I am a graduate student pursuing a Ph.D. degree in the Department of Geosciences of The Pennsylvania State University. My adviser is Charles J. Ammon. I am also a research scientist of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS), a government institute mandated to perform functions such as monitoring and studying seismic and volcanic activities in the Philippines.

My current research focus is combining receiver function and surface-wave dispersion observations to estimate the shear-velocity structure of the lithosphere beneath central and eastern Asia.
Other projects that I am working on include:
1) mapping seismic velocity variations beneath the Philippine Island arcs using body- and surface-wave tomography;
2) estimating precise relative earthquake locations using surface waves and correlating seismicity patterns with free-air gravity anomaly data to study the frictional properties of Philippine subduction zones.

My M.Sc. thesis research was focused on rupture processes of interplate earthquakes in the Philippine Trench. I used teleseismic broadband P-waveforms and applied multi-station deconvolution technique to extract the source time function and depth constraints for each earthquake. Mapping the earthquake rupture durations along the shallow plate interface is a good proxy in investigating the tsunami-earthquake potential of the trench.

I have also collaborated with Harley Benz of the National Earthquake Information Center, United States Geological Survey (NEIC-USGS) where I constructed and tested several earth structure models and performed moment-tensor inversions to evaluate the feasibility of near-real time estimation of the faulting parameters of small-to-moderate sized earthquakes in the contiguous U.S.