Biography
Dr. Elita Li joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the National University of Singapore as an assistant professor in 2016. Before coming to Singapore, Dr. Li did her postdoctoral research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, holding a joint position in the Earth Resources Laboratory and the Department of Mathematics. Dr. Li received her Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Geophysics from Stanford University in 2014 and 2010, respectively. She obtained her B.S. degree (Highest Honors) in Information and Computational Science from China University of Petroleum, Beijing in 2008.
Dr Li’s research interests lie in the interdisciplinary boundaries among geophysical inspections, geological investigations, rock physics experimentations, and mathematical inverse problems. Her research interests include, but not limited to, seismic wave simulation, seismic inversion for structural imaging, subsurface characterization with deterministic and stochastic methods, data integration with multi-physical data, seismic monitoring for reservoir and civil purposes, and digital signal and image processing. Her work involves theoretical derivations, numerical simulations and field applications, all tied together for the purpose of integrated underground characterization.
For more information on her research, see here.
Career History
- Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, National University of Singapore (Aug 2016-present)
- Research Aliate in Department of Mathematics and Earth Resources Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Aug 2016-present)
- Postdoctoral Associate in Mathematics and Geophysics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Aug 2014 – July 2016)
Qualifications
- Ph.D., Geophysics, Stanford University, 2014
- M.S., Geophysics, Stanford University, 2010
- B.S., Information and Computational Science, China University of Petroleum, 2008
Honours & Awards
- Centennial Teaching Assistant Award, 2012, Stanford University
- Best Oral Presentation Award, SUM/SEG Student Conference, 2012, Beijing, China
- The Robert G. Kirby Fellowship, 2008, Stanford University
- Michael L. Haider Fellowship in Earth Sciences, 2008, Stanford University
- Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis, 2008, China
- Mathematical Contest in Modeling, 2007, Honorable Mention, US
- Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling, 2006, Second Prize, China
- 22nd National Physics Championship, 2005, Third Prize, China
- First Prize Scholarship for Undergraduate Students, 2004 – 2008, China
Professional Activities
- Reviewer (Journals) – Geophysics, Geophysical Journal International.
- SEG Translation Committee – Chairman since 2014.
Research Interests
- Computational geophysics: Seismic imaging and model building as an inverse problem at reservoir and regional scales
- Integrated model building: Integration of data across di erent scales, measurements and disciplines; Joint inversion to build consistent models
- Inversion with uncertainty quantification: Uncertainty quantification for inversion results under statistical frameworks
Selected Recent Publications
- Yunyue Li, Biondo Biondi, Robert Clapp and Dave Nichols, “Integrated VTI model building with seismic, geological and rock physics data: Part I – Theory and synthetic examples”, to appear in Geophysics, 2016.
- Yunyue Li, Biondo Biondi, Gary Mavko and Dave Nichols, “Integrated VTI model building with seismic, geological and rock physics data: Part II – Gulf of Mexico field examples”, to appear in Geophysics, 2016.
- Yunyue Li and Laurent Demanet, “Full waveform inversion with extrapolated low frequency data”, to appear in Geophysics, 2016.
- Yunyue Li, Mandy Wong and Robert Clapp, “Equivalent accuracy at a fraction of the cost: Overcoming temporal dispersion”, to appear in Geophysics, 2016.
- Yunyue Li, Biondo Biondi, Dave Nichols, and Robert Clapp, “Toward a closed loop from seismic imaging to earth-model building”, The Leading Edge, 35, 2016.
- Yunyue Li and Laurent Demanet, “Phase and amplitude tracking for seismic event separation”, Geophysics, 80, 2015.
- Yunyue Li, Yi Shen and Peter Kang, “Integration of seismic and fluid-flow data: a two-way road linked by rock physics”, in 77th EAGE Conference & Exhibition, 2015.
- Yunyue Li, Biondo Biondi, Robert Clapp and Dave Nichols, “Wave equation migration velocity analysis for VTI models”, Geophysics, 79, 2014.
- Rene-Edouard Plessix and Yunyue Li, “Waveform acoustic impedance inversion with spectral shaping”, Geophysical Journal International, 2013.
- Yunyue Li, Yang Zhang and Jon Claerbout, “Hyperbolic estimation of sparse models from erratic data”, Geophysics, 77, 2012.