Prof. Koichi Hayashi
Dr. Koichi Hayashi is presently a Senior Researcher at Geometrics, Inc. in San Jose, California and OYO Corporation in Japan. Over the past 32 years, he has worked as a research geophysicist focusing on providing better tools and algorithms for near-surface geophysical methods. He earned a M.S. degree in Earth Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. in Earth Resources Engineering from Kyoto University in Japan. His main research areas are seismic refraction, active and passive surface waves, and traveltime inversion. He is the author of the SeisImager one of the premier active and passive surface waves, refraction, and downhole data processing packages. In 2014, he was selected as the SEG Near-Surface Honorary Lecturer with his talk entitled “Integrated Geophysical Methods Applied to Geotechnical and Geohazard Engineering: From Qualitative to Quantitative Analysis and Interpretation”. Most recently, he was a contributing author to the textbook entitled “Seismic Ambient Noise”. He is currently in charge of a lecturer for a SEG training course “Passive Surface Wave Methods Using Ambient Noise: from Basic 1D Soundings to High-resolution 3D Imaging”.
Dr. Tapan Mukerji
Tapan Mukerji is a Professor (Research) in the Departments of Energy Science & Engineering, Geophysics and Earth & Planetary Sciences at Stanford University. He received his B.S, Physics, and M.S. (Tech.), Geophysics from BHU, India, and his Ph.D. in Geophysics from Stanford University. The focus of Mukerji’s multi-disciplinary research, with students and colleagues, has been on integrating rock physics, wave propagation physics, spatial data science, and machine learning and their broad applications in subsurface characterization, stochastic geomodeling, uncertainty quantification and value of information in Earth sciences. He uses theoretical, computational, and statistical methods, to discover and understand fundamental relations between geophysical data and rock properties, to quantify uncertainty in subsurface models, and to address value of information for decision making under uncertainty. Prof. Mukerji was awarded the Society of Exploration Geophysicists’ Karcher award in 2000 and the ENI award in 2014 for pioneering innovations in theoretical and practical rock physics for seismic reservoir characterization. He co-directs the Stanford Center for Earth Resources Forecasting (SCERF), the Stanford Rock and Geomaterials (SRB) Project (SRGP) and the Stanford Basin Processes and Subsurface Modeling (BPSM) project.
Prof. Kiichiro Kawamura
With an impressive list of professional experiences, he currently holds the position of Research Professor at the Graduate School of Science and Technology for Innovation (Earth Science) at Yamaguchi University since August 2021. Prior to this, from April 2012 to July 2021, he served as an Associate Professor at the same institution. Professor Kawamura's expertise extends beyond borders, as shown by his tenure as a Guest Researcher at the University of Tromso for a brief period in August to October 2012. Notably, he obtained his Doctorate in August 2005 from the Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences at the University of Tsukuba. Before joining Yamaguchi University, he dedicated over a decade of his career to research as a valuable member of the Fukada Geological Institute, from April 1999 to March 2012.
Dr. Liu Hai
Dr. Hai Liu got his Bachelor and Master degrees from Tongji University, and PhD degree from Tohoku University, Japan, in 2013. Currently, he is a professor and the associate dean of School of Civil Engineering, Guangzhou University, China. His research interests include non-destructive detection and evaluation of near-surface objects. He has authored or co-authored more than 80 Journal papers. Since 2020, he has been an associate editor of IEEE GRSL.
Dr. Aaron Davis
Aaron Davis is a Principal Research Scientist Team Leader of EM and Seismic in the Mineral Resources Business Unit at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). Based in Perth, Western Australia, Aaron has a keen interest in the application of geophysical methods for near surface investigations. He is currently interested in developing forward and inverse methods for airborne- and ground-based electromagnetic techniques with a focus on groundwater investigation and exploration and regolith classification. He works closely with a multi-disciplinary team for these purposes and regularly publishes journal articles and reports for external clients. He is a member of several geophysical communities around the world, has participated in convening several international conferences, and is an Associate Editor for Exploration Geophysics.
Dr. Kosuke Chimoto
Dr. Kosuke Chimoto is an associate professor at the faculty of engineering and design in Kagawa University, Japan since 2021. He is also appointed at the institute of education, research and regional corporation for crisis management Shikoku in Kagawa University. He received Dr. in earthquake engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology, and had been an assistant professor since 2013. His research interests include sedimentary basin structure, microtremor exploration, autocorrelation and cross correlation of seismic noise and earthquake records, and earthquake ground motion simulation.
Prof. Takeshi Tsuji
Takeshi Tsuji received a Ph.D. (2007) from the University of Tokyo, Japan. From 2007 to 2012, he was an assistant professor of Kyoto University. From 2010 to 2011, he stayed at rock physics department of Stanford University. From 2012 to 2016, he was an associate professor of International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research, Kyushu University. From 2017 to 2021, he was a professor of Kyushu University. From 2022, he is working as professor of School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo.
His research includes geophysics, seismology, hydrology geodesy and planaetary science. He has published >190 peer-reviewed papers and he won awards from the Seismological Society of Japan, the Geological Society of Japan, the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) and American Geophysical Union (AGU). He also received the Young Scientists’ Prize from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan, and the Western Japan Cultural Award.
Greg Street
Gregory Street MSc is a Director of Loupe Geophysics started his career in mineral exploration but joined the Geological Survey of WA in 1983 and focused on environmental geophysics. In 1990 he joined World Geoscience Corporation to apply airborne geophysical methods for environment. This work received a National Landcare Award. He was General Manager of Sandfire Resources and ran the company up to the discovery of the DeGrussa Mine a multi-billion, dollar deposit. He has lectured in Environmental Geophysics at Curtin University. Greg was twice president of the Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists as well as the recipient of the Lindsay Ingall Memorial Award Grahme Sands Award and Honorary Membership.
Prof. Yin Changchun
Changchun Yin earned his MS. degrees in geophysics from Changchun University of Earth Sciences, China, in 1987 and his PhD from Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany, in 1999. He was a German Academic Exchange Services (DAAD) scholar. In 2000, he joined Fugro Airborne Surveys, Canada, as a senior research geophysicist, majoring in airborne EM (AEM) forward modeling and inversions, and developed numerous algorithms for AEM data processing and interpretations. In 2011 he joined Jilin University, China, where he is now a distinguished professor in geophysics. His research interests cover the modeling and inversion of EM fields in complicated media for airborne, ground, marine, and borehole EM, including 2-D and 3-D inhomogeneous or electrically anisotropic media. He has published more than 150 papers and was honored the Geophysics Bright Spot paper in 2018. He won the Prize in Science and Technology Innovation from the Chinese Geophysical Society in 2015. Dr. Yin is currently the associate editor of Geophysics, and guest editors of JGE, Remote Sensing, and Minerals. He is a member of SEG, AGU, and EAGE and was an SEG Mining and Geothermal Committee Member from 2008 to 2016.