Curriculum Vitae
Zheng, Yingcai
yzheng@pmc.ucsc.edu
Tel: (831) 459-4554 (Office).
Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064.

PERSONAL DATA

• Gender: Male; Birth: August 16, 1981, Nei Mongol, China.

EDUCATION

• 2007 Ph.D. in seismology, University of California, Santa Cruz.
  Thesis: Imaging Upper Mantle Discontinuities and Earth's Small-scale Heterogeneities
  Advisors: Thorne Lay and Ru-shan Wu
  Other Members in PhD committee: Susan Schwartz (UCSC), Mike Fehler (LANL),and Megan Flanagan (LLNL)
• 2001, B.S. in Geophysics, Beijing University.
  Thesis: Study on upper mantle discontinuities in Izu-Bonin region
  Advisor: Shaoxian Zang

AWARDS, HONORS and ACTIVITIES

• Awarded as SPIRIT Scholar with a scholarship by ConocoPhillips 2006 summer
• CIDER program at Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara, 2006
• Waters Award 2005 UCSC for outstanding PhD thesis proposal
• University of California, Regents Fellowship 2003

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP

• American Geophysical Union (from 2002-)
• Society of Exploration Geophysics (2003-2004) student member
• Society of Exploration Geophysics (from October, 2006-) student member, associate member

WORK EXPERIENCES

• Jan 2008-, Cosultant on seismic imaging for ConocoPhillips
• 7/1/2007 -, Postdoc Scholar at UCSC
• 6/5-9/15, 2006, Intern at ConocoPhillips working on seismic imaging, Mentor: Chuck Mosher and Richard Day
• 2002, June-2007, Research Assistant, UCSC
• 2002, June-2006, Teaching Assistant, UCSC
• 2001- June, 2002, Research Assistant, CERI, Memphis, TN

PUBLICATIONS IN REFERRED JOURNALS AND BOOKS

1. Zheng, Y., T. Lay, M. P. Flanagan, Imaging uppermantle discontinuties in Java using 3D Kirchhoff migration with illumination compensation, in preparation, 2008.
2. Zheng, Y. and R.S. Wu, Numerical experiment on inversion of depth-dependent heterogeneity spectra in the Earth, in manuscript form.
3. Zheng, Y. and R.S. Wu (2008), Theory of transmission fluctuations in random media with a depth-dependent background velocity structure, in: Earth Heterogeneity and Scattering Effects on Seismic Waves (eds H. Sato and M.Fehler), Advances of Geophysics Series Vol. 50.accepted. [preprint]
4. Zheng, Y. (2007).Imaging Upper Mantle Discontinuities and Earth's Small-scale Heterogeneities, PhD thesis, pp232, University of California, Santa Cruz.
5. Zheng, Y., T. Lay, M.P. Flanagan, and Q. Williams (2007). Pervasive seismic wave reflectivity and metasomatism of the Tonga mantle wedge, Science 11, Vol. 316. no. 5826, pp. 855-859, DOI: 10.1126/science.1138074 [Web]
6. Zheng, Y., and T. Lay (2006), Low Vp/Vs ratios in the crust and upper mantle beneath the Sea of Okhotsk inferred from teleseismic p_MP, s_MP, and s_MS underside reflections from the Moho, J. Geophys. Res., 111, B01305, doi:10.1029/2005JB003724. [Web]
7. Zheng,Y., R.S.Wu and T.Lay (2006), Inverting the power spectrum for a heterogeneous medium, Geophys. J. Int. 168 (3), 1005-1010. doi:10.1111/j.1365- 246X.2006.03241.x [Web]
8. Zheng, Y., and R.S. Wu (2005), Measurement of phase fluctuations for transmitted waves in random media, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32 , L14314, doi:10.1029/2005GL023179. [Web]
9. Zheng, Y., C.C. Mosher and R. S. Day, 3D offset plane wave modeling and migration, in manuscript 2006.

MEETING PRESENTAIONS

1. Zheng, Y., and T. Lay (2002). Imaging properties of the Moho and upper mantle discontinuities under the Sea of Okhotsk, EOS, 83 (Fall AGU Meeting).
2. Wu, R-S, and Y. Zheng, Revisit the Theory of Transmission Fluctuation in Random Media, workshop on "Probing Earth Media Having Small-Scale Heterogeneities", November, 22 (Mon), 2004, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
3. Zheng, Y. and R-S, Wu (2004). Is Markov Approximation Valid for Transmission Fluctuation Problems? EOS transaction, AGU, 85, No.47.
4. Zheng, Y., and R.S. Wu (2005). Probe the Earth's small-scale heterogeneity spectrum using transmission fluctuation functions. IASPEI 2005 Santiago, Chile.
5. Zheng, Y., and M. Flanagan and T. Lay (2005). Upper mantle discontinuities around circum- Pacific subduction zones, EOS transaction, AGU, 86.
6. Zheng, Y., and M.P. Flanagan and T.Lay (2006). Imaging Upper Mantle Discontinuities in the Tonga Wedge by 3D True-amplitude Kirchhoff Migration of p_XP, s_XP, s_XSH data. EOS transaction, AGU, 87.
7. Zheng, Y. and R.S. Wu (2007). Inversion of depth-dependent small-scale heterogeneity spectra in the Earth using transmission fluctuations of logarithmic amplitude and phase data, EOS transaction, AGU, 88.

TECHNICAL REPORTS

1. Zheng, Y., and R-S. Wu (2004). Applicatioin of boundary element method in SEG-EAGE salt modling, WTOPI report 11,159-167.
2. Zheng, Y. and R-S. Wu (2005). Measurement of phase fluctuations for transmitted waves in random media, WTOPI report 12,181-187.
3. Zheng, Y. and R-S. Wu (2006). Prestack Gaussian beam migration and amplitude compensation in local angle domain for acquisition aperture correction. WTOPI report 13, 177-185.
4. Zheng, Y. ,C.C. Mosher and R.S. Day (2007). Three-dimensional offset plane wave modeling and migration, WTOPI report, 14, 178-190.
5. Zheng, Y.,X.F. Jia and R-S. Wu (2008). Impact of survey sinking using Gaussian beam propagator on imaging, WTOPI report, 15, 63-70.