Hussain AlSalem is a Geophysics PhD candidate at UC Berkeley. He received his undergraduate degree in geophysics from University of Leeds and completed his Master’s studies from UC Berkeley. At UC Berkeley, he also completed two minors in the Computational and Data Science and Engineering Program and Numerical Analysis.
At UC Berkeley, he became proficient in using many programming languages and scientific tools such as Fortran, Python, Java, C, MATLAB, MPI and OpenMP computing and Petsc. He heavily used these tools for his Master’s and PhD theses at UC Berkeley.
His research interests are at the interface between geophysics and high performance computing (HPC): using and developing efficient computational-based methodology to solve complex geophysical problems such as forward modelling the wave equation and full waveform inversion. He works on parallel computation, data analysis, computational modelling, and visualisation of scientific data sets.
Current projects include adding topography, implementing adaptive meshes, and analysing different parallel preconditioners and solvers for the forward modelling of the 3D acoustic wave equation.