...We take pride in our graduates and their accomplishments, for, through research and teaching, they are indeed our finest product... (excerpt from the MUSE website)

current research group

  • Heedong Goh, Postdoctoral Fellow



  • On inverse metamaterial design

  • Mingwei Cai, PhD candidate



  • On subsurface imaging

  • Mohamed Khazi, PhD candidate



  • On coupled-physics imaging

  • Tairan Li, PhD candidate



  • On subsurface imaging

PhD graduates

  • Vikram Bhamidipati, PhD
  • now: Senior Researcher & Southwest Research Institute

    Thesis: Forward and inverse modeling of conducting lattices using lattice Green's functions

  • Heedong Goh, PhD
  • now: Postdoc, Metamaterials & Plasmonics Research Lab, CUNY

    Thesis: Inverse design of metamaterials for wave control

  • Hamidreza Mashayekh, PhD
  • now: Senior Engineer, Thornton Tomasetti, NY

    Thesis: Parameter estimation in layered media using dispersion-constrained full waveform inversion

  • Seungbum Koo, PhD
  • now: Mathworks

    Thesis: Subsurface elastic wave energy focusing based on a time reversal concept

  • Babak Poursartip, PhD
  • now: Research Geophysicist, CGG, TX

    Thesis: Topographic amplification of seismic motion

  • Pranav M. Karve, PhD
  • now: Research Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Vanderbilt University, TN

    Thesis: Inverse source problems for focusing wave energy to targeted subsurface formations: theory and numerical experiments

  • Arash Fathi, PhD
  • now: Computational Scientist, ExxonMobil

    Thesis: Full-waveform inversion in three-dimensional PML-truncated elastic media: theory, computations, and field experiments

  • Chanseok Jeong, PhD
  • now: Assistant Professor, Central Michigan University, Michigan, MI

    Thesis: On an inverse-source problem for elastic wave-based enhanced oil recovery

  • Sezgin Kucukcoban, PhD
  • now: Senior Analyst, Stress Engineering Services Inc., Houston, TX

    Thesis: The inverse medium problem in PML-truncated elastic media

  • Jun Won Kang, PhD
  • now: Associate Professor, Hongik University, Seoul, Korea

    Thesis: A mixed unsplit-field PML-based scheme for full waveform inversion in the time-domain using scalar waves

  • Seong-Won Na, PhD
  • now: Senior Manager, Hyundai Engineering Co., Ltd., Seoul, Korea

    Thesis: On a class of two-dimensional inverse problems: wavefield-based shape detection and localization, and material profile reconstruction

  • Sanghoon Lee, PhD
  • now: Principal Research Engineer, Offshore Technology Research Team, GS Construction, Seoul, Korea

    Thesis: Weakly non-local, arbitrarily-shaped, absorbing boundary conditions for acoustics and elastodynamics: theory and numerical experiments

MS graduates (selection)

  • Ke Ma, MS
  • Thesis: 3D acoustic metasurfacaes for band gap control

  • Tapan Thakur, MS
  • Thesis: Wave motion simulation using spectral elements and a hybrid PML formulation

  • Pranav Karve, MS
  • Thesis: The inverse medium problem for Timoshenko beams and frames: damage detection and profile reconstruction in the time-domain

  • Chanseok Jeong, MS
  • Thesis: Shape detection and localization of a scatterer embedded in a halfplane

  • Tanjeet Juneja, MS
  • Thesis: A symmetric Galerkin boundary element method for multi-domain interface problems