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General Information
| Full Name | Rhys Hawkins |
| Languages | English |
Education
- 2018
PhD (Geophysics)
Australian National University
- 2001
MPhil (Computer Science)
Australian National University
- 1998
Bachelor of Engineering (Honours)
Australian National University
- 1996
Bachelor of Informational Technology (Software Engineering)
Australian National University
Experience
- 2022 -
Jubilee Joint Fellow
School of Computing/Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University
- 2019 - 2022
Post-doctoral Researcher
Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
- 2018 - 2019
Post-doctoral Researcher
Ecole Normale Superieure/CNRS, Lyon, France
- 2006 - 2014
Visualization/HPC Programmer
NCI Supercomputer Facility
- 2003 - 2006
Research Programmer
Department of Computer Science, Australian National University
- 2001 - 2003
Research Programmer
CSIRO CMIS Virtual Environments Lab
Open Source Projects
- 2019
- 2019
AttenuationVoronoi
- Trans-dimensional Voronoi Cell inversion of Inner Core Attenuation code used in Trans-dimensional Bayesian attenuation tomography of the upper inner core .
- 2018
GeneralVoronoiS2
- Trans-dimensional Voronoi Cell Inversion on the Surface of a Sphere used in the paper Lowermost mantle shear-velocity structure from hierarchical trans-dimensional Bayesian tomography
- 2018
TDTWavetomo2D
- Trans-dimensional Tree with Wavelet Parameterisation Inversion Code used in two studies in Indonesia and the southern Zagros region
- 2018
TransTessellate2D
- General Trans-dimensional Inversion with alternative parameterisations presented in the paper Trans-dimensional surface reconstruction with different classes of parameterization
- 2018
TDTWave2D
- General Trans-dimensional Tree inversion code which is described in the paper Geophysical imaging using trans-dimensional trees
- 2018
pywave2d
- General Trans-dimensional Tree inversion code with python interface.
- 2018
traveltime2d
- Travel time calculations in 2D with Fast Marching.
- 2018
TDTbase
- Utility libraries for Trans-dimensional Tree inversion codes.
Honors and Awards
- 2022
- Jubillee Joint Fellowship, Australian National University
- 2017
- ASEG ACT Student Scholarship
- 2015
- Student Author Award, Geophysical Journal International
- 2014
- Outstanding Student Presenation Award, AGU Fall Meeting 2014
Academic Interests
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Numerical Simulation
- Seismic wave propagation through the Earth
- Numerical methods, e.g. FEM, DG and their applications
- Associated High performance computing techniques
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Applications of Approximation Methods
- Model order reduction of high fidelity simulations
- Machine Learning approaches to approximating PDEs
- In particular the use of approximation methods in rapid inference problems such as monitoring
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Geophysical Inference
- Novel applications in the Earth Sciences
- Bayesian approaches with adaptive parameterizations
- Variational Bayes, Gaussian Process models and ML techniques for PPD approximation