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Assistant Research Professor – Distributed Acoustic Sensing and Machine Learning

Penn State University Park, US💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-16 → 2026-09-26

Core

Develop machine-learning methods for seismic source characterization using distributed acoustic sensing (DAS), including physics-based wavefield simulations, synthetic dataset generation, and deep-learning models for event detection and moment-tensor estimation.

Role type

Research Assistant Professor (Machine Learning & Seismology)

Builds

Production ML models for seismic analysis, synthetic datasets, and scientific publications

Domain

Geophysics / Seismology / Machine Learning

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

DAS, seismic modeling, moment-tensor inversion, deep learning, scientific programming, high-performance computing

Responsibilities

Conduct physics-based wavefield simulations; generate synthetic DAS datasets; develop deep-learning models for seismic event detection, location, and full moment-tensor estimation; validate methods using field observations; contribute to publications and project reports; mentor students; collaborate with university and national-laboratory partners.

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