Instructors and Postdocs
Luping Qu
Luping is a Postdoctoral Associate in the MIT Department of Mathematics. She received her Ph.D. in Geophysics from the University of Calgary in 2023. Her research lies at the intersection of geophysics and machine learning, with an emphasis on seismic imaging and inversion, uncertainty quantification, and distributed acoustic sensing. Her work has applications to subsurface characterization and monitoring, including carbon storage.
Sihong Wu
Sihong is a Postdoctoral Associate at MIT Earth Resources Laboratory in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences. She received her Ph.D. in Geophysics from Peking University in 2021 and previously held postdoctoral appointments at Peking University and the University of Houston. Her research interests lie at the intersection of AI for science, inverse problems, and uncertainty quantification, with applications to subsurface imaging, natural resource exploration, and energy transition. She received the 2025 Gerald W. Hohmann Award for Excellence in Electrical Geophysics from the Hohmann Wannamaker Trust.
Graduate Students
Jonathan Edelman
Jonathan is a second year PhD student in the MIT Department of Mathematics. He completed a Bachelor's of Science in Mathematics and Computer Science in 2024 and a Master's of Engineering in 2025. His research pertains to subsurface inverse problems with PDEs.
Joonsoo Lee
Joonsoo is a PhD student in the MIT Department of Mathematics. His research is centered around the intersection of computational science and probability. Before MIT, he obtained a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from Columbia University, where he worked on applied PDEs and sampling. Furthermore, he was also a visiting scholar at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, working on optimization under uncertainty.