Yujiang Xie

Yujiang  Xie
Research Fellow, Institute for Geophysics, Jackson School of Geosciences

Office: ROC
Mailcode: R2200


Yujiang Xie is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Geophysics, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin. He received a B.S. degree in Geological Engineering from the China University of Mining and Technology, Beijing, in 2010, a Master's degree in Geological Engineering from Lanzhou University, China, in 2013, and a Ph.D. degree in Earth System Sciences from the University of Hamburg, Germany, in 2017. In 2018, he worked as a Research Scholar at the Institute of Geophysics, University of Hamburg. From 2019 to 2024, he was a Research Fellow and Visiting Fellow at the Ocean and Earth Sciences, University of Southampton, UK. His research interests include wave equations, wave simulations, seismic full waveform modeling and inversions, machine learning, and high-performance computing in various systems.

Current Research Programs & Projects

Devito: Advancing full waveform modeling and inversions

Seismic full waveform imaging of the oceanic lithosphere-asthenosphere system in the equatorial Mid-Atlantic Ridge

Viscoelastic full waveform inversion (adjoint tomography) with full Hessian and its scalable and portable implementation


Reviewer, AGU Outstanding Student Presentation Awards, AGU (2019 - Present)

Member, Wave Inversion Technology Consortium (WIT) (2014 - Present)