Topic:

Subsurface Sensing and Super-Resolution Imaging: Application of Computational Acoustics and Electromagnetics

-----IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Distinguished Lecture

Abstract:

    Acoustic/seismic and electromagnetic waves have widespread applications in geophysical subsurface sensing and imaging. In these applications, often the problems of understanding the underlying wave phenomena, designing the sensing and imaging measurement systems, and performing data processing and image reconstruction require large-scale computation in acoustics and electromagnetics. It is very challenging to solve such problems with the traditional finite difference and finite element methods. In this presentation, several high-performance computational methods and super-resolution imaging in acoustics and electromagnetics will be discussed along with their applications in oil exploration and subsurface imaging.

Biography:

    Qing Huo Liu (S’88-M’89-SM’94-F’05) received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in physics from Xiamen University in 1983 and 1986, respectively, and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1989. His research interests include computational electromagnetics and acoustics, inverse problems, and their applications in geophysics, nanophotonics, and biomedical imaging. He has published over 300 refereed journal papers and 450 conference papers in conference proceedings. Since June 1999 he has been with Duke University where he is now a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering.  He is also the Director of the Institute of Electromagnetics and Acoustics at Xiamen University.

    Dr. Liu is a Fellow of the IEEE, Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, Fellow of Electromagnetics Academy, and Fellow of the Optical Society of America. Currently he serves as the founding Editor in Chief of the IEEE Journal on Multiscale and Multiphysics Computational Techniques, the Deputy Editor in Chief of Progress in Electromagnetics Research, an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, and an Editor for the Journal of Computational Acoustics.