Congratulations to Dr. Abdul Hafiz S. Issah on earning the Graduate Research Award for Ph.D. students in the Department of Applied Math and Statistics! Hafiz successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation in Computational and Applied Math last Friday, titled “Compression Analysis and Coherence-Based Detection for Large-Scale Seismic Array Data,” and supervised by Eileen Martin. Hafiz’s research contributions during the Ph.D. include contributions to the open-source DASCore software, explorations of the effect of lossy compression on passive DAS data analysis workflows, theoretical error analysis relevant to seismic data processing, and development of a new algorithm that helps geophysicists explore data efficiently by zooming in on short snippets of data that are most likely to contain microseismic events. Hafiz also enthusiastically helped teach others about new scientific computing tools and techniques. We look forward to seeing Hafiz’s next steps as a computational scientist in the energy industry!
