Contact
websitehttps://www.ig.utexas.ed u/staff/mrinal-k-sen/
emailmrinal@utexas.edu
phone (512) 471-0466
office JGB 4.220E
office 2 ROC 2.228
Mrinal K. Sen
John A. and Katherine G. Jackson Chair in Applied Seismology
Morgan J. Davis Centennial Chair in Petroleum Geology
Associate Director Institute for Geophysics
Professor Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Centers and Groups
Research Interests
Uncertainty Quantification Computational Geosciences Inverse ProblemsBiography
Mrinal K. Sen is a professor of Geophysics and holder of Jackson Chair in Applied Seismology at the Department of Geological Sciences and concurrently serves as the associate director of the Institute for Geophysics at the University of Texas at Austin. During 2013 and 2014, Mrinal served as the director of the National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad, India. He received his integrated M.Sc degree from IIT(ISM) Dhanbad and PhD from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA.
Mrinal is a specialist in seismic wave propagation, including anisotropy, inversion, and uncertainty quantification. He has extended seismic plane wave analysis methods to anisotropic media and developed novel methods for characterizing unconventional reservoirs. Mrinal has carried out rigorous error analysis of finite element and finite difference methods and developed several efficient finite difference operators for modeling and imaging. His recent research is focused on trans-dimensional MCMC for FWI, and Physics-based and Physics-assisted Machine Learning for Seismic Data Analysis.