Curriculum vitae
General Information
| Full Name | Xin Cui |
| Contact | xcui1997@mail.ustc.edu.cn |
| Languages | Chinese (native), English |
Research Areas
- My research focuses on the application of Machine Learning in seismology, particularly in event clustering and uncovering new seismological discoveries.
- I am developing seismic-agent workflows that combine agentic AI with physically interpretable and reproducible seismic data analysis.
- I am also interested in the evolution and physical mechanisms of foreshocks, aftershocks and mainshocks.
- Additionally, I have worked on the earthquake cycles, specifically the simulation of coseismic and postseismic deformation.
Education
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2026 - CUR
Postdoctoral Researcher in Geophysics, USTC, Hefei, China
- Advisor: Prof. Zefeng Li
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2020 - 2025
Ph.D. in Geophysics, USTC, Hefei, China
- Advisor: Prof. Zefeng Li
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2024 - 2025
Visiting Student, Université Côte d'Azur, Geoazur Laboratory, Nice, France
- Advisor: Prof. Jean-Paul Ampuero
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2019.7 - 9
Visiting Student, California Institute of Technology , Pasadena, USA
- Advised by Prof. Robert Clayton
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2016 - 2020
B.S. in Geophysics, USTC, Hefei, China
- Advisors: Prof. Zefeng Li and Prof. Yan Hu
Field Experience
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2021.8
Field Observation Internship in the Tibetan Plateau
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2019.9
Regional Geological Mapping in Chaohu, Anhui Province
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2018.7
Summer Internship at Yunnan Provincial Seismological Bureau
Honors and Awards
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Award
- President's Special Award, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China (2025)
- Dean's Award, School of Earth and Space Sciences, USTC, China (2025)
- Outstanding Student Presentation Award, 2023 Annual Meeting of American Geophysical Union (AGU), USA
- Best Student Presentation Award, 2023 Annual Meeting of AI for Seismology Conference, Hefei, China
- Best Poster Award, 2023 Annual Meeting of International Professionals for the Advancement of Chinese Earth Sciences (IPACES), Hefei, China
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Scholarship
- National Scholarship Graduate, USTC, China (2023)
- National Scholarship Graduate, USTC, China (2022)
- Outstanding Student Scholarships, USTC, China (2020-2023; Four times)
- Graduation with honor: USTC, China (2020)
Computer skills
- ○ Programming languages: C, Python, Matlab, Shell
- ○ Algorithms: Familiarity with clustering and machine learning algorithms.
- ○ Frameworks: PyTorch, Scikit-learn, NumPy, SciPy, Pandas.
Received Funds
- Youth Student Basic Research Project (PhD Student), National Natural Science Foundation of China, 300,000 Chinese Yuan, PI, 2024/01-2025/12
- The 2024 China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) Young Talent Support Program - PhD Student Special Plan, 2024/01-2025/12
Other Interests
- Sports: soccer (football), table tennis, climbing, hiking
- Hobbies: movies, reading