Jeremy Edward Kozdon

NSF CI TraCS Fellow

Dr. Jeremy Kozdon is an NSF CI TraCS postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University working with Prof. Eric Dunham in the Department of Geophsyics. During his PhD studies he worked with Prof. Margot Gerritsen and was based in the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering at Stanford.

Dr. Kozdon's research interests primarily relate to the development of methods and codes for challenging geoscience problems with a focus on provable stability and accurate methods. During his PhD he developed a multidimensional finite volume method for porous media applications. In his postdoctoral studies his work has focused on both adaptive mesh refinement techniques and high-order accurate finite difference methods for earthquake rupture dynamics.

Research Opportunities

I am currently looking for an undergraduate to work with me this summer (2012) on large-scale earthquake modeling. I am particularly interested in exploring the use of GPUs for these problems and/or developing visualization tools for simulation data. Other projects are possible for students whose background in computing is not as strong, but who have a strong math and physics backgrou geosciences are possible

Interested students should contact me as well as look into applying to either the School of Earth Sciences Summer Undergraduate Research (SESUR) program or the Summer Undergraduate Research in Geoscience and Engineering (SURGE) program as support would come through one of these programs.

In the News!

Some of my research was recently written up by Stanford News service: Stanford scientists' computer models help predict tsunami risk

In addition to the article, they produced a video interview of Prof. Eric Dunham and I as well. This video can be seen below.

More details about this work can be seen in Research Highlights.