Prof. David Yuen [University of Minnesota, USA]

Title: Solution to Big Data Problems in Geosciences | 地学的大数据解决之道

Time: 2:00 - 3:00 PM, Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Place: Conference room 410, HPSTAR (Shanghai)

Host: Howard Sheng

Abstract

Today it is well recognized that there is a Big Data revolution. This movement now moves into geosciences. We discuss the implications specifically for seismology and mineral physics.

We will also offer viable solutions to enter this new field by education, software training. and hardware acquisition.

Biography of the Speaker:





Prof. David Yuen graduated in 1969 from Caltech in chemistry. He then received a master in physical chemistry from UC Berkeley and a PHD in geophysics and geophysics in 1978 with a minor in applied mathematics from UCLA Following a two year NATO and NSF postdoctoral fellowships, he went to Arizona State University as assistant professor in geology. In 1985 he moved two times, first to Dept. of Geological Sciences at university of Colorado at Boulder in January as associate professor, then in September to University of Minnesota, as associate professor in geophysics and Fellow of Minnesota Supercomputer Institute. Since 2012, he has been spending 3 to 4 months each year at the School of Environmental Studies at 中国地质大学武汉 as a 长江 professor. He works mainly in computational geodynamics with interests also spanning to visualization and now Big Data大数据. He has published around 550 papers and edited six books in geophysics and high-performance computing. His h-index is 61 according to Thomas-Reuters.