PhD thesis and committees

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Post-doc, PhD and Master Supervision

 

Supervision: post-doc

  1. E. Cocher (2017–2018, 18 months), Comparison and benefits from RWI and IVA approaches
  2. D. Donno (2009–2011), multiple prediction in the curvelet domain and surface wave analysis
    ⟶ now Associate Professor, MINES ParisTech
  3. I. Karoui (2009–2010), Eddy detection in coastal oceanography (with IFREMER)
    ⟶ now Research Engineer, ENSTA, Brest, France
  4. M. Benjemaa (2008–2009), Wave-equation demigration/migration
    ⟶ now Associate Professor, University of Sfax, Tunisia
  5. T. Nguyen (2006–2008), Seismic imaging in the curvelet domain: ray+Born
    ⟶ now Research Engineer at Fugro, UK

 

Supervision: PhD students (on-going)

  1. C. El Khoury (defense for 2022), 3D imaging and monitoring from passive seismic data (co-supervision 50%)
  2. M. Farshad (defense for 2021), New seismic imaging approaches for the subsurface characterisation
  3. M. Almakari (defense for 2019), Sismicité induite dans un modèle de faille rate-and-state (co-supervision 25%)
  4. T. Zhou, Wave-equation based Inversion Velocity Analysis (defense for 2019)

 

Supervision: PhD students

  1. J. Cotton (2019), 4D seismic data analysis and processing for underground monitoring: time-lapse, continuous-time and real-time (co-supervision 50%)
    ⟶ now Research engineer at ANDRA, France
  2. H. Jiang (2019), Seismic imaging: strategies for visco-acoustic full waveform inversion
  3. Ph. Le Bouteiller (2018), Eulerian approach of Hamilton-Jacobi equation with a discontinuous Galerkin method in heterogeneous anisotropic medium: Application to seismic imaging, (Grenoble-Alpes University, co-supervision 20%)
  4. A. Kazantsev (2018), Ambient noise spectral amplitude distortions above heterogeneities: feasibility study for multi-fluid reservoir exploration and monitoring (co-supervision 25%)
    ⟶ now Research engineer at Storengy, France
  5. T. T. Leite Barros (2018), Contribution to the initialization of seismic slope tomography, DSPcom, University of Campinas, Brazil, (co-supervision 50%)
    ⟶ now Post-doctoral position International Institute of Physics from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Brazil
  6. Y. Li (2018), Subsurface seismic imaging based on inversion velocity analysis in both image and data domains
  7. S. Schilke (2017), Significance of Coupling of Distributed Fibre Optic Sensor Systems for Vertical Seismic Profiling (co-supervision 25%)
    ⟶ now Research Engineer at TNO, The Netherlands
  8. E. Cocher (2017), Iterative Migration Velocity Analysis: extension to surface-related multiple reflections
    ⟶ now at Total, Pau, France
  9. Y.-M. Batany (2016), Signal separation in convolutive mixtures: contributions to blind separation of sparse sources and adaptive subtraction of seismic multiples, co-supervision MINES ParisTech, DSPcom, University of Campinas, Brazil, (co-supervision 25%)
    ⟶ now Research Engineer at Véolia, France
  10. F. Wang (2015), Waveform inversion based on wavefield decomposition (co-supervision 50%) (pdf)
    ⟶ now Post-doctoral position at LMA, Marseille, France
  11. C.-A. Lameloise (2015), Analyse de vitesse par migration quantitative et introduction des ondes transmises (in French) (pdf)
    ⟶ now at European Patent Office, Rijswijk, The Netherlands
  12. C. A. Pérez Solano (2013), Two-dimensional near-surface seismic imaging with surface waves : alternative methodology for waveform inversion (co-supervision 50%) (pdf)
    ⟶ now Research Engineer at Shell, Rijswijk, The Netherlands
  13. S. Penz (2012), Modélisation et inversion de données électriques en courant continu : vers une prise en compte efficace de la topographie (in French) (pdf)
    ⟶ now Research Engineer at BRGM, Orléans, France
  14. B. Sun (2012), Curvelet Transform Wave Equation Solving and Migration Velocity Analysis by Adjoint State Method, Tsinghua University, China, (co-supervision 50%)
    now Post-doctoral position at KAUST, Saudi Arabia
  15. C. Taillandier (2009), Formulation de la tomographie des temps de première arrivée à partir d'une méthode de gradient : un pas vers une tomographie interactive (in French) (co-supervision 25%) (pdf)
    ⟶ now Research Engineer at Total, Pau, France

 

Supervision: Master students

  1. T. Demey (2018), Geophysical detection of voids in tunnels
    ⟶ currently at MINES ParisTech (civil engineer), France
  2. M. Mohamadian Savrandani (2018), Seismic data interpolation in the image domain
    ⟶ currently in master II GPX, IPGP, France
  3. J. Lartey (2017), Anisotropic Migration Velocity Analysis
    ⟶ currently in master II GPX, IPGP, France
  4. Z. Malik Ibrahim (2016), Migration Velocity Analysis: Applicability to Cross-well Real Data
    ⟶ then Engineer, Indonesia
  5. G. Mabyalaht (2016), Impact of modelling errors in the case of large velocity contrasts (co-supervision 50%)
    ⟶ then new Master at École Polytechnique, France
  6. H. Jiang (2015), Time-lapse migration velocity analysis
    ⟶ then PhD, MINES ParisTech, France
  7. F. Mehouachi (2015), Attenuation estimation using centroid frequency and cross-correlation applied to 2D transmitted waves
    ⟶ then PhD, IPGP, France
  8. S. Krishna (2014), A priori information for time-lapse seismic imaging
    ⟶ then PhD, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India
  9. Y. Li (2014), Sparse seismic data decomposition for velocity estimation
    ⟶ then PhD, MINES ParisTech, France
  10. E. Cocher (2013), Détermination des paramètres hydrodynamiques du bassin des Avenelles par inversion de données piézométriques (co-supervision 50%)
    ⟶ then PhD, MINES ParisTech, France
  11. F. Wang (2011), Étude de condition d'imagerie pour l'imagerie profondeur, in French (co-supervision 50%)
    ⟶ then PhD, MINES ParisTech, France
  12. E. Vi Nhu Ba (2011), Propagation des ondes acoustiques 2D par différences finies généralisées sur les maillages non structurés (co-supervision 50%)
    ⟶ then PhD, MINES ParisTech, France
  13. A. Ortiz Ríos (2011), About the curvelet transform and blurring effect (in Spanish) (co-supervision 25%), Universiy of Granada, Spain
  14. O. Akram (2010), Multiple prediction with curvelets (co-supervision 50%)
    ⟶ now Reservoir Engineer, OMW, Tunisia
  15. D. Imbert (2010), Imagerie sismique 3D de structures complexes (in French)
    ⟶ then PhD, CEA, France

 

External Committees

 

Invitation in HDR (accreditation to supervise research) committee

  1. A. Ribodetti (HDR defense) (2013), Imagerie sismique multi-échelle de la croûte terrestre. Application à l'étude des zones à risque : de l'instabilité gravitaire à la zone sismogène, University Sophia-Antipolis, France
    (reviewer)

 

Invitation in (final) PhD defense committee

  1. D. T. Ngo (2019), Numerical modeling of hydraulic stimulation and induced seismicity in deep geothermal reservoirs MINES ParisTech
    (examiner and president)
  2. M. Kalita (2019), Full-waveform inversion for large 3D salt bodies KAUST, Saudi Arabia
    (examiner)
  3. B. Solymosi (2018), A two-way approach to adapt small-scale laboratory experiments and corresponding numerical simulations of offshore seismic surveys LMA, Marseille, France
    (examiner and president)
  4. B. Tavakoli (2017), Anisotropic stereotomography: a tool for building initial model of full waveform inversion from long offset data, Sophia-Antipolis, France
    (reviewer)
  5. T. Belahi (2017), An efficient methodology for inverting seismic data for 2D viscoelastic structure and its application to a Sumatra gas rich region, IPGP, France
    (reviewer)
  6. W. Zhou (2016), Velocity model building by Full Waveform Inversion of early arrivals and reflections and case study with gas cloud effect, University of Grenoble, France
    (reviewer)
  7. I. Masoni (2016), Inversion of surface waves in an oil and gas context, University of Grenoble, France
    (reviewer)
  8. Y. Qin (2015), Nature of subducting plate and its role on megathrust offshore Sumatra by using advanced analysis technique of long streamer seismic data, IPGP, France
    (reviewer)
  9. R. Valensi (2014), Développements méthodologiques à partir de formes d'ondes multicomposantes en vue de l'imagerie sismique quantitative de la proche surface : modélisation physique à échelle réduite, traitements et inversion de la polarisation, University Nantes, France
    (reviewer)
  10. F. Lavoué (2014), 2D full waveform inversion of ground penetrating radar data. Towards multiparameter imaging from surface data, University Grenoble, France
    (reviewer)
  11. H. Wang (2014), Multi-scale inversion using wave-equation tomography and full waveform inversion, IPGP, France
    (examiner)
  12. C. Castelllanos (2014), Speed-up and regularization techniques fo seismic waveform inversion, University Sophia-Antipolis, France
    (reviewer)
  13. A. Asnaasahri (2013), Quantitative 4D seismic imaging in complex media using 2D full waveform inversion, University Grenoble, France
    (reviewer)
  14. G. Hu (2012), Three-dimensional acoustic Full Waveform Inversion: method, algorithms and application to the Valhall petroleum field, University Grenoble, France
    (reviewer)
  15. V. Prieux (2012), Imagerie sismique des milieux visco- acoustiques et visco-élastiques à deux dimensions par stéréotomographie et inversion des formes d'ondes : applications au champ pétrolier de Valhall, University Sophia-Antopolis, France
    (reviewer)

 

Invitation in mid-term PhD committee

  1. K. Bazzaouya (2019), UPMC, France
  2. R. Orsvuran (2019), Nice Sophie Antipolis, France
  3. A. Mendieta (2019), Réponse en polarisation provoquée spectrale des argiles à l'échelle de l'échantillon UPMC, Paris VI (Paris), France
  4. S. Sambolian (2018), Parsimonious Slope Tomography Based On Eikonal Solvers and the Adjoint-state Method Géazur (Nice), France
  5. M. A. Iravani (2018), Monitoring of the soil coal tar depollution using geophysical methods, UPMC, Paris VI (Paris), France
  6. L. Lévy (2017), Propriétés électriques de l'altération hydrothermale – Cas du volcan Krafla, Islande, ENS Ulm (Paris), France
  7. C. Filippi (2016, 2017), Imagerie des hétérogénéités de la subsurface par les ondes de surface, BRGM (Orléans) and IFSTTAR (Nantes), France
  8. T. Belahi (2015), Visco-elastic full waveform inversion for velocity model building and imaging, IPGP, France
  9. N. Hedjazian (2014, 2015, 2016), Modélisation des contraintes apportées par l'anisotropie sismique sur la convection mantellique, IPGP, France
  10. S. Kevin (2014), Imagerie de subsurface à partir d'une approche multi-méthode basée sur l'inversion structurale coopérative 2D – Nouvelle formation théorique et applications numériques et expérimentales sur des données électriques et sismiques BRGM (Orléans) and Paris VI, France
  11. S. Pasquet (2013) Apport des méthodes sismiques à l'hydrogéophysique : importance du rapport Vp/Vs et contribution des ondes de surface, Paris VI, France