The University of Texas at Austin
The Jackson School of Geosciences

CURRICULUM VITAE
Paul L. Stoffa

Professor
The Institute of Geophysics (UTIG)

Shell Distinguished Chair in Geophysics
The Department of Geological Sciences (DGS)


Educational Activities:

Department of Geological Sciences Activities

Committees

1988 - 2000 Admissions and Support Committee
1983 - present Budget Council
1989 - 1992 Ad Hoc - Department of Geological Sciences/Institute for Geophysics Relations

 

Courses Taught

Fall Semester

GEO 325K/383D - Computational Methods in Geological Sciences

GEO 391- Seismic Migration and Inversion I

GEO 394 - Research in Geophysics

Spring Semester

GEO 384S - Data Processing II, Seismic Reflection Processing

GEO 391- Seismic Migration and Inversion II

GEO 394 - Research in Geophysics

 

Graduate Supervision

Currently Co-supervisor of the following PhD candidates:

Will Burnett
A General Transform for Reversible Seismic Data Processing by Nonstationary Filtering
Advisors: Stoffa / Fomel
Ent. Fall '07

Vladimir Bashkardin
Slope tomographic method in an Eulerian framework for seismic macro-velocity estimation
Advisors: Stoffa / Fomel
Ent. Fall '07

Alireza Shahin
Time Lapse Seismic Response to Production
Advisors: Stoffa / Tatham
Ent. Sp '06

Currently serving on the following PhD committees:

Mohammed Alhussain
Frequency Dependent Anisotropy

Xiaolei Song
.....

Jamin Greenbaum
Grounding line change in the Ross Sea, Antarctica (estimated 2012)

Supervised the following PhD candidates:

Chunlei Chu, PhD December 2009  
Seismic modeling and imaging with the Fourier method: Numerical analyses and parallel implementation strategies

Armando Sena, PhD December 2004
Modeling and Imaging of Ground Penetrating Radar Data

Imtiaz Ahmed, PhD December 2003
Prestack Imaging and Velocity Analysis Offshore Nicaragua

Abdulaziz Al-Aslani, PhD Fall 2001
3D Seismic Surface Multiple Attenuation: Algorithms and Analysis

Junru Jiao, PhD May 2001
Residual Migration Velocity Analysis in the Plane Wave Domain:  Theory and Applications

Jean-Paul van Gestel, PhD May 2000
Structure and Tectonics of the Puerto Rico-Virgin Islands Platform and Multi-configuration Ground Penetrating Radar Data

Vikramaditya Sen, PhD December 1998
A Seismic Survey in Antarctica, Parallel Schemes for Seismic Migration and Target Oriented Velocity Analysis

Mehmet Tani, PhD December 1998
Prestack Split-step Fourier Depth Migration Algorithms and Parallel Implementations on T2E

Carlos Varela, PhD May 1996
Automated Background Velocity Estimation in 2D Laterally Varying Media

Michael Jervis, PhD August 1993
Optimization methods for 2-D pre-stack migration velocity estimation

Eduardo Lopes de Faria, PhD August 1993
Modeling, migration and focusing analysis in transversely isotropic media

Jinyong Oh, PhD August 1993
A Deep-Penetration Seismic Study and Structural Interpretation of the Southeastern United States Continental Margin

Livia J. Squires, PhD May 1993
Reducing Artifacts in Tomographic Velocity Reconstruction

Warren T. Wood, PhD May 1993
Least Squares Inversion of Field Seismic Data for an Elastic 1-D Earth

Guillaume Cambois, PhD May 1991
Surface Consistent Deconvolution in the Log/Fourier Domain

Co-supervised the following PhD candidates:

Chaoshun Hu, PhD December 2008
Stochastic tomography and Gaussian beam depth migration

Dhananjay Kumar, PhD May 2005
Analysis of Multicomponent Seismic Data from the Hydrate Ridge, Offshore Oregon

Anubrati Mukherjee, PhD May 2002
Seismic Waveform Inversion in Anisotropic Media

Georgios Tsoflias, PhD Fall 1999     
Characterization of Near-Surface Hydrogeologic Properties Through High Frequency Electromagnetic Surveying

Faqi Liu, PhD August 1999
Free Surface Multiple Elimination Operators and their Applications

Faruq Akbar, PhD August 1997
Pre-stack 2-D and 3-D Depth Migration in the t-p Domain

Carlos Calderon-Macias, PhD August 1997
Artificial Neural Systems for Interpretation and Inversion of Seismic Data

Ganyuan Xia, PhD August 1997
Prestack Migration and AVO Inversion

Raghu Chunduru, PhD May 1996
Global and Hybrid Optimization in Geophysical Inversion

Served on the following PhD committees:

Tiancong Hong, PhD May 2008
Uncertainties in Reservoir Characterization Using Seismic Data

Irina Filina, PhD December 2007
Geophysical investigations of subglacial lakes Vostok and Concordia, East Antarctica

Rishidev Bansal, PhD May 2007
Seismic Characterization of Fractured Reservoirs

Jason E. Gumble, PhD December 2006
Complete Anisotropic Analysis of Three Component Seismic Data Related to the   Marine Environment and Comparison to Nine Component Land Seismic Data

Chandan Kumar, PhD December 2006
Parameter Inversion for Seismic Anisotropy

Celso A.M. Neto, PhD August 2004
Migração Pre-Empilhamento em Profundidade Utilizando Ondas Planas (Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil)     

Chengshu Wang, PhD June 2003
Joint Inversion of P- and S-waves:  Estimation of Seismic Velocity Structure and Density of Gas Hydrate-bearing Sediments, Offshore Oregon

Eric M. Matzel, PhD April 2002
Seismic Structure of the Upper Mantle Beneath Crotons

J.W. Schoolmeesters, PhD Spring 2001     
Three-Dimensional Processing of Marine Seismic Data by Spectral Decomposition, Delft University of Technology

Salem G. Al Juhani, PhD May 1999
Data Integration for Reservoir Characterization: A Central Arabian Oil Fiel

Rafael E. Banks, PhD August 1998
Time Harmonic Field Electric Logging

Daniel H.N.Barker, PhD May 1997
Geophysical Investigation of an Extending Marginal Basin in a Convergent Plate Margin Setting – Bransfield Strait/Antarctic Peninsula: it's Crustal Structure, Tectonic Evolution, and Implications for Andean Orogenesis

Duk Kee Lee, PhD May 1996
The Upper Mantle Structure Beneath the Colorado Rocky Mountains and the East Pacific Rise

Ran Zhou, PhD May 1996
High Velocity Zone Beneath the Southern Tibetan Plateau and Fast Global Optimization of Earthquake Source Parameters

Xiao-Yang Ding, PhD May 1995
Seismic Structure of the Deep Kurile Subduction Zone

György Marton, PhD May 1995
Jurassic Evolution of the Southeastern Gulf of Mexico

James Layton Simmons, PhD May 1993
Practical Seismic Inversion

Steven J. Cardimona, PhD May 1992
Studies in Seismic Scattering

Mark James Graebner, PhD may 1991
Generalized Linear Inversion in a Transversely Isotropic Solid

Nikolaos Bernitsas, PhD December 1990
Traveltime Inversion, Modeling and Interpretation of Fault Surface Reflections

Christopher Jude Finn, PhD December 1990     
Travel Time Inversion in Three-Dimensional, Inhomogeneous Media

William Corso, PhD December 1987
Seismic Stratigraphy of Lower Cretaceous Carbonate Platforms, Florida and Campeche Banks

Tracy Joseph Stark, PhD August 1986
Information from Deep Water Seismic Reflection Data:
LASE Line 2

           
Supervised the following MS candidates:

Ali M. Aljadher, MS Spring 2008
Imaging of R3 Profile of Chicxulub Offshore Seismic Data, For Better Mapping the Deformation Pattern of the Chicxulub Impact Crater

Hao Xun, MS Summer 2007
A 3-D Seismic Investigation of the Distribution of Gas Hydrate and Free Gas and Their Relationship to the Structure and Stratigraphy of Hydrate Ridge

Saleh Al-Saleh, MS Summer 2001
Processing and imaging of multi-component ocean bottom cable data in plane wave domain

John Stachowiak, MS May 2000
The Nature and Causes of Backstop Deformation in the Northern Lesser Antilles Subduction Zone

Stefan Paul Muszala, MS December 1998
Magnetics of the Puerto Rico Trench and Aeromagnetics of the North Slope of Alaska

Matt Ralston, MS May 1994
Analysis of the COCORP Texas Line

Mehmet C. Tanis, MS May 1993
A Comparison of Migration Methods in Laterally Varying Media

Hugh W. Winkler, MS May 1992
Some Strategies for Linear Inversion

Walter P. Kessinger, III, MS May 1991
2-D and 3-D Migration Comparisons from the Costa Rica 3-D Survey

Paul S. Riherd, MS May 1990
Seismic Investigations of Two Proposed Nuclear Waste Repositorie

Warren T. Wood, MS August 1989
One and Two-Dimensional Velocity Inversion in the Domain of Intercept Time and Ray Parameter:  An Example in the Nankai Trough

Co-supervised the following MS candidates:

Stephan Clark, MS December 1999
Non-volcanic Rifted Margin, Offshore Portugal: An Integrated MCS and OBS Study

Lis Könnecke, MS December 1997
Early Development of the Southern Kerguelen Plateau (Indian Ocean) from Ocean Bottom Seismograph and Multichannel Seismic Reflection Data

Eddy C. Luhurbudi, MS May 1997
Processing a High Resolution 3D Survey of the Shallow Subsurface on the Continental Shelf of New Jersey

Kriyanti Setiyono, May 1996
A Comparative Study of Multiple Suppression Methods

Served on the following MA committees:

Trevor J Aitken, MS 2005
Cenozoic Stratigraphic and Tectonic History of the Grenada and Tobago Basins as Determined From Marine Seismic Data, Wells, and Onland Geology

David L. Gorney, MS 2005
Chronology of Cenozoic Tectonic Events in Western Venezuela and the Dutch Antilles Based on Integration of Offshore Seismic Reflection Data and Onland Geology

Erick Leuro, MS 2004
GIS compilation of geologic, geophysical, and remote sensing data from St. Elias Mountains, southern Alaska

Paulo Ricardo Santos, December 1997
Inversão Elãstica 1-D Utilizando Algorithmos Genéticos, Universidade Federal da Bahia

Timothy J. Hoar, December 1993
Altimetric Observations of Oceanic Response to Atmospheric Forcing

 

While at the Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil (July 1985–July 1986) as a Visiting Professor, I supervised 12 MSc. students and the following PhD Candidates:

Raimundo Mesquita de Luna, (Defense – December, 1987)
Freire Migração Por Mudança De Fase Em Duas Etapas

Reynam Da Cruz Pestana, (Defense – December, 1987)
Deconvoluçã Na Presença De Ruido Coerente De Alta Amplitude ("Groundroll")

 

Institute for Geophysics Activities

Committees

1994 - 2008 Director, UTIG
1990 - 1995 UT/TAMU Joint Advisory Council for Marine Programs
1989 - 1991 Ad Hoc - Dept. of Geological Sciences/Institute for Geophysics Relations
1988 - 1994 Associate Director, UTIG
1988 - 1990 Ad Hoc - New Ship
1988 - 1994 Ship & Equipment (Chairman, 1990 - 92)
1983 - present Budget Council
1983 - 1994 Science Council (Chairman, 1984)
1983 - 1987 Computer Committee

 

Postdoctoral Fellows Sponsored:

Armando Sena, November 2007
University of Texas at Austin

Long Jin, June 2006 – August 2008
China Petroleum University

Sanjeev Kumar, October 2006 – February 2007
Kurukshetra Univeristy, India

Youlong Xia, December 2001 – December 2003
University of Munich

Qiaozhen Mu, October 2001 – November 2003
Peking University

Hyeong–Tae Jou, October 1998 – September 1999
Korea Ocean Research & Development Institute
Seoul, Korea

Reynam Pestana, January 1998 – January 1999
University of Bahia
Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Phil Bording, August 1995 – August 1997
University of Tulsa
Tulsa, Oklahoma

Jay Pulliam, January 1995 – January 1997
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, California

Milton Porsani, September 1992 – September 1993
University of Bahia
Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Eiichiro Nishiyama, March 1988 – December 1988
University of Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan

Marco A. B. Botelho, July 1987 – July 1989
University of Bahia
Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Visiting Scholars Sponsored:

Jacira Freitas, November 2004 – March 2005
University of Bahia
Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Milton Porsani, January 2001 – February 2001
University of Bahia January 2002 – March 2002
Salvador, Bahia, Brazil January 2003 – March 2003
December 2003 – February 2004

Reynam Pestana, January 1998 – January 1999
University of Bahia January 2000 – February 2000
Salvador, Bahia, Brazil May 2002 – June 2002
February 2005 – March 2005
December 2007 – March 2008

Hedi Poot, September 1997 – December 1997
Delft University of Technology
The Netherlands

Annejifke W. Mulder, September 1994 – November 1994
Delft University of Technology
The Netherlands

Radmila Tatalovic, January 1990 – July 1990
Delft University
The Netherlands

Rigmor Mette Elde, July 1987 – June 1988
University of Bergen
Bergen, Norway