Group
Members, visitors, and alumni of the Meng seismology group at UCLA. Prospective students and postdocs interested in earthquake physics are welcome to get in touch.
Graduate Students
- Yang Ma PhD student, UCLA EPSS
- Yifan Sun PhD student, UCLA EPSS
Undergraduate Researchers
- Lizzie Su
- Grant Kawamoto
- Didier Monterroza
- Nayaab Singh
Visiting Scholars
- Pengfei Zuo — current
- Jinzhi Ma — former
- Stefania Tarantino — former
- Shuzhong Sheng — former
Alumni — Graduate Students
- Saeed Mohanna PhD 2026 · UCLA EPSS Meng lab, UCLA · 2020–2026 Tsunami source imaging, active tectonics, and machine-learning earthquake detection; work on the 2024 Noto earthquake & the EdgePhase deep-learning phase picker. Thesis: “Advancing Tsunami Source Imaging and Illuminating Drivers of Seismicity Before and After Large Earthquakes” LinkedIn ↗
- Liuwei Xu (徐浏威) PhD 2025 · now Postdoctoral Scholar, Géoazur, France Meng lab, UCLA · 2020–2025 Source imaging of large earthquakes — supershear ruptures, fault asperities, back-projection (2024 Noto, 2023 Türkiye, 2025 Mandalay). Thesis: “Tracking the Rupture Nucleation, Propagation, and Fault Interaction During Large Earthquakes” Homepage ↗Scholar ↗
- Yuqing Xie PhD 2022 · now Postdoctoral Scholar, Géoazur, France Meng lab, UCLA · 2016–2022 Earthquake & tsunami source imaging from seismic and tsunami waves; multi-array tsunami warning. Thesis: “Hazard mitigation and earthquake physics investigation with local array back-projection, tsunami source inversion and rupture simulation”
- Ailin Zhang PhD 2019 · now Faculty, UM-SJTU Joint Institute Meng lab, UCLA · 2014–2019 Thesis: “Theories and Applications of Enhanced Earthquake Back-projection Imaging”
- Han Bao PhD 2022 · now Consultant, McKinsey & Company Meng lab, UCLA · 2017–2022 Led the 2018 Mw 7.5 Palu supershear-rupture study (Nature Geoscience) and the global supershear census. Thesis: “Seeking Supershear Earthquakes”
- Tian Feng PhD 2022 · now Data Scientist, Capital One Meng lab, UCLA · 2016–2022 Deep learning for seismology — graph/transformer earthquake monitoring, back-projection, matched-filter detection. Thesis: “Navigating Microseismicity Characterization with Backprojection, Matched-filter, and Deep Learning” Homepage ↗LinkedIn ↗
Alumni — Postdoctoral Scholars
- Tong Zhou now Faculty, Institute of Energy, Peking University Postdoc · Meng lab, UCLA · 2020–2021 Seismic waveform inversion and imaging, tsunami source characterization, Earth structure. Homepage ↗Scholar ↗
- Chao An now Associate Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Postdoc · Meng lab, UCLA · 2015–2017 Tsunami generation and propagation, ocean-bottom pressure, tsunami early warning. Homepage ↗Scholar ↗
- Hui Huang now Faculty, Tongji University Postdoc · Meng lab, UCLA · 2016–2020 Earthquake sequences and slow earthquakes — rupture dynamics, foreshocks (Palu, Illapel, Ridgecrest). Homepage ↗Scholar ↗
Alumni — Undergraduate Researchers
- Masooma Hasnain
- Max Liu
- Jiayuan Han
- Huiyun Guo