earthquake source modelling

Cross-disciplinary collaboration results in groundbreaking earthquake research

1 min read · Wed, Mar 4 2015

uncertainty quantification earthquake source modelling

For KAUST research assistant Dr. Ling Zhang and Ph.D. student Hoby Razafindrakoto, a class in statistics the two took together on campus was a serendipitous event. "Hoby and Ling came to my spatial statistics class in the spring of 2013," explained Marc Genton, Professor of Statistics in the Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Science and Engineering Division. "They had to do a project for the class, and their project morphed into a collaboration that produced two papers and an online tool for uncertainty quantification in earthquake source modeling." The group effort included P. Martin Mai