Curriculum Vitae

Work Experience

Since 2024.09 Postdoctoral Researcher - Caltech

2023.09 - 2023.12 Course Instructor - University of Toronto

Education

2018.09 - 2024.07 PhD in Earth Sciences - University of Toronto

Supervisor: Prof. Qinya Liu

Thesis: Full-waveform seismic tomography using earthquake and ambient noise data: with application to the Alaskan lithosphere

Research interests: • Full-waveform seismic imaging, inverse problems

• Numerical modelling of seismic waves, high-performance computing

2014.09 - 2018.01 Master of Science in Geophysics - Peking University

Supervisor: Prof. Haiming Zhang

Thesis: A theoretical study on the noise cross-correlation method in seismology (in Chinese)

Research interests: • Mathematical description of seismic waves and cross-correlations of seismic noise

• Numerical modelling of seismic waves and earthquake rupture processes

2010.09 - 2014.07 Bachelor of Science in Geophysics - Peking University

Thesis: A Synthetic Seismograms for Finite Vertical Strike-slip Faults Using Normal-mode Summation (in Chinese)

Supervised by: Prof. Haiming Zhang

Awards

2021.09 Collett Graduate Scholarship, KEGS Foundation

2021.04 Laurence Curtis TA Award, University of Toronto

2020.09 Ellsworth Scholarship, Fawcett & Gittins Scholarship, University of Toronto

2018.04 Ontario Trillium Scholarship, Connaught International Scholarship

2016.12 Outstanding Student Paper, Chinese Geoscience Union

2011.09 National Scholarship, Ministry of Education of P. R. China

Publications

  1. Liu, T., Wang, K., Xie, Y., He, B., Lei, T., Du, N., Tong, T., Yang, Y., Rychert, C. A., Harmon, N., Grasselli, G., Liu, Q., 2024. Cube2sph: A Toolkit Enabling Flexible and Accurate Continental-scale Seismic Wave Simulations using the SPECFEM3D Package. Computers and Geosciences, 190, 105644, doi: 10.1016/j.cageo.2024.105644
  2. Wang, K., Yang, Y., Jiang, C., Wang, Y., Tong, P., Liu, T., Liu, Q., 2021. Adjoint tomography of ambient noise data and teleseismic P waves: Methodology And Applications To Central California. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 126, e2021JB021648. doi: 10.1029/2021JB021648
  3. Wu, S., Yao, J., Wei, S., Hubbard, J., Wang, Y., Htwe, Y., Thant, M., Wang, X., Wang, K., Liu, T., Liu, Q., Tong, P., 2021. New insights into the structural heterogeneity and geodynamics of the Indo-Burma subduction zone from ambient noise tomography, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 562, 116856. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2021.116856
  4. Lin, C., Monteiller, V., Wang, K., Liu, T., Tong, P. & Liu, Q., 2019. High-frequency seismic wave modelling of the deep Earth based on hybrid methods and spectral-element simulations: a conceptual study, Geophys. J. Int., 219, 1948--1969. doi: 10.1093/gji/ggz413.
  5. Liu, T. & Zhang, H., 2018. Asymptotic analysis for dispersion relations and travel times in noise cross-correlations: spherically symmetric case, Proc. R. Soc. A, 474, 20180382. doi: 10.1098/rspa.2018.0382.
  6. Liu, T. & Zhang, H., 2017. Synthetic Seismograms for Finite Vertical Strike-slip Faults Using Normal-mode Summation, Earthq. Sci., 30, 125--133. doi: 10.1007/s11589-017-0188-1.
  7. Liu, T., Feng, X. & Zhang, H., 2016. On Rayleigh wave in half-space: an asymptotic approach to study the Rayleigh function and its relation to the Rayleigh wave, Geophys. J. Int., 206, 1179--1193. doi: 10.1093/gji/ggw189.