Dr. Jerry Harris

Biography

Jerry Harris joined Stanford University in 1988 after eleven years in private industry. He specializes in the physics of seismic and electromagnetic waves in complex media, focusing on modeling, numerical simulations, and processing field data. His recent research involves fractional Laplacian formulations for Q modeling and full waveform inversion with reduced order models and machine-learned dictionaries. Harris co-founded Stanford's Global Climate Energy Project (GCEP) and served as the Director of the Stanford Center for Computational Earth and Environmental Science (CEES). He was the chair of the Geophysics Department from 2000 to 2005 and has held various academic and administrative positions, including Associate Dean for Multicultural Affairs in the School of Earth Sciences. His work has garnered numerous awards, including the President’s Award for Excellence in Diversity. Harris has made significant contributions to the field of geophysics and has taught various courses, including those on borehole geophysics and computational geosciences. His research group, the Stanford Wave Physics Lab, engages in collaborations worldwide and has helped to advance the understanding of seismic imaging and monitoring for petroleum and CO2 storage.

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