tbai@MIT.EDU

Tong Bai
  • Postdoctoral Associate 2020-2023
  • PhD, Geophysics & Seismology, Colorado School of Mines, 2013-2019
  • BS, Geophysics & Seismology, China U. of Petroleum (Beijing), 2007-2011
Biographical Overview
Dr. Bai was a postdoctoral associate working with Dr. Nori Nakata from 2020-2023, and he is now a Research Geophysicist at SLB. At MIT he was mainly working on the methodology development and field-data applications of geometric-mean reverse-time migration (GmRTM), a high-resolution source imaging method. His research interests also include wavefield simulation, imaging and inverse problems. He earned his Ph.D. from the Center for Wave Phenomena (CWP), Colorado School of Mines. After that, he was a postdoc researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, working on teleseismic tomography and ambient noise tomography of volcanic fields in Chile and Alaska. He gains industry experiences through his internships at Total and Schlumberger.
In Press
T. Bai, Zhang, Z. , White, M. C. A. , Qiu, H. , Williamson, P. , and Nakata, N. , “A “sliding box” automatic relocation method based on Geometric-mean reverse-time migration”, SEG Annual Meeting 2022. In Press.
2022
T. Bai, Lyu, B. , Li, F. , Williamson, P. , and Nakata, N. , “Elastic geometric-mean Reverse-Time Migration for source imaging”, GEOPHYSICS, pp. 1 - 52, 2022.
T. Bai, Lyu, B. , Williamson, P. , and Nakata, N. , “Receiver grouping strategies for hybrid geometric-mean reverse time migration”, GEOPHYSICS, vol. 87, no. 2, pp. KS45 - KS55, 2022.
T. Bai, “A “sliding box” automated earthquake relocation method based on GmRTM”. 2022.
2021
B. Lyu, Bai, T. , Kurosawa, I. , and Nakata, N. , “Imaging source cloud in hydraulic fracturing using wavefield back-propagation methods”, in First International Meeting for Applied Geoscience & Energy, Denver, CO and virtual, 2021.
T. Bai, Lyu, B. , Gao, F. , Williamson, P. , and Nakata, N. , “Receiver grouping strategies for a hybrid version of geometric-mean reverse-time migration”, in First International Meeting for Applied Geoscience & Energy Expanded Abstracts, 2021, pp. 2046-2050.
2020
F. Li, Bai, T. , Nakata, N. , Lyu, B. , and Song, W. Z. , “Efficient Seismic Source Localization Using Simplified Gaussian Beam Time Reversal Imaging”, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, pp. 1 - 7, 2020.