Earthquake Early Warning Project Scientist
Berkeley Seismological Laboratory
I’m a seismologist with strong interests in the development of earthquake early warning systems and the use of MEMS sensors in seismology. I am currently working on improving earthquake detections for the ElarmS/EPIC algorithm and the ShakeAlert earthquake early warning system. As a graduate student at Stanford University, I worked with the Quake-Catcher Network (QCN) team to develop a world-wide low-cost seismic network using inexpensive MEMS accelerometers to record earthquakes.
One of my primary projects at this time is the implementation of a real-time machine learning classifier in the ShakeAlert earthquake early warning system. By adding this classifier, we may be able to drastically reduce the number of bad signals coming into our earthquake early warning system.
I also have a passion for communicating earthquake science to the public and have been interviewed by many major news networks including The Wall Street Journal, NPR, ABC, NBC, and FOX among others. Following the Ridgecrest earthquakes in 2019, I started a series of educational videos to help clarify some of the earthquake early warning basics (see above “Earthquakes 101").