demiller@mit.edu

Douglas Miller
  • Research Affiliate
  • PhD, Mathematics, U. California at Berkeley, 1976
Biographical Overview
Douglas Miller received his PhD in Mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1976. After completing his doctorate, he taught mathematics at Yale and the University of Illinois at Chicago. In 1981 he joined Schlumberger as a Research Scientist and spent three decades at their labs in Ridgefield CT, Cambridge UK and Cambridge MA. Doug retired from Schlumberger in 2010 and is now a Research Affiliate at the Earth Resources Laboratory (ERL) in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) at MIT. He is also Principal Scientist at Miller Applied Science, LLC. Doug is a distinguished scientist with more than 15 patents and published patent applications. He has been a prolific writer throughout his career and is the author or co-author of over 80 articles published in geophysical or mathematical journals. A member of the research group that started Schlumberger\'s business in seismic imaging in the early 1980s, Dr. Miller was co-inventor (with Michael Oristaglio and Gregory Beylkin) of the theory of seismic imaging by generalized Radon transform (GRT). He has made fundamental contributions to the foundations of seismic imaging in general anisotropic media, and published clear measurements, in situ, of anisotropic elastic behavior of shales from seismic and sonic data. Doug’s current research interests include: data analysis and technology development in geophysics, rock physics, and remote sensing.