Rate My Professor Jeffrey Shragge

Jeffrey Shragge is a Professor of Geophysics in the Department of Geophysics at the Colorado School of Mines, where he serves as Director of the Center for Wave Phenomena. His academic background includes a PhD in Geophysics from Stanford University, an MSc in Geophysics from the University of British Columbia, and a BScH in Physics from Queen’s University. In his leadership role at the Center for Wave Phenomena, Shragge oversees research initiatives in computational seismology and wave phenomena, fostering collaborations among faculty, students, and industry partners.

Shragge's research specializations cover a wide range of advanced geophysical techniques, including 3D acoustic and elastic wave propagation, 3D/4D velocity inversion, 3D/4D reverse-time migration, wave-equation migration, rock physics, computational geometry and differential meshing, near-surface geophysics encompassing ground penetrating radar, magnetics, conductivity profiling, resistivity, and seismic reflection/refraction methods, general purpose GPU computing utilizing CUDA, parallel programming with OpenMP and MPI, distributed acoustic sensing, and microseismic elastic velocity estimation and event imaging. He has earned numerous accolades for his contributions, such as the 2025 REI Award, 2022 T.K. Young Award, Mines Outstanding Faculty Awards for Teaching in Geophysical Engineering in 2021 and 2020, 2019 Top 25 Presentation at the SEG Annual General Meeting, 2018 ICGEG Annual Meeting Best Presentation Award as co-author, 2014 Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Early-Career Research from the University of Western Australia, 2012 Best Paper Award at the ASEG Meeting, 2013 Best Student Paper at the SEG Annual Meeting for a co-advisee, and the 2010 J. Clarence Karcher Award from the Society of Exploration Geophysicists. Key publications among his extensive bibliography include "Multiparameter two-dimensional inversion of scattered teleseismic body waves 1. Theory for oblique incidence" (Journal of Geophysical Research B. Solid Earth, 2001), "Solving 3D anisotropic elastic wave equations on parallel GPU devices" (Geophysics, 2013), "Reverse time migration from topography" (Geophysics, 2014), "Image-domain Velocity Inversion and Event Location for Microseismic Monitoring" (Geophysics, 2017), and "Low-frequency ambient distributed acoustic sensing (DAS): Case study from Perth, Australia" (Geophysical Journal International, 2021). Shragge's innovations in seismic imaging and high-performance computing have had substantial impact on exploration geophysics, microseismic monitoring, and environmental applications.