Yun-Ze (Astor) Cheng


Ph.D. Student
Research School of Earth Sciences
The Australian National University

Room #238, Building J2, 142 Mills Road
Acton ACT, 2601 Australia
yun-ze.cheng@anu.edu.au (e-mail)
Personal Website & Google Scholar

Education/Work

PhD in Seismology, 2023 - now
Thesis topic: Lunar Seismology Using Seismic and Correlation Wavefields and Earth Data Proxies
Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian National University

Research Assistant in Seismology, 2021 - 2023/07
Main Research topic: Joint Inversion of Rayleigh Wave Phase Dispersion and Ellipticity and Receiver Functions for crustal S-wave velocity structure
of Northern Taiwan Joint Inversion of Rayleigh Wave Phase Dispersion and Ellipticity and Receiver Functions
Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

M.Sc. in Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University, 2021
B.Sc. in Department of Earth Science, 2018
Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University
Department of Earth Science, National Central University, Taiwan

Publications

Huang, H.-H., Ma, K.-F., Wu, E.-S., Cheng, Y.-Z., Lin, C.-J., Ku, C.-S., Su, P.-L., and MiDAS Working Group., 2024. Spatiotemporal monitoring of a frequent-slip fault zone using downhole distributed acoustic sensing at the MiDAS Project. Distributed Acoustic Sensing in Borehole Geophysics, 459-475.

Conference abstracts

Tkalčić, H., Sun, W., Wang, S., Cheng, Y.-Z., Tang, Q. and Adam, L., 2024. Recent Advances in Studies of Mars' Interior and Beyond. Mars Interior and Geophysics After InSight, Maryland, USA.
Huang, H.-H.*, Ma, K.-F., Lin, C.-J., Ku, C.-S., Kuo, L.-W., Wu, E.-S., Cheng, Y.-Z., 2022. Probing an active fault zone through fibers: The Milun fault Drilling and All-inclusive Sensing (MiDAS) project. American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2022 Fall Meeting, Chicago, USA.
Cheng, Y.-Z.*, Huang, H.-H., Lin, F.-C., Lin, Y.-C., Chen, W.-C., Liu, C.-N., Shih, M.-H., and Lin, C.-H., 2022. Joint Inversion of Rayleigh Wave Phase Dispersion and Ellipticity and Receiver Functions for crustal S-wave velocity structure of Northern Taiwan. American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2022 Fall Meeting, Chicago, USA.
Cheng, Y.-Z.*, Lin, P.-Y., and Su, C.-C., 2019. Detection of the Crustal Discontinuity and Ambient Noise Sources beneath Dongsha Atoll from Buried OBS Array. American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2019 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA.

Award

People choice for poster presentation: 2025 ANU RSES Geophysics Research Showcase: Exporting Earth's Ears: Core Secrets of Other Worlds
People choice for poster presentation: 2024 ANU RSES Student Conference: "Feasibility study of lunar seismic and correlation wavefield"

Research interests

Planetary seismology esp. planetary (and satellites) cores & volcanoes
Single-station methods (Receiver functions); Cross-correlation functions; MCMC joint inversion
Land/Ocean botom seismographs; Distributed Acoustic Sensing; Landslide monitoring network

Technical skills

Computer Languages: Python & GMT; Others: C, Fortran, Matlab
Operating systems: Mac OS X, Linux, Windows

Other skills and interests

Languages: Chinese (native), & English
Hobbies: Volleyball, Hand-pouring coffee, & Sing

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