Qibin Shi
Pan Postdoctoral Fellow @ Rice University

Unraveling the physics of earthquakes through wavefields.

I research earthquake physics, soil hydrodynamics, and apply machine learning to seismology. Currently working at the Department of Earth, Environment, and Planetary Sciences at Rice University.

Seismic Data Visualization

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Agroseismology
Hydrodynamics

Agroseismology

Unraveling the impact of farming practices on soil hydrodynamics using seismic noise.

AI for Seismology
Machine Learning

AI for Seismology

Denoising distributed acoustic sensing data and improving earthquake detection with masked auto-encoders.

Earthquake Physics
Seismology

Earthquake Physics

Understanding rupture dynamics, stress transfer, and fault mechanics through waveform analysis and numerical modeling.

Latest Publications

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Agroseismology: unraveling the impact of farming practices on soil hydrodynamics

Qibin Shi*, David R Montgomery, Abigail LS Swann, et al.

In revision for Science

2025

Concentrated rupture of the 2022 M 6.6 Luding earthquake bounded by stress and geometry barriers

Xinzhong Yin, Qibin Shi*, et al.

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

2025

Multiplexed distributed acoustic sensing offshore central Oregon

Qibin Shi*, Ethan F Williams, et al.

Seismological Research Letters

2025