Research Interests

Research Areas

Traveltime compression for imaging applications
Anisotropic parameter estimation using a modified eikonal
Source virtual perturbation traveltime equation
PDE's for a virtual source perturbation
The DSR PDE for the extended source and receiver domain
An acoustic wave equation for Orthohombic anisotropy
Near surface traveltime tomography using a modified eikonal
Angle gathers for anisotropic media
TTI dip direction.
Prestack phase-shift migration of separate offsets in inhomogeneous media
Reverse Time Migration (RTM)
Automatic first arrival picking
Processing of harmonically distorted sweeps
Estimating efficiency of space-time domain modeling
Frequency-domain source-independent waveformin inversion algorithm using logarithmic wavefield
source-independent time-domain waveform inversion using convolved wavefields: approach for the encoded multi-source method (new)
Time-domain waveform inversion using integral wavefield (new)
Dispersive wave analysis (new)
Inverse data space (new)
The extended imaging condition for anisotropic media (new)
Prestack exploding reflector wavefield extrapolation (new)
Prestack traveltime approximations (new)

Scientific Interest

Seismic imaging
Velocity Modeling
Anisotropic behavior of wave propagation
Seismic data acquisition & processing
Near surface modeling
Processing anisotropic data.
Residual DMO.
Prestack phase-shift migration of separate offsets.
Seismic Waveform Inversion.
Attenuation and Dispersion of seismic waves.

Department of Physical Science and Engineering 4700 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Thuwal 23955-6900 Saudi Arabia.

S.W.A.G

Opening Positions

Geophysical Softwares

KAUST

Research Areas

Scientific Interest