Vipul Silwal
Joint Faculty, International Center Of Excellence For Dams (ICED)
Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India
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Top SchoolVipul Silwal is a seismologist and geophysics researcher with 13 years of experience, currently serving as Joint Faculty at IIT Roorkee’s International Center of Excellence for Dams and as an Assistant Professor at IIT Roorkee. He combines theoretical and computational expertise in wave propagation, forward modeling, and adjoint tomography to probe earthquake sources and deep Earth structure, with active projects focused on the Himalayan and Alaskan regions. Vipul applies Bayesian uncertainty quantification for source inversion and leverages high-performance computing to bridge regional and global-scale tomographic efforts. An academic editor for leading journals, he blends rigorous PhD-level research from University of Alaska Fairbanks with practical experience in deploying inversion and minimization strategies across diverse dimensional and theoretical settings. Notably, his work emphasizes the interplay between model complexity, computational constraints, and uncertainty—turning rich seismic datasets into robust Earth models.
13 years of coding experience
St. Joseph's Academy, DehradunDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Geophysics and Seismology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Geophysics and Seismology at University of Alaska FairbanksIntegrated Bachelors and Masters Exploration Geophysics, Integrated Bachelors and Masters Exploration Geophysics at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Github Skills (19)
extraction10
seismology10
data-retrieval10
retrieval9
python8
robust7
diffraction7
ensembles7
uncertainty7
uncertainty-quantification6
adjustment6
minimize5
plot5
graph4
matplotlib3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
vsilwal/vsilwal.github.io
Apr 2017 - Mar 2025
Contributions:67 pushes, 5 branches in 8 years
uafgeotools/capuaf
Jan 2013 - Apr 2019
Contributions:308 commits in 6 years 4 months
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