Researcher and Software Developer in Geophysics

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Summary

Expert researcher in seismic imaging, proficient in geophysics and principally in Data-Driven processing systems that work in order to create a subsurface image from raw seismic data.
I have M.Sc. in Electronic Engineering and I can offer an experience of five years in an Italy Research institute, where I made R&D in geophysics.
I worked on data-driven imaging methodologies, like CRS (Common Reflection Surface) and my main research interest is a Data-Driven PSTM (PreStack Time Migration) that is a innovative way to do a migration without any type of velocity field (or volume), but just starting by data.
Experienced in design, prototyping and industrialization of seismic imaging software for highly parallelized HPC environments that I collected during five years at CRS4, where I made R&D and developed software principally in C++, but also in Fortran, Python, and more programming languages, all this for high Performance computing (HPC).
I would like underline that my work has been always commissioned by OIL & GAS industry.


Experience

2009 - 2014
Expert Researcher in the Imaging and Numerical Geophysics program at Advanced Studies, Research, and Development in Sardinia (CRS4)

Chronicle of activities of research and development made during the period passed at CRS4:

Development of a 2D CRS stack (Common Reflection Surface stack).
At the end has been released an application written in Fortran, C, Python, Shell Scripting.
Research and Development of a 2D DATA-DRIVEN TIME MIGRATION in total absence of velocity field.
At the end has been released an application written mainly in C/C++, Python, Shell Scripting.
Research and Development of a 3D DATA-DRIVEN TIME MIGRATION in total absence of velocity field.
At the end has been released an application written mainly in C/C++, Python, Shell Scripting.

2008 -2009
Teacher at Istituto professionale per l'industria e l'artigianato A. Meucci

2008 -2009
Consultant at Innovative Materials srl

Participation at WP8 BONGRID that is the site-remediation service in MIUR project named GRIDA3

(Shared Resources Manager for Environmental Data Analysis and Applications) .

Participation at WP3 in MIUR, PON project named CHI.S.S.

Teacher at Istituto professionale per l'industria e l'artigianato A. Meucci

2008 -2009 (less than a year)

2008, Laurea (M.Sc.) Degree in Electronics Engineering

Italian Driving licence B
released in 1998

Pre-Intermediate Level
English Certificate released in 2012
(My spoken English is not as strong as in the written form. I need practice more, but I am sure that this will not pose an obstacle.)

Xilinx Design with Verilog
Xilinx certificate released in 2011

Nvidia Cuda
Nvidia Certificate released in 2010

Skills & Expertise

Physics
Science
Applied Mathematics
Mathematical Modeling
Numerical Analysis
Algorithms
Programming
Scientific Computing
High Performance Computing
Simulations
C++
Fortran
Python
Verilog, VHDL
Cuda, OpenCL
Linux
Computer Science
Signal Processing
IDEs: Eclipse, Netbeans, Visual Studio
SCM tools: svn, git, cvs
Matlab, Octave, Mathematica
SeismicUnix, openDtect
Pattern Recognition
LaTeX

Publications

Data-driven time imaging of 2D acoustic media without a velocity model
http://library.seg.org/doi/abs/10.1190/segam2012-1095.1

Conferences and workshops

Eage 2014: Multi-parameter Stacking and Processing:
WS11-D03 3D Velocity Independent Diffraction Imaging
http://www.eage.org/event/index.php?eventid=1000&evp=13370