* denotes equal contribution
Thesis
AF Gao. Uncovering Hidden Structure in Data and the Physical World for Seismic Tomography and Beyond. Ph.D. Thesis, California Institute of Technology, 2026. [Thesis] [PDF]
Journal Publications
AF Gao, JD Wilding, E Biondi, KL Bouman, and ZE Ross. High-resolution Eikonal-based Traveltime Tomography and Uncertainty Quantification of the Kilauea Caldera. Geophysical Journal International, 247(2), 2026. [Paper] [arxiv]
T Ragon, AF Gao, and ZE Ross. DeepGEM-EGF: A Bayesian Strategy for Joint Estimates of Source-Time Functions and Empirical Green’s Functions. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 130(12), 2025. [Paper]
Y Shi, AF Gao, ZE Ross, and K Azizzadenesheli. Universal Functional Regression with Neural Operator Flows. Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), 2024. [arxiv]
O Leong*, AF Gao*, H Sun, and KL Bouman. Discovering Structure From Corruption for Unsupervised Image Reconstruction. IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging, 2023. [arxiv] [IEEE] [Project Website] [code]
Y Yang, AF Gao, K Azizzadenesheli, RW Clayton, and ZE Ross. Rapid Seismic Waveform Modeling and Inversion with Neural Operators. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2023. [arxiv]
Y Yang*, AF Gao*, JC Castellanos*, ZE Ross, K Azizzadenesheli, and RW Clayton. Seismic Wave Propagation and Inversion with Neural Operators. The Seismic Record, 1(3), 2021. [Paper] [arxiv]
Conference Publications
Y Lin*, AF Gao*, and KL Bouman. Imaging an Evolving Black Hole by Leveraging Shared Structure. International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2024. [Paper] [Project Website] [code]
AF Gao*, O Leong*, H Sun, and KL Bouman. Image Reconstruction without Explicit Priors. International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2023. [arxiv] [Project Website] [code]
AF Gao, J Castellanos, Y Yue, ZE Ross, and KL Bouman. DeepGEM: Generalized Expectation-Maximization for Blind Inversion. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2021. [Paper] [Project Website] [code]
AF Gao, B Rasmussen, P Kulits, EL Scheller, R Greenberger, and BL Ehlmann. Generalized Unsupervised Clustering of Hyperspectral Images of Geological Targets in the Near Infrared. IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, 2021. [Paper] [arxiv] [code]