Sergey B. Fomel. Professional Summary. April 12, 2016

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1 Sergey B. Fomel Professional Summary April 12, 2016 Business address: The University of Texas at Austin Bureau of Economic Geology University Station, Box X Austin, TX Telephone: (512) address: sergey.fomel@beg.utexas.edu Professional Preparation Academic Background Ph.D. Geophysics, Stanford University, Stanford, California, January 2001 Diploma in Geophysics (with Honors), Novosibirsk University, Novosibirsk, Russia, June 1990 Professional Appointments Present Position: Associate Professor; Research Associate Professor, Department of Geological Sciences; Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin (September Present). Research Scientist, Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin (January August 2007). Present Position: Research Associate, Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin (June December 2003). Postdoctoral Fellow, Computing Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, California (January June 2002). Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley, California (January May 2002). Research Assistant, Department of Geophysics, Stanford University, Stanford, California (September December 2000). Geophysical Advisor, Geco-Prakla UK, Schlumberger, Gatwick, England (March September 1998). Developed software modules for data interpolation and noise attenuation using innovative helical filtering methods. Research Scientist, Institute of Geophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia (November September 1994). Assistant Professor, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Novosibirsk University, Novosibirsk, Russia (February May 1994). Theses Application of Taylor series in seismic exploration problems Dissertations Three-dimensional seismic data regularization Continuing Education Courses Taken Mathmatics of Modeling, Migration, and Inversion with Gaussian Beams: Society of Exploration Geophysics, San Antonio, Texas, September

2 Areas of Expertise Areas of Expertise Awards Geophysical estimation Seismic data analysis Seismic imaging Wave propagation Awards and Honorary Societies Award of Merit, Best Student Poster at the 84th Annual International Meeting of SEG, October, Denver, Colorado, 2015 Best Represented Research Group award, 4th Annual GSEC Research Symposium, Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, 2015 Honorable Mention, Best Poster presented at the 84th Annual International Meeting of SEG, October, Denver, Colorado, 2015 Best Student Poster for the paper Comparison of seismic diffraction imaging techniques: plane wave destruction versus apex destruction (Decker, Klokov, and Fomel) presented by L. Decker at the 83rd Annual International Meeting of SEG Tinker Family BEG Publication Award, Bureau of Economic Geology Top 30 presentation at the 84th Annual International Meeting of SEG: Anelliptic approximations for qp velocities in orthorhombic media (Sripanich and Fomel; presented by Y. Sripanich), 2014 Top 30 presentation at the 84th Annual International Meeting of SEG: Modified anelliptic approximations for qp velocities in transversely isotropic media (Sripanich and Fomel; presented by Y. Sripanich), 2014 Top 30 presentation at the 84th Annual International Meeting of SEG: Random noise attenuation using local similarity (Chen and Fomel; presented by Y. Chen), 2014 Top 30 presentation at the 84th Annual International Meeting of SEG: Transforming prestack seismic data by Gardner continuation, 2014 Top 30 presentation at the 82nd Annual International Meeting of SEG: "Wave-equation time migration", 2013 Jackson School Outstanding Educator Award, 2012 Top 30 Presentation at the 82nd Annual International Meeting of SEG: "Seismic Data Decomposition into Spectral Components Using Regularized Nonstationary Autoregression", 2012 Best Poster Award, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 2011 Conrad Schlumberger Award, European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers, 2011 European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers, Conrad Schlumberger Award, 2011 Society of Exploration Geophysicists Best Poster Award, 2011 Top 30 presentation at the 80th SEG Annual Meeting: Local similarity with the envelope as a seismic phase detector, 2011 Top 30 presentation at the 80th SEG Annual Meeting: Seismic wave extrapolation using low-rank symbol approximation, 2011

3 Jackson Research Excellence Fellow, Jackson School of Geosciences, Fellowship from John E. "Brick" Elliott Centennial Professorship awarded by Jackson School of Geosciences, 2009 Top 30 Presentation at the 78th Annual International Meeting of SEG, "Predictive Painting of 3-D Seismic Volumes", 2009 Honorable Mention, Best Poster Paper Presented at the 2007 Annual International Meeting, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 2008 Honorable Mention, Best Poster Paper Presented at the SEG 2007 Annual Meeting for paper titled "Applications of Nonstationary Regression", 2008 Top 30 Presentation at the 77th Annual International Meeting, Society of Exploration Geophysicists: Applications of nonstationary regression, 2008 Top 30 Presentation at the 77th Annual International Meeting, Society of Exploration Geophysicists: Time-lapse image registration using the local similarity attribute, 2008 Research Fellowship, Jackson School of Geosciences, Best Poster, 2006 Annual Meeting of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 2007 Editorial Board Highlights, Inverse Problems, 2007 Loránd Eötvös Best Paper Award, European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE), for "Path-Integral Seismic Imaging," published in Geophysical Prospecting, 2007 Special Meritorious Award for Engineering Innovation from Hart's E&P for "Imaging Ultra Deep Structures Using Wave Equation Migration and Illumination" (as consultant to 3DGeo Inc.), 2007 Who's Who of Emerging Leaders, 2007 Young Scientist Fellowship, Jackson School of Geosciences, UT Austin, Top 25 Presentations at the 2005 SEG Annual International Meeting, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, "A Multistep Approach to Multicomponent Seismic Image Registration with Application to a West Texas Carbonate Reservoir Study", 2006 Top 30 Presentations at the 2006 SEG Annual International Meeting: "Local Seismic Attributes", 2006 Top 30 Presentations at the 2006 SEG Annual International Meeting: "Post-Stack Velocity Analysis by Separation and Imaging of Seismic Diffractions", 2006 Top 30 Presentations at the 2006 SEG Annual International Meeting: "Towards the Seislet Transform", 2006 Award of Merit, "Wavefield Extrapolation in Riemannian Coordinates" (Sava and Fomel) presented by Paul Sava at the 2004 SEG Annual International Meeting, 2004 Honorable Mention, Best Paper in Geophysics, "Angle-Domain Common-Image Gathers by Wavefield Continuation Methods", 2004 Top 25 Presentations at 2004 SEG Annual International Meeting: "Theory of 3-D Angle Gathers", 2004 Honorable Mention, Best Paper in Geophysics, 2003 J. Clarence Karcher Award from the Society of Exploration Geophysicists, for numerous contributions to seismology, 2001 Award of Merit, "Amplitude-Preserved Common Image Gathers by Wave-Equation Migration" (Sava, Biondi, and Fomel), presented by Paul Sava at the SEG Annual International Meeting, 2001

4 Service External Committees Participation Member, KAUST-UT Austin Academic Excellence Alliance Faculty Search and Curriculum Committees, The University of Texas at Austin, present Member, Publications Committee, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, present Chair, Translation Committee, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, present Member, Publication Policy Committee, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, present Member, Publications Committee, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, present Creator and Program Manager, - an open-source software package for geophysical data analysis, Madagascar, present Member, Translations Committee, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, present Chairman, Publications Committee, Society of Exploration Geologists,, Guest Associate Editor, Interpretation Magazine, special issue on diffraction imaging, January, Member, Distinguished Lecture Committee, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 2013 District Representative, Council, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Member, Promotion Advisory Committee, Bureau of Economic Geology, 2012 Member, Computational Geosciences Committee, Jackson School of Geosciences, 2011 Chairman, Technical Program Committee, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Guest Editor, Special Issue on Seismic Imaging, International Journal of Geophysics, District Representative, Council, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Organizer, Madagascar School on Reproducible Computational Geophysics and Hands-On Workshop, Petroleum Technology Transfer Council, 2010 Member, Strategic Council, Jackson School of Geosciences, Co-Organizer, Minisymposium on Mathematical and Computational Problems of Time-domain Seismic Imaging, SIAM Conference on Mathematical and Computational Problems in Geosciences, 2009 Co-organizer, Reconstruction, Recovery and Interpolation of Multidimensional Seismic Wave Fields Workshop, EAGE, 2009 Co-Organizer, School on Reproducible Computational Geophysics, Delft University of Technology, 2009 Organizer, Regularization Strategies in Applied Geophysical Inverse Problems Minisymposium, Conference on Applied Inverse Problems, 2009 Member, Exploration Geophysics Faculty Search Committee, Department of Geological Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Associate Editor, GEOPHYSICS, Seismic Migration and Signal Processing, Seismic Migration and Signal Processing, Co-organizer, - Texas Advanced Computing Center and Bureau of Economic Geology, Scientific Software Day, 2007 Member, Technical Program Committee, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 2007

5 Co-Organizer, - "Reproducible Research in Computational Geophysics", School and Workshop, 2006 Session Chairman, Annual International Meeting, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 2005 Developer and Program Manager, SEGTeX, an open-source LaTeX/BibTeX package for geophysical publications, Online Governing Board, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 2004 Session Chairman, Annual International Meeting, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 2004 Session Chair, Oklahoma Geological Survey Conference on Interpreting Reservoir Architecture Using Scale-Frequency Phenomena, co-sponsored by U.S. Department of Energy and National Energy Technology Laboratory, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, June, 2003 Co-organizer, minisymposium, Seismic Velocity Analysis, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Conference on Mathematical and Computational Issues in the Geosciences, 2003 Co-organizer, Workshop, Synthetic Seismograms for Processed Seismic Data and for Seismic Field Data, Society of Economic Geologists SEG Annual International Meeting, 2003 Organizer, minisymposium, Geoscience Applications of Dijkstra-Like Methods for Solving Hamilton-Jacobi Equations, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Conference on Mathmatical and Computational Issues in the Geosciences, 2003 Published Interviews Fomel, S., 2016, Seismic Interpretation: 'Computers Can't Replace Geologists' (interview with S. Fomel by David Brown): AAPG Explorer: %E2%80%98computers-can%E2%80%99t-replace-geologists%E2%80%99 Chopra, Satinder, and Fomel, S. B., 2010, "Geophysics is a hugely rewarding profession": an interview with Sergey Fomel: CSEG Reporter, v. 35, no. 1, p Proposal Review Panels Participation Reviewer of grant proposals for the Petroleum Research Fund (American Chemical Society) Reviewer of research articles in major geophysics journals (Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, Communications in Mathematical Sciences, Computers & Geosciences, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Geophysical Journal International, Geophysics, Geophysical Prospecting, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Inverse Problems, Journal of Applied Geophysics, Journal of Geophysics and Engineering, Journal of Computational Physics, Journal of Seismic Exploration, Near Surface Geophysics, Petrophysics, and Wave Motion) Teaching and Advising University Courses Taught Verification and Validation of Seismic Attributes: presented at Bureau of Economic Geology, Austin, Texas, October Mathematical Methods in Geophysics: presented at Department of Geological Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, Multidimensional Data Analysis in Geosciences Organization: presented at Department of Geological Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, GEO 391 Multidimensional data analysis in geosciences: presented to Department of Geological Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, Fall Automatic painting of 3-D seismic volumes: presented at Bureau of Economic Geology

6 Colloquium, Austin, Texas, April 4, GEO384W Seismic Imaging: presented Department of Geological Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, Fall Fast surface reconstruction from point sets: Bureau of Economic Geology research seminar, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, November 3, Estimating structural uncertainty in seismic images: presented at Bureau of Economic Geology Colloquium, Austin, Texas, October 14, GEO 391 Seismic Wavefield Imaging: presented at the Department of Geological Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, October Smooth estimates of seismic attributes: presented at Bureau of Economic Geology Colloquium, Austin, Texas, October 1, Geometrical theory of seismic imaging: presented to Department of Geological Sciences (Geology 391), The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, October Seismic imaging as an inverse problem: presented to Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering (PGE 383), The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, October Plane-wave destruction and other types of wave extrapolation: presented to The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences (Geology 391), Austin, Texas, Angle gather migration: presented at Bureau of Economic Geology Colloquium, Austin, Texas, May 14, Continuing Education Courses Taught Verification and validation of seismic attributes: presented at Stanford Exploration Project seminar, Stanford University, Stanford, California, February 27, Coordinate systems for seismic imaging and inversion: presented at TCCS Spring Sponsor Meeting, Houston, Texas, March 25, Full waveform inversion and diffraction focusing: presented at SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, Boston, Massachusetts, February 27, Time-domain seismic imaging and inversion: presented at SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, Boston, Massachusetts, February 26, Wave equations and numerical wave propagation in seismic reflection imaging: presented at KAUST, Applied Mathematics & Computational Sciences Seminar, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, February Discovering and understanding seismic reflection data patterns: presented at Texas A&M University, Petroleum Engineering Seminar, College Station, Texas, October 16, Madagascar Software Project, Short Course for Students and Young Scientists: presented at Novosibirsk State University; Institute for Petroleum Geology and Geophysics SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia, August 1, How to contribute to Madagascar and why: presented at School on Reproducible Computational Geophysics, Beijing, China, July 22, Madagascar Software Project; data processing using Madagascar and Scons: presented at School on Reproducible Computational Geophysics, Beijing, China, July 21, Shaping regularization: presented at Saudi Aramco EXPEC ARC, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, February 8, Seismic wave extrapolation using lowrank symbol approximation: presented at CGGVeritas,

7 Houston, Texas, July 22, Examples of BP-inspired research at UT Austin: presented at BP America, Wednesday Tea Seminar, Houston, Texas, March 17, Mathematical and computational problems of seismic imaging: presented at Cornell University, Scientific Computing and Numerics Seminar, Ithaca, New York, March 1, Shaping regularization and time-frequency characterization using local attributes: presented to University of Alberta, Signal Analysis and Imaging Group, Edmonton, Canada, December 10, Time-frequency characterization of seismic data using local attributes: presented at Exploration Geophysics Seminar, Austin, Texas, October 15, Discovering patterns in seismic reflection data: presented to Shell BTC, Houston, Texas, September 28, Seismic data analysis using local attributes: short course presented at Loránd Eötvös Geophysical Institute, Budapest, Hungary, July 27-28, Predictive painting of 3-D seismic volumes; Seismic data analysis with one-dimensional seislet frame: presented at StatoilHydro, Bergen, Norway, April 23, Adaptive multiple subtraction using regularized nonstationary regression: presented at StatoilHydro, Trondheim, Norway, April 22, Prestack time migration revisited: presented at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), ROSE consortium sponsor meeting, Trondheim, Norway, April 21, Velocity analysis using shaping regularization: presented at the University of Utah, UTAM consortium meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, February 5, Seismic data analysis with one-dimensional seislet frame: presented at Exploration Geophysics Seminar, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, October 23, Discovering patterns in seismic reflection data: presented to Department of Geological Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Technical Sessions, Austin, Texas, September 30, Recent advances in time-domain seismic imaging: presented to Saudi Aramco, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, June 6, Seismic imaging: presented to Saudi Aramco, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, June 1, Seismic imaging: presented at CGGVeritas, Houston, Texas, April 30, Seismic wave propagation using Fourier integration: presented at CGGVeritas, Houston, Texas, April 30, Time-lapse seismic image registration using the local similarity attribute and the "Madagascar" software package: presented to ConocoPhillips, Houston, Texas, February 18, The "Madagascar" software package: presented to Chevron ETC, San Ramon, California, February 14, Applications of local seismic attributes: presented at Shell International E&P, Houston, Texas, October 29, Applications of nonstationary regression: presented to Exploration Geophysics Seminar, Department of Geological Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, September 13, Reproducible computational experiments using the Madagascar Software Package: presented

8 to Schlumberger Cambridge Research, Cambridge, England, June 15, Discovering patterns in seismic reflection data: presented to Department of Earth Science, Rice University, Houston, Texas, April 27, Writing reproducible papers and extending RSF/Madagascar: presented at Madagascar Software School, Bureau of Economic Geology, Austin, Texas, April 20, Discovering patterns in seismic reflection data: presented to Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, April 10, Madagascar open-source software package: presented to BP, Houston, Texas, February 28, Mathematical problems of time-domain seismic imaging: presented at University of California at Irvine, Applied Mathematics Seminar, Irvine, California, January 28, The seislet transform and seislet frames: presented to Geophysical Society of Houston, Houston, Texas, January 24, Understanding seismic heterogeneity: presented at Exploration Geophysics Seminar, Austin, TX, December 7, Introducing "Madagascar," a computational platform for geophysical data processing and reproducible numerical experiments: presented at EAGE workshop Open-Source E&P Software--Putting the Pieces Together, Vienna, Austria, June 11, Multiple-arrival seismic imaging and the seislet transform: presented to Total, Houston, Texas, June 1, Seismic attributes for multicomponent data analysis: presented at EGL Sponsor Meeting, Austin, Texas, May 16, Seismic diffraction imaging: presented at M-OSRP Sponsor Meeting, Houston, Texas, May 12, Time*Velocity=Depth: presented at Exploration Geophysics Seminar, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, April 27, Time*Velocity=Depth: presented to BP, Houston, Texas, April 26, Differential azimuth moveout and reservoir-centered seismic imaging: presented to Total, Pau, France, March 9, The Seislet Transform: presented at Geophysics Seminar, Department of Geological Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, September 22, Seismic slope as a universal attribute: presented at UBC, Vancouver, Canada, July 22, Amplitude preserving migration: presented to Shell E&P, Houston, Texas, February 17, Velocity * time = depth: presented to Stanford Exploration Project, Stanford, California, January 28, Seismic slope as a universal attribute: presented at Veritas DGS, Houston, Texas, December 14, Multicomponent data registration and other projects: presented at EGL Sponsor Meeting, Austin, Texas, December 8, Oriented seismic imaging in the time domain: presented at DoGS Geophysics Research Seminar, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, October 28, Shaping regularization in geophysical estimation problems: presented to UTIG, Austin, Texas, September 17, 2004.

9 Shaping regularization oin geophysical estimation problems: presented to GXT Input/Output, Houston, Texas, September 8, Student Committee Supervision Chairman, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee, William Burnett, Department of Geological Sciences: The University of Texas at Austin, completed, 2011 Chair, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee, Xiaolei Song, The University of Texas at Austin, 2009 Chairman, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee, Vladimir Bashkardin, Department of Geological Sciences: The University of Texas at Austin, 2008 Student Committee Participation Member, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee, Engin Alkan, The University of Texas at Austin, 2010 Member, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee, John Hooker, The University of Texas at Austin, 2010 Co-Advisor, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee, S. Hesam Kazameini, Department of Earth Sciences: Uppsala University, 2009 Member, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee, Chaoshun Hu, Department of Geological Sciences: The University of Texas at Austin, 2008 Member, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee, Robert Mallan, Department of Petroleum Systems and Engineering: The University of Texas at Austin, 2008 Member, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee, Chaoshun Hu, Department of Geological Sciences: The University of Texas at Austin, 2007 Member, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee, Erin Eastwood, Department of Geological Sciences: The University of Texas at Austin, 2007 Member, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee, Peijia Liu, Department of Mathematics: The University of Texas at Austin, 2007 Member, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee, Tatyana Torskaya, Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering: The University of Texas at Austin, 2007 Member, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee, Cem Kilic, Characterization and quantification of middle Miocene reservoirs of Starfak and Tiger Shoal fields, offshore Louisiana, using genetic sequence stratigraphy and neural networks: Department of Geological Sciences: The University of Texas at Austin, 2004 Member, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee, Chandan Kumar, Parameter inversion for seismic anisotropy: Department of Geological Sciences: The University of Texas at Austin, 2004 Member, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee, Chaoshun Hu, Department of Petroleum Engineering: The University of Texas at Austin, 2004 Presentations Invited Presentations Slopes, Shifts, and Scattered Data Interpolation: presented to Total, Houston, Texas, March 3, Texas Consortium for Computational Seismology: presented to ExxonMobil, Houston, Texas, March 3, Seismic Data Analysis: Measuring Shifts and Slopes: presented at Computational Energy Day, Austin, Texas, February 15, Slopes, Shifts,and Scattered Data Interpolation: presented to Chevron, Houston, Texas, January 21, 2016.

10 Slopes, Shifts, and Scattered Data Interpolation: presented to Statoil, Houston, Texas, January 14, Weighted-Least-Squares Based Lowrank Finite Differences for Seismic Wave Extrapolation: presented to ConocoPhillips, Houston, Texas, January 14, Verification and validation of seismic attributes: presented to Permian Basin Geophysical Society, Midland, TX, November 11, Scattered data interpolation: presented at Conference on Numerical and Multiscale Issues for Partial and Integral Differential Equations, Austin, TX, October 15, Advances in time-domain seismic imaging: presented to Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development (RIPED), Beijing, China, August 13, Advances in time-domain seismic imaging: presented to China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao, China, August 9, Time-to-Depth Conversion in Seismic Imaging as an Inverse Problem: presented at Conference on Mathematical and Computational Challenges of Wave Propagation and Inverse Problems, East Lansing, MI, April 11, Discovering Patterns in Seismic Reflection Data: presented to Department of Mathematics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, February 26, Discovering patterns in seismic reflection data: presented to GMIG Pure and Applied Mathematics Seminar, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, February 12, Local seismic attributes: presented to Department of Geophysics, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, February 2, Texas Consortium for Computational Seismology: presented to Department of Geophysics, Jilin University, Changchun, China, January 14, Sparse decomposition of seismic data: regularized nonstationary regression: presented at International Workshop on Mathematical Geophysics, Harbin, China, January 9, Time-frequency analysis using regularized regression: presented to Society of Exploration Geophysicists, presented at workshop, Denver, CO, November 30, Recent advances in time-domain seismic imaging: presented to Society of Exploration Geophysicists, presented at special session, Denver, CO, November 27, Accurate approximations for phase and group velocities of qp waves in TI and orthorhombic media: presented at the 16th International Workshop on Seismic Anisotropy, Natal, Brazil, November 17, Presentations Implementing reproducible research using the Madagascar software package: presented at AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 17, Recent advances in time-domain diffraction imaging: presented at SEG Workshop, New Orleans, LA, October 23, Weighted least square based lowrank finite difference for seismic-wave extrapolation: presented at SEG Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, October 19, Mathematics of time-domain seismic imaging: presented at International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM), Beijing, China, August 14, Sparse decomposition of seismic data using regularized non-stationary regression: presented at International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM), Beijing, China, August 11, 2015.

11 Advances in seismic diffraction imaging: presented at International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM), Beijing, China, August 10, Contributing to Madagascar: presented at Madagascar School for Advanced Users, Qingdao, China, August 8, Madagascar principles: presented at Madagascar School for Advanced Users, Qingdao, China, August 8, Madagascar open- source software package: interface to reproducible research: presented at SIAM Conference on Mathematical and Computational Issues in the Geosciences, Stanford, CA, June 30, Double sparsity dictionary for seismic noise attenuation: presented at EAGE Annual Meeting, Madrid, Spain, June 4, Random noise attenuation using local signal and noise orthogonalization: presented at EAGE Annual Meeting, Madrid, Spain, June 4, Recent advances in time-domain seismic imaging: presented at TCCS Ninth Bi-Annual Research Meeting, Houston, TX, March 23, Introduction to Madagascar; Developing workflows using SCons; Contributing to Madagascar: presented at Madagascar School, Harbin, China, January 8, Gardner continuation: presented to Society of Exploration Geophysicists, presented at Annual International Meeting, Denver, CO, November 28, Review of local attributes: presented to TCCS Eighth Bi-Annual Research Meeting, Austin, TX, November 3, Four methods of data regularization: presented at TCCS sponsor meeting, Houston, Texas, March 21, Geometry of Waves and Oriented Velocity Continuation: presented at TCCS Fall Sponsor Meeting, Austin, Texas, September 30, "Madagascar" fundamentals; Contributing to "Madagascar": presented at Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Workshop titled "Madagascar (Open Source Processing)", Melbourne, Australia, August Shaping Regularization in Seismic Inversion: presented at Applied Inverse Problems conference, Padua, South Korea, July Shaping regularization in seismic inversion: presented at Applied Inverse Problems conference, Daejeon, South Korea, July Reproducibility as a community effort: lessons from the Madagascar Project: presented at ICERM Workshop, Reproducibility in Computational and Experimental Mathematics, Providence, Rhode Island, December 13, Diffractions and velocity analysis: presented at SEG Workshop Seismic Diffraction Methods for Fault and Fracture Detection, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 9, Migration semblance: presented at SEG/EAGE Summer Research Workshop, Velocity Model Building in Complex Geology, Charleston, South Carolina, August 17, Contributing to Madagascar: presented at Madagascar School and Workshop on Reproducible Computational Geophysics, Austin, Texas, July 21, Madagascar Open-Source Software Project: presented at Madagascar School and Workshop on Reproducible Computational Geophysics, Austin, Texas, July 20, Python interface to Madagascar: presented at Scientific Computing with Python Conference, Austin, Texas, July 19, 2012.

12 Reproducible research--lessons from the Madagascar project: presented to National Academies Committee on Responsible Science, Stanford, California, July 9, Multipathing problem in seismic imaging and a numerical solution of escape equations: presented at SIAM Conference on Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures, Seattle, Washington, June 13, Madagascar open-source project--six years later: presented at EAGE Workshop Open-Source E&P Software--Six Years Later, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 8, Velocity continuation: workshop presented at SIAM Imaging Science Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 21, Seismic attributes for detecting natural fractures in unconventional reservoirs: presented at BP Geophysics Unconventional Gas Community "Lunch and Learn", Houston, Texas, May 10, Wave equations and numerical wave propagation in seismic reflection imaging: presented at Cornell University, CAM Colloquium, Ithaca, New York, April 20, Multiazimuth seismic diffraction imaging for fracture characterization in low-permeability gas formations: workshop presented at RPSEA Unconventional Gas Conference, Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, April 17, Multiazimuth seismic diffraction imaging for fracture characterization in low-permeability gas formations: presented at FRAC IA Sponsor Meeting, Santa Barbara, California, November 9, Shaping Regularization: presented at Geophysical Conference in Memory of S.V. Goldin, Novosibirsk, Russia, August 2, Geometry of geophysics: coordinate systems of seismic imaging: presented at BGP, Zhuozhou, China, July 26, Texas Consortium for Computational Seismology: presented at SR2020, Brea, California, June 23, Local similarity attribute and seismic image registration: presented at Pacific Coast Section of SEG, Bakersfield, California, June 22, Madagascar Open-Source Project: presented at PTTC Workshop Open Software Tools for Reproducible Computational Geophysics, Houston, Texas, June 17, Advances in seismic imaging and the role of university research: presented at SPE R&D Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 8, Practical implementation of reproducible research in the Madagascar Software Project: presented at Interface 2011: Statistical, Machine Learning, and Visualization Algorithms, Cary, North Carolina, June 1, Seismic wave extrapolation in isotropic and anisotropic media using lowrank symbol approximation: presented at EAGE Workshop "New Numerical Methods for Geophysical Imaging", Vienna, Austria, May 23, Seislet transform and seislet frame: tools for compressive representation of seismic data: presented at EAGE Workshop "New Representations of Seismic Data--Aiming at Increased Information Density at Less Cost", Vienna, Austria, May 22, Reservoir monitoring using measures of local similarity for seismic image registration: presented at Rice University, Department of Earth Science, Houston, Texas, May 17, Reproducible research: lessons from the Madagascar Project: presented at 5th Annual Scientific Software Days, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, May 12, 2011.

13 Reproducible research: lessons from the Madagascar Project: presented at 5th Annual Scientific Software Days, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, May 12, Plane waves, nonstationarity, and reproducible research: presented at GSH-SEG Spring Symposium Honoring Jon Claerbout, "Imaging the Reservoir", Houston, Texas, April 7, Plane waves, non-stationarity, and reproducible research: presented at GSH-SEG Spring Symposium Honoring Jon Claerbout "Imaging the Reservoir", Houston, Texas, April 7, Seismic fracture detection: presented at ExxonMobil Intern Day, Austin, Texas, April 1, Shaping regularization in geophysical inverse problems: presented at SIAM Conference on Mathematical & Computational Issues in the Geosciences, Long Beach, California, March 24, Building a reproducible research community: experience of the Madagascar Open-Source Project: presented at SIAM Conference on Mathematical & Computational Issues in the Geosciences, Long Beach, California, March 23, Shaping regularization: presented to Texas Consortium for Computational Seismology, Houston, Texas, March 18, Reproducible research, lessons from the Madagascar Project: presented at SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, Reno, Nevada, March 3, Full waveform inversion using diffraction waves: presented at SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, Reno, Nevada, February 28, Reproducible research: lessons from the Madagascar Software Project: presented at KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, February 6, Oriented seismic migration in time and depth: presented at the workshop Seismics: Current Status and Future Directions, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, February 1, Extracting seismic data patterns using predictive painting: presented at 30th Annual GCSSEPM Foundation Bob F. Perkins Research Conference "Seismic Imaging of Depositional and Geomorphic Systems", Houston, Texas, December 12, Introduction to Madagascar: presented at Madagascar School on Reproducible Computational Geophysics, Houston, Texas, July 23, Reproducible research in practice: Python as interface language in the Madagascar software package: presented at Python in Scientific Computing Conference, Austin, Texas, July 1, Reproducible Computational Geophysics: Archiving Computational Experiments in the Madagascar Project: NSF Workshop on Archiving Experiments to Raise Scientific Standards, Salt Lake City, Utah, May 25, Time-domain seismic imaging using beams: presented at Geophysical Society of Houston, Signal Processing Meeting, Houston, Texas, March 24, Predictive painting of 3D seismic volumes: presented to Marathon Oil, Houston, Texas, February 2, Predictive painting of 3-D seismic volumes: presented to Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Lunchbox Geophysics, Calgary, Canada, December 8, Discovering patterns in seismic reflection data: presented to the Permian Basin Geophysical Society, Midland, Texas, November 11, Volumetric surface extraction by predictive painting: presented at SEG Workshop "What's new in seismic interpretation?", Houston, Texas, October 29, Shaping regularization: presented at the Applied Inverse Problems Conference, Vienna, Austria,

14 July 24, Discovering patterns in seismic reflection data: presented to ConocoPhillips, Houston, Texas, July 15, Predictive painting of 3-D seismic volumes: presented to Bay Area Geophysical Society, San Ramon, California, July 8, Discovering patterns in seismic reflection data: BEG Centennial Distinguished Lecture Seminar on Gulf of Mexico Research presented to, Houston, Texas, June 23, Review of recent advances in time-domain seismic imaging: presented at the SIAM Conference on Mathematical & Computational Issues in the Geosciences, Leipzig, Germany, June 16, Reproducible research, seismic attributes, and shaping regularization: presented at the SIAM Conference on Mathematical & Computational Issues in the Geosciences, Leipzig, Germany, June 15, Reproducible computations using Madagascar software package: School on Reproducible Computational Geophysics, Delft, Netherlands, June 12, Four methods of data regularization: presented at the EAGE Workshop, Reconstruction, Recovery and Interpolation of Multidimensional Seismic Wave Fields, Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 8, Time-domain seismic imaging using beams: presented at the EAGE Workshop, Locally Coherent Events--A New Perspective for Seismic Imaging, Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 7, Adaptive multiple subtraction using regularized nonstationary regression: presented at SEG Workshop "Adaptive Cancellation of Noise", Las Vegas, Nevada, November 14, 208. Multiscale Analysis of Seismic Data Using the Seislet Transform: presented at the School and Workshop on Multiscale Modeling and Analysis, Austin, Texas, August 4, Seislet transform and seislet frames for multiscale seismic data analysis: presented at SEG D&P Forum, The Roles of Scaling and Uncertainty in Reservoir Characterization, Austin, Texas, July 28, Mathematical problems of time-domain seismic imaging: presented at SIAM Imaging Science Conference, San Diego, California, July 8, Reproducible computational experiments using Madagascar software package: presented at Scientific Software Days, Austin, Texas, May 15, Seismic time-domain imaging using beams: presented at Spring Symposium, Geophysical Society of Houston, Houston, Texas, May 1, Extending high-frequency wave asymptotics to low frequencies: presented at AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 12, Time-domain seismic imaging using Gaussian beams: presented in Gaussian Beams with Application to Seismology Workshop, Austin, Texas, November Fracture detection using seismic diffraction imaging: presented at FRAC IA sponsor meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, October 15, Reproducible computational experiments using the Madagascar Software Package: presented at Conference on Applied Inverse Problems, Vancouver, Canada, June 29, The seislet transform and seislet frames: presented at EAGE Workshop, "Curvelets, Contourlets, Seislets...in Seismic Data Processing--Where Are We and Where Are We Going?", London, England, June 11, Imaging waves using image rays: presented at University of California at Santa Cruz, WTOPI

15 Consortium Meeting and Symposium "Imaging the Future: Demands and Possibilities", Santa Cruz, California, May 30, Reproducible computational experiments using Scons: presented at International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Honolulu, Hawaii, April 18, "Madagascar" software package and the technology of reproducible computational experiments: presented on Scientific Software Day, Austin, Texas, April 2, The Madagascar software package and the technology of reproducible computational experiments: presented at Scientific Software Day, Austin, Texas, April 2, Wave equation imaging condition: presented to SIAM Geosciences, Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 21, Wave-equation imaging condition: presented to SIAM Geosciences, Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 21, Semblance and other seismic similarity attributes: presented at the Spring Symposium, Geophysical Society of Houston and Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Houston, Texas, March 8, Adding programs to "Madagascar": presented as school and workshop, "Reproducible Research in Computational Geophysics", Vancouver, Canada, August 31, "Madagascar" installation and compilation: presented as school and workshop, "Reproducible Research in Computational Geophysics", Vancouver, Canada, August 30, "Madagascar" LaTeX and Web tools: presented as school and workshop, "Reproducible Research in Computational Geophysics", Vancouver, Canada, August 30, Introducing "Madagascar," a computational platform for geophysical data processing and reproducible numerical experiments: presented at EAGE Workshop, Open-Source E&P Software--Putting the Pieces Together, Vienna, Austria, June 11, Wavefield continuation: presented at Institute for Geophysics, Novosibirsk, Russia, February 2, Seismic slope as a universal attribute: presented at SEG Forum, Mathematical Problems of Seismic Imaging and Inversion, Novosibirsk, Russia, January 26, Estimating structural uncertainty of seismic images using velocity continuation: presented at SEG Workshop, Net to Gross: Its Estimation and Reliability, Houston, Texas, November 10, Wave-equation angle-domain imaging for multicomponent seismic data: presented at EAGE/SEG Research Workshop, Multicomponent Seismic--Past, Present, and Future, Pau, France France, September 5, Estimating seismic attenuation by local frequency analysis: workshop presented at SEG Development & Production Forum, Austin, Texas, May 17, Local slope as a universal seismic attribute: presented to Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, February 24, Multicomponent seismic data registration: presented as Workshop on Imaging Super-Deep Geology with Multicomponent Seismic Technology, Houston, Texas, September 22, Multicomponent data registration: presented to WesternGeco, Houston, Texas, July 22, Shaping regularization in geophysical estimation problems: presented at SEP Sponsor Meeting, Pacific Grove, California, May 20, D angle gathers in wave equation migration: presented at Exploration Geophysics Seminar,

16 The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, May 6, D angle gathers: presented at SEP seminar, Stanford University, Stanford, California, April 28, Wave-equation imaging: problems and solutions: presented to ExxonMobil URC, Houston, Texas, March 23, Fast phase-space computation of multiple arrivals: presented to Paradigm Geophysical, Herzliya, Israel, February 29, Differential azimuth moveout for 3-D seismic data regularization: presented to TOTAL, Pau, France, February 19, Angle-domain seismic imaging and the oriented wave equation: presented to OPERA, University of Pau, Pau, France, February 17, Wave-equation imaging: problems and solutions: presented at TRIP seminar, Rice University, Houston, Texas, December 12, Angle-domain seismic imaging and the oriented wave equation: presented to PGS, Houston, Texas, December 11, Seismic fracture detection: presented at AAPG Fractured Reservoir Characterization and Modeling School, Austin, Texas, November 12, Multicomponent seismic data registration by least squares: presented at 73rd Annual International Meeting, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Dallas, Texas, October 31, Angle-domain seismic imaging and the oriented wave equation: presented at 73rd Annual International Meeting, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Dallas, Texas, October 29, Differential azimuth moveout: presented at 73rd Annual International Meeting, Society of Exloration Geophysicists, Dallas, Texas, October 29, Multicomponent seismic data registration by least squares: presented at EGL Sponsor Meeting, Dallas, Texas, October 29, Multicomponent data registration and the oriented wave equation: presented at Exploration Geophysics Seminar, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, October 24, Multicomponent registration of frequency-dependent data: presented at Conference on Interpreting Reservoir Architecture Using Scale-Frequency Phenomena, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, June 19, Multicomponent seismic data registration for subsurface characterization in the shallow Gulf of Mexico: presented at Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, TX, May 5, Angle-domain seismic imaging and the oriented wave equation: presented at GXT and BP seminars, Houston, TX, May Multicomponent seismic data registration by least squares: presented at Exploration Geophysics Laboratory Sponsor Meeting, Bureau of Economic Geology, Austin, TX, March 29, Seismic elastic modeling: presented at Exploration Geophysics Laboratory Sponsor Meeting, Bureau of Economic Geology, Austin, TX, March 29, Rays,fronts, and waves: traveltimes in seismic imaging: presented at SIAM Conference on Mathematical and Computational Issues in the Geosciences, Austin, TX, March 19, Plane wave destruction: a tool for seismic data analysis and attribute extraction: presented at EDGER Technical Symposium, Department of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, January 27, Anelliptic approximations in VTI media: presented at Exploration Geophysics Research

17 Seminar, Jackson School, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, January 16, Regular noise attenuation with plane-wave destruction filters: presented at the XI Venezuelan Geophysical Congress, Caracas, Venezuela, November Fast phase-space computation of multiple arrivals: presented at University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, May 3, Fast-phase space computation of multiple arrivals: presented at Bay Area Scientific Computing Day 2002, Pleasanton, California, March 2, Fast computation of multiple arrivals and their use in seismic imaging: presented at BP seminar, Houston, Texas, Fast computation of multiple arrivals and their use in seismic imaging: presented at WesternGeco seminar, Houston, Texas, Fast multiple-arrival traveltime computation for seismic imaging: presented at The University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics Seminar, Austin, Texas, Fast phase-space computation of multiple arrivals: presented at the SIAM Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Rays, fronts, and waves: traveltimes in seismic imaging: presented at the Mathematical Geophysics Summer School, Stanford, California, Plane wave destruction: presented to The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, March 1, Plane-wave destruction filters: presented to 4th Wave Imaging, Laguna Beach, California, July 28, Migration velocity analysis: presented to PGS, Houston, Texas, December 6, Migration velocity analysis by velocity continuation: presented to Western Geophysical, Houston, Texas, January 15, Migration velocity analysis by velocity continuation: presented to Chevron, La Habra, California, December 8, Helix transform and recursive filter preconditioning: presented to Schlumberger, Cambridge, UK, August 25, Velocity continuation: presented to ARCO, Dallas, Texas, January 5, Helix transform and recursive filter preconditioning: presented to Chevron, La Habra, California, November 25, Gardner continuation: presented at EAGE Workshop: Multi-parameter Stacking and Processing: Is It Worth the Extra Effort?, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June Wave equations and numerical wave propagation in seismic reflection imaging: presented at Mathematics colloquium, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, June Time-frequency decompositions in seismic data analysis: presented at International Conference on Computational Harmonic Analysis, Nashville, Tennessee, May Activities of a Professional Nature Professional Societies American Geophysical Union European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE) Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)

18 Society of Exploration Geophysicists Activities of a Professional Nature Publications Co-organizer of EAGE Workshop on Migration Velocity Analysis in Anisotropic Media, 2010 Co-organizer, Minisymposium on Gaussian Beams in Seismology, SIAM Conference on Mathematical & Computational Issues in the Geosciences, March 2011 Co-organizer, School on Reproducible Computational Geophysics, Beijing, China, July 2011 Co-organizer, special session on Advances in Seismic Data Analysis Methods at the AGU Joint Assembly "Meeting of the Americas," 2010 Guest Associate Editor, special issue of Geophysics on Seismic Data Sampling, 2010 Organizer, Madagascar working workshop Session Chair, Annual Meeting of the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers, May 2011 Session Chair, Annual Meeting of the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers, May 2011 Session Chairman, Annual International Meeting, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, October Peer Reviewed Journal Articles Chen, Y., Ma, J., and Fomel, S., 2016, Double-sparsity dictionary for seismic noise attenuation: Geophysics, v. 81, no. 2, p. V17-V30, Stovas, A., and Fomel, S., 2016, Mapping of moveout attributes using local slopes: Geophysical Prospecting, v. 64, no. 1, p , Sun, J., Fomel, S., and Ying, L., 2016, Low-rank one-step wave extrapolation for reverse time migration: Geophysics, v. 81, no. 1, p. S39-S54, Xue, Z., Chen, Y., Fomel, S., and Sun, J., 2016, Seismic imaging of incomplete data and simultaneous-source data using least-squares reverse time migration with shaping regularization: Geophysics, v. 81, no. 1, p. S11-S20, Alkhalifah, T., Fomel, S., and Wu, Z., 2015, Source-receiver two-way wave extrapolation for prestack exploding-reflector modelling and migration: Geophysical Prospecting, v. 63, no. 1, p , Burnett, W., Klokov, A., Fomel, S., Bansal, R., Liu, E., and Jenkinson, T., 2015, Seismic diffraction interpretation at Piceance Creek: Interpretation, v. 3, no. 1, p. SF1-SF14, Chen, Y., and Fomel, S., 2015, Random noise attenuation using local signal-and-noise orthogonalization: Geophysics, v. 80, no. 6, p. WD1-WD9, Decker, L., Janson, X., and Fomel, S., 2015, Carbonate reservoir characterization using seismic diffraction imaging: Interpretation, v. 3, no. 1, p. SF21-SF30, Fomel, S., 2015, Reproducible research as a community effort: lessons from the Madagascar project: Computing in Science and Engineering, v. 17, no. 1, p , Hu, J., Fomel, S., and Ying, L., 2015, A fast algorithm for 3D azimuthally anisotropic velocity scan: Geophysical Prospecting, v. 63, no. 2, p ,