Presentations

Conference talks, seminars, and tutorials. Papers and proceedings are listed under publications.

2026

Foundation models for Full-Waveform Inference with Uncertainty Quatification

Huseyin Tuna Erdinc, Ipsita Bhar, Shiqin Zeng, Rafael Orozco, Ziyi Yin, and Felix J. Herrmann

1st AIHPG - Artificial Intelligence & High-Performance Geophysics Workshop, Natal, Brazil, May 2026

Context- and uncertainty-aware Digital Twin for the Optimization of Underground Storage Operations

Abhinav Prakash Gahlot, Haoyun Li, Rafael Orozco, Ziyi Yin, and Felix J. Herrmann

SIAM Geosciences Webinar Series, May 2026

Amortized Full-Waveform Inference with Learned Summary Statistics

Rafael Orozco, Ziyi Yin, Mathias Louboutin, Shiqin Zeng, and Felix J. Herrmann

FWI Beyond Structure Interpretation — Benefits and Challenges, SEG workshop, Feb 2026

2025

Amortized Full-Waveform Inference with Learned Summary Statistics

Rafael Orozco, Ziyi Yin, Shiqin Zeng, and Felix J. Herrmann

Reduced Order and Surrogate Modeling for Digital Twins, IMSI, Chicago, Nov 2025

Context-Aware Digital Twin for Underground Storage Operations and Decision Making

Abhinav Prakash Gahlot, Haoyun Li, Ipsita Bhar, Huseyin Tuna Erdinc, Rafael Orozco, Ziyi Yin, and Felix J. Herrmann

Data Assimilation and Inverse Problems for Digital Twins Workshop 2025, Oct 2025

Context-aware Digital Twin for Underground Storage

Abhinav Prakash Gahlot, Haoyun Li, Ipsita Bhar, Huseyin Tuna Erdinc, Rafael Orozco, Ziyi Yin, and Felix J. Herrmann

Artificial Intelligence and Digital Twins for Earth Systems 2025, Sep 2025

Robust Digital Twin for Geological Carbon Storage

Felix J. Herrmann, Abhinav Prakash Gahlot, Rafael Orozco, Ziyi Yin, and Grant Bruer

SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering 2025, Mar 2025

2024

Bayesian inference of airborne electromagnetic data based on normalizing flows

Jiajia Sun, Sihong Wu, Ziyi Yin, and Jiefu Chen

American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, Dec 2024

A Digital Twin for Geological Carbon Storage with Controlled Injectivity

Abhinav Prakash Gahlot, Haoyun Li, Ziyi Yin, Rafael Orozco, and Felix J. Herrmann

ML4Seismic Partners Meeting 2024, Nov 2024

Enhancing Performance with Uncertainty Estimation in Geological Carbon Storage Leakage Detection from Time-Lapse Seismic Data

Shiqin Zeng, Huseyin Tuna Erdinc, Ziyi Yin, Abhinav Prakash Gahlot, and Felix J. Herrmann

ML4Seismic Partners Meeting 2024, Nov 2024

FNO-charged ASPIRE

Richard Rex, Rafael Orozco, Ziyi Yin, and Felix J. Herrmann

ML4Seismic Partners Meeting 2024, Nov 2024

Digital Twins in the Era of Generative AI: Application to Geological CO2 Storage

Abhinav Prakash Gahlot, Rafael Orozco, Haoyun Li, Huseyin Tuna Erdinc, Ziyi Yin, Mathias Louboutin, and Felix J. Herrmann

ICON Seminar in IoT, Oct 2024

WISER: full-Waveform variational Inference via Subsurface Extensions with Refinements

Ziyi Yin, Rafael Orozco, Mathias Louboutin, and Felix J. Herrmann

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience & Energy, Aug 2024

A Digital Twin for Geological Carbon Storage with Controlled Injectivity

Abhinav Prakash Gahlot, Haoyun Li, Ziyi Yin, Rafael Orozco, and Felix J. Herrmann

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience & Energy, Aug 2024

doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2403.19819

Enhancing Full-Waveform Variational Inference through Stochastic Resampling and Data Augmentation

Yunlin Zeng, Rafael Orozco, Ziyi Yin, and Felix J. Herrmann

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience & Energy, Aug 2024

Velocity Continuation for Common Image Gathers with Fourier Neural Operators

Richard Rex, Ziyi Yin, and Felix J. Herrmann

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience & Energy, Aug 2024

Coupled Permeability Inversion from Time-Lapse Seismic Data

Ziyi Yin, Mathias Louboutin, Olav Møyner, and Felix J. Herrmann

Geophysical Research for Gigatonnes CO2 Storage workshop 2024, Jul 2024

DT4GCS –- Digital Twin for Geological CO2 Storage and Control

Abhinav Prakash Gahlot, Rafael Orozco, Haoyun Li, Huseyin Tuna Erdinc, Ziyi Yin, Mathias Louboutin, and Felix J. Herrmann

Geophysical Research for Gigatonnes CO2 Storage workshop 2024, Jul 2024

Digital Twins in the era of generative AI - Application to Geological CO2 Storage

Abhinav Prakash Gahlot, Rafael Orozco, Haoyun Li, Huseyin Tuna Erdinc, Ziyi Yin, Mathias Louboutin, and Felix J. Herrmann

Imperial College London Seminar, Jun 2024

Neural wave-based imaging with amortized uncertainty quantification

Rafael Orozco, Ziyi Yin, Ali Siahkoohi, Mathias Louboutin, and Felix J. Herrmann

Imperial College London Seminar, Jun 2024

Neural wave-based imaging with amortized uncertainty quantification

Rafael Orozco, Ziyi Yin, Ali Siahkoohi, Mathias Louboutin, and Felix J. Herrmann

Inverse Problems: Modelling and Simulation, May 2024

An Uncertainty-Aware Digital Twin for Geological Carbon Storage

Abhinav Prakash Gahlot, Rafael Orozco, Haoyun Li, Grant Bruer, Ziyi Yin, Mathias Louboutin, and Felix J. Herrmann

SIAM Conference on Uncertainty Quantification 2024, March 2024

Digital Twins in the Era of Generative AI: Application to Geological CO2 Storage

Abhinav Prakash Gahlot, Rafael Orozco, Haoyun Li, Ziyi Yin, and Felix J. Herrmann

Halliburotn HCMF Seminar, Feb 2024

Generative AI for full-waveform variational inference

Ziyi Yin, Rafael Orozco, Mathias Louboutin, and Felix J. Herrmann

Georgia Tech Spring 2024 Solid Earth Seminar, Jan 2024

2023

WISE: Full-waveform Inference with Subsurface Extensions

Ziyi Yin, Rafael Orozco, Mathias Louboutin, and Felix J. Herrmann

ML4Seismic Partners Meeting 2023, Nov 2023

End-to-end permeability inversion from prestack time-lapse seismic data: a case study on Compass model

Ziyi Yin, Mathias Louboutin, Olav Møyner, and Felix J. Herrmann

ML4Seismic Partners Meeting 2023, Nov 2023

Monitoring subsurface CO2 plumes with learned sequential Bayesian inference

Abhinav Prakash Gahlot, Ting-ying Yu, Rafael Orozco, Ziyi Yin, Mathias Louboutin, and Felix J. Herrmann

ML4Seismic Partners Meeting 2023, Nov 2023

Large-scale parametric PDE approximations with model-parallel Fourier neural operators

Richard Rex, Thomas J. Grady II, Rishi Khan, Ziyi Yin, and Felix J. Herrmann

ML4Seismic Partners Meeting 2023, Nov 2023

Time-lapse seismic monitoring of geological carbon storage with the nonlinear joint recovery model

Abhinav Prakash Gahlot, Mathias Louboutin, Ziyi Yin, and Felix J. Herrmann

ML4Seismic Partners Meeting 2023, Nov 2023

Maximizing CO2 injectivity within fracture pressure

Haoyun Li, Ziyi Yin, Olav Møyner, and Felix J. Herrmann

ML4Seismic Partners Meeting 2023, Nov 2023

Solving PDE-based inverse problems with learned surrogates and constraints

Ziyi Yin, Rafael Orozco, Mathias Louboutin, and Felix J. Herrmann

HOTCSE Seminar, Nov 2023

Introduction to Seismic Laboratory for Imaging and Modeling

Ziyi Yin

CSE Student Recruiting Event 2023, Nov 2023

Coupled physics inversion for geological carbon storage monitoring

Ziyi Yin, Mathias Louboutin, Olav Møyner, and Felix J. Herrmann

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience & Energy, Aug 2023

Monitoring subsurface CO2 plumes with sequential Bayesian inference

Ting-ying Yu, Abhinav Prakash Gahlot, Rafael Orozco, Ziyi Yin, Mathias Louboutin, and Felix J. Herrmann

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience & Energy, Aug 2023

Uncertainty-aware time-lapse monitoring of geological carbon storage with learned surrogates

Ziyi Yin, Rafael Orozco, Mathias Louboutin, Ali Siahkoohi, and Felix J. Herrmann

Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference 2023, June 2023

Derisking geological storage with simulation-based seismic monitoring design and machine learning

Felix J. Herrmann, Huseyin Tuna Erdinc, Abhinav Prakash Gahlot, Ziyi Yin, and Mathias Louboutin

Carbon, Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) 2023, April 2023

The Next Step: Interoperable Domain-Specific Programming

Felix J. Herrmann, Mathias Louboutin, Thomas J. Grady II, Ziyi Yin, and Rishi Khan

SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering 2023, Feb 2023

2022

Uncertainty-aware time-lapse CO2 monitoring with learned end-to-end inversion

Ziyi Yin, Rafael Orozco, Ali Siahkoohi, Mathias Louboutin, and Felix J. Herrmann

ML4Seismic Partners Meeting 2022, Nov 2022

Simulation-based framework for geological carbon storage monitoring

Ziyi Yin, Huseyin Tuna Erdinc, Abhinav Prakash Gahlot, Mathias Louboutin and Felix J. Herrmann

ML4Seismic Partners Meeting 2022, Nov 2022

Amortized velocity continuation with Fourier neural operators

Ali Siahkoohi, Ziyi Yin, Mathias Louboutin and Felix J. Herrmann

ML4Seismic Partners Meeting 2022, Nov 2022

Time-lapse seismic survey design by maximizing the spectral gap

Yijun Zhang, Mathias Louboutin, Ali Siahkoohi, Ziyi Yin, Rajiv Kumar, Oscar López, and Felix J. Herrmann

ML4Seismic Partners Meeting 2022, Nov 2022

Effective scaling of numerical surrogates via domain-decomposed Fourier neural operators

Thomas J. Grady II, Rishi Khan, Mathias Louboutin, Ziyi Yin, Philipp A. Witte, Ranveer Chandra, Russell J. Hewett, and Felix J. Herrmann

ML4Seismic Partners Meeting 2022, Nov 2022

ML4Seismic open-source software: updates and developments

Mathias Louboutin, Ziyi Yin, Rafael Orozco, Thomas J. Grady II, and Felix J. Herrmann

ML4Seismic Partners Meeting 2022, Nov 2022

De-risking GCS projects with explainable CO2 leakage detection in time-lapse seismic images

Huseyin Tuna Erdinc, Abhinav Prakash Gahlot, Ziyi Yin, Mathias Louboutin, and Felix J. Herrmann

ML4Seismic Partners Meeting 2022, Nov 2022

Monitoring with sequential Bayesian inference

Ting-ying Yu, Rafael Orozco, Ziyi Yin, and Felix J. Herrmann

ML4Seismic Partners Meeting 2022, Nov 2022

Julia for Geoscience

Ziyi Yin, Mathias Louboutin, Philipp A. Witte, Ali Siahkoohi, Gabrio Rizzuti, Rafael Orozco, Henryk Modzelewski, and Felix J. Herrmann

Transform 2022, Apr 2022

Abstractions for at-scale seismic inversion

Mathias Louboutin, Ali Siahkoohi, Ziyi Yin, Rafael Orozco, Thomas J. Grady II, Yijun Zhang, Philipp A. Witte, Gabrio Rizzuti, and Felix J. Herrmann

Rice Oil and Gas High Performance Computing Conference 2022, Mar 2022

2021

Seismic velocity inversion and uncertainty quantification using conditional normalizing flows

Yuxiao Ren, Philipp A. Witte, Ali Siahkoohi, Mathias Louboutin, Ziyi Yin, and Felix J. Herrmann

American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting 2021, Dec 2021, session U12A-03

Improved seismic monitoring of CO2 sequestration with the weighted joint recovery model

Ziyi Yin, Mathias Louboutin, and Felix J. Herrmann

ML4Seismic Partners Meeting 2021, Nov 2021

Low-cost time-lapse seismic imaging of CCS with the joint recovery model

Felix J. Herrmann, Mathias Louboutin, Ziyi Yin, and Philipp A. Witte

2021 IMAGE Workshop on Geophysical Challenges in Presalt Carbonates, Oct 2021

Low-cost & robust seismic monitoring of carbon storage and sequestration with the joint recovery model

Ziyi Yin

Georgia Tech Geophysics Seminar, Sep 2021

2020

Sparsity promoting least-squares migration for long offset sparse OBN

Mathias Louboutin, Ziyi Yin, Yijun Zhang, and Felix J. Herrmann

2020 SEG Workshop on Promises and Challenges with Sparse Node Ultra-long Offset OBN Acquisition in Imaging and Earth Model Building, Oct 2020