Seismicity