Kuang He's CV

KUANG HE

Department of Physics
University of Connecticut
2152 Hillside Road U3046
Storrs, CT 06269-3046, USA

Tel: +1.860.486.4919
Fax: +1.860.486.3346
Email: he@phys.uconn.edu
Web: http://www.phys.uconn.edu/~he/

EDUCATION

May 2010 (expected)	Ph.D. in Physics, University of Connecticut (UConn), Storrs, CT
Feb 2009	M.S. in Physics, University of Connecticut (UConn), Storrs, CT
Jul 2005	B.S. in Physics, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, Anhui, China

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, Seattle, WA Volunteer Developer	Aug 2008 - present
Contributor of SAC, a widely used seismic data analysis tool.
GeoTomo LLC, Houston, TX Intern Geophysicist	May 2009 - Aug 2009
Implemented a 2D frequency-domain acoustic waveform tomography package through mixed C and Fortran programming. Land data processing (first break picking, static corrections, travel time tomography, migration). Solved binary compatibility and communication problems in parallel computing on various Linux workstations and clusters.
Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS), Houston, TX Intern Geophysicist	May 2007 - Aug 2007
Improved the efficiency of a 3D ray tracing module. Achieved performance gains up to 750% for the improved parts while ensuring backward compatibility.
University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China Volunteer Developer	Apr 2004 - Jun 2005
Contributor and maintainer of the USTC BBS daemon, the backbone software of the university's official Internet bulletin board system.
USTC Qubitstar Systems Inc., Hefei, Anhui, China Intern Developer	Mar 2005 - Apr 2005
Designed and implemented a web front-end of an embedded bookkeeping system using PHP, MySQL, C, and shell scripts.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Solid Earth Geophysics Group, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT	Sep 2005 - present
Pseudospectral and spectral finite-element forward modeling of seismic wavefields. Wave-equation redatuming on surface Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) data. Strong ground motion simulations using the pseudospectral method. Determined different textures of heterogeneity from scattered waves. Synthesized seismic coda waves using Monte-Carlo simulations based on radiative transfer theory.

PUBLICATIONS

Refereed Publications:
1. Tkalcic, H., V.F. Cormier, B.L.N. Kennett, and K. He, Anti-correlation in observed reflections from the Earth's inner and outer cores from tectonic and explosive sources, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, in press. (2009)
2. Liu, L. and K. He, Wave interferometry applied to borehole radar: virtual multi-offset reflection profiling, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 45 (8), pp. 2554-2559, doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2007.900686. (2007)
3. Liu, L., K. He, X. Xie, and J. Du, Image enhancement with wave-equation redatuming: application to GPR data collected at public transportation sites, J. Geophys. Eng., 4 (2), pp. 139-147, doi: 10.1088/1742-2132/4/2/003. (2007)
4. Fan, J., L. Pi, K. He, W. Wang, and Y. Zhang, Charge ordering melting and evidence for a metastable antiferromagnetic phase in Nd_0.5(1-x)Ca_0.5(1+x)Mn_1-xTi_xO₃, Europhys. Lett., 74 (3), pp. 506-511, doi: 10.1209/epl/i2005-10561-8. (2006)
5. Qu, Z., S. Tan, K. He, J. Xu, , and Y. Zhang, Effects of Mn doping on the properties of FeCr_2-xMn_xS₄, Appl. Phys. Lett., 87, 162504, doi: 10.1063/1.2106020. (2005)
Non-refereed Publications:
1. He, K., L. Liu, W. Wang, Y. Tan, and Q. Chen, Study of the strong ground motion scenario in the Beijing area caused by the 1679 M8 Sanhe-Pinggu earthquake, Proceedings of the 14th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (14WCEE), Beijing, China, October 12-17, Paper No. 14-0135. (2008)
2. Chen, Q., L. Liu, W. Wang, and K. He, Seismic hazard assessment with microtremor array observation and computational simulation in the metropolitan Beijing area, Proceedings of the 14th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (14WCEE), Beijing, China, October 12-17, Paper No. 03-03-0021. (2008)
3. Liu, L., X. Xie, Y. Zhao, and K. He, Integrity assessment of the shielding machine sealing with GPR in the Crossing-Yantze Highway Tunnel, Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR '2008), Birmingham, UK, June 16-19. (2008)
4. Liu, L., K. He, and L.V. Wang , Transcranial ultrasonic wave propagation simulation: skull insertion loss and recovery, Proceedings of SPIE, 6437, 64370X. (2007)
5. Liu, L., K. He, X. Xie, and J. Du, Image enhancement with wave-equation redatuming: application to GPR data collected in a highway tunnel, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR '2006), Columbus, OH, June 19-22. (2006)
Presentations:
1. He, K. and V.F. Cormier, Modeling seismic coda waves for textures of the uppermost inner core, AGU Fall Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 14-18. (Poster presentation, 2009)
2. He, K. and V.F. Cormier, Texture study of the uppermost inner core from seismic coda waves, School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China. (Invited talk, 2009)
3. Liu, L., Q. Chen, K. He, W. Wang, E. Rohrbach, and C. Qi, Vulnerability analysis of ground and structures based on microtremor measurement and scenario earthquake simulation: Applications to the Greater Beijing area, IASPEI General Assembly, January 10-16, Cape Town, South Africa. (2009)
4. He, K., J. Attanayake, V.F. Cormier, and A. Stroujkova, Texture study of the uppermost inner core from seismic coda waves, AGU Fall Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 15-19. (Poster presentation, 2008)
5. Attanayake, J., V.F. Cormier, and K. He, Modeling the inner core boundary with antipodal seismic waves, AGU Fall Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 15-19. (Poster presentation, 2008)
6. Liu, L., K. He, R. Mehl, W. Wang, and Q. Chen, Site effect assessment of earthquake ground motion based on advanced data processing of microtremor array measurements, AGU Fall Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 15-19. (2008)
7. Li, J., B. Chen, V.F. Cormier, L. Gao, D. Gubbins, K. He, and H. Yang, "Snowing" core in Earth?, AGU Fall Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 15-19. (2008)
8. He, K., A. Stroujkova, and V.F. Cormier, Texture of the uppermost inner core from the coda of PKiKP, IRIS Annual Workshop, Stevenson, WA, June 4-6. (Poster presentation, 2008)
9. Liu, L., Q. Chen, K. He, and P. Hu, Earthquake strong ground motion scenarios at the 2008 Olympic Games site Beijing based on historic records, the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics General Assembly (IUGG '2007), Perugia, Italy, July 2-13. (2007)

COMPUTER SKILLS

Programming:
- Languages: C, Fortran, Python, Perl, PHP, Bash shell scripts, Basic, Pascal
- GNU toolchain: gcc, gdb, make, autoconf, automake
- MPI parallel programming
- Common Gateway Interface (CGI) programming
Computing Systems: Matlab, Mathematica
Databases: MySQL, Sqlite
Documentation & Web Publishing: HTML/XHTML, CSS, PHP, LaTeX, Content management systems (MediaWiki, Plone+Zope), SGML, doxygen
Version Control Systems: CVS, Subversion, Git
System Administration:
- Operating Systems: Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora, CentOS, SUSE, ...), Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP/2003/Vista, MS-DOS
- File Systems: EXT2/EXT3, ReiserFS, XFS, FAT16/FAT32, NTFS
- Web Server (Apache 1.3.x/2.x, lighttpd, and Microsoft IIS), FTP Server, Mail Server (SMTP/SMTPS, POP3/POP3S, IMAP/IMAPS, squirrelmail webmail, spam & antivirus filtering), DHCP, Telnet, NTP, NFS, Samba, Proxy (SOCKS and HTTP), Rsync, LPD/CUPS, Remote desktop, VNC, NX, Cygwin, Autofs, BitTorrent, Audio streaming and broadcasting
Security: SSH, SSL/TLS, PAM, firewalls, IDS, VPN (PPTP and OpenVPN), vulnerability scanning, PGP/GnuPG
Networking: IPv4, packet sniffing, packet filtering, NAT, tunneling, web caching, transparent proxying, software load balancing, network (PXE) booting, bridging, traffic shaping
Linux Expertise: X Window System, GNOME, Xfce, software RAID, LVM, ATA over Ethernet, hard disk encryption (LUKS and TrueCrypt), disk quota, virtual machine managers (VMware, VirtualBox, User-Mode Linux, Xen, QEMU, Colinux, ...)

OTHER EXPERIENCE

Physics Department, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT Assistant Computer Administrator	Sep 2005 - present
Helped the department's system administrator with the maintenance of various Linux workstations and the deployment of a new website system. Maintained a 17-node dual-core cluster. Designed, developed, and maintained the website of various UConn geophysics groups.
Physics Department, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT Teaching Assistant	Jan 2007 - May 2007
Taught a laboratory course: General Physics.

HONORS & AWARDS

Grant to participate in the SEG/ExxonMobil Student Education Program (SEP) (2009)

Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, UConn (2009)

Grant to participate in the Cooperative Institute for Dynamic Earth Research (CIDER) Summer Program (2008)

Summer Prelim Fellowship, UConn (2007)

Grant to participate in the Earthscope/USArray Imaging Science & CIG Seismology Workshop on Computational Seismology (2006)

Grant to participate in the Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) Summer Camp (2003)

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

American Geophysical Union (AGU)	2005 - present
The Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG)	2007 - present