Professor Meng obtained his Bachelor's/Master's degree in Geophysics from Peking University in 2011/2014, and his Ph.D. in Earth Sciences from University of Southern California. Over the following two years, he conducted postdoctoral research at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Florida State University in the United States. In June 2022, he joined Southern University of Science and Technology. Professor Meng is actively engaged in research on earthquake physics, fault zones imaging, and urban and environmental seismology. He has published 16 scientific papers. He was awarded Distinguished Young Scholars of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Overseas) in 2021.

EDUCATION

2014-2019: Ph.D. in Geophysics, University of Southern California

2011-2014: M.S. in Geophysics, Peking University

2007-2011: B.S. in Geophysics, Peking University 

RESEARCH POSITIONS

2022-Present: Associate Professor, Southern University of Science and Technology

2021-2022: Senior Researcher, Southern University of Science and Technology

2020-2021: Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, San Diego 

2019-2020: Postdoctoral Scholar, Florida State University

RESEARCH

· Earthquake Physics

    Earthquake nucleation

    Earthquake rupture process

    Earthquake interactions

· Fault Zone Structure Imaging

    Resolving velocity and Q-structures of fault zones

· Urban and Environmental Seismology

    Resolving subsurface structures using anthropogenic and environmental sources

Publications

• Meng, H., Shearer, P., and Fan, W., 2022. Investigating earthquake foreshock processes using a dense nodal array on San Jacinto fault zone. In preparation.

• Meng, H., Fan, W., McGuire, J., and Cochran, E., 2022. Resolving finite source attributes of moderate and small magnitude earthquakes of the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence. In revision.

• Zhang, X., Arrowsmith, S., Tsonpas, S., Hayward, C., Meng, H., and Ben-Zion, Y., 2022. A data-driven framework for automated detection of aircraft-generated signals in seismic array data using machine learning. Seismological Research Letters, 93(1), pp.226-240. 

• Meng, H., and Fan, W., 2021. Immediate foreshocks indicating cascading rupture developments for 527 M 0.9 to 5.4 Ridgecrest earthquakes. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(19), p.e2021GL095704.

• Meng, H., Ben-Zion, Y., and Johnson, C. W., 2021. Analysis of seismic signals generated by vehicle traffic with application to derivation of subsurface Q values. Seismological Research Letters, 92(4), pp.2354-2363. 

• Meng, H., Ben-Zion, Y., and McGuire, J., 2020. Semi-automated estimates of directivity and related source properties of small to moderate southern California earthquakes with second seismic moments, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 125(4) , p.e2019JB018566. 

• Johnson, C.W., Ben-Zion, Y., Meng, H., and Vernon, F., 2020. Identifying different classes of seismic noise signals using unsupervised learning. Geophysical Research Letters, 47(15), p.e2020GL088353. 

• Meng, H., Ben-Zion, Y. and Johnson, C., 2019. Detection of random noise and anatomy of continuous seismic waveforms in dense array data near Anza California. Geophysical Journal International, 219(3), pp.1463-1473.  

• Johnson, C.W., Meng, H., Vernon, F. and Ben-Zion, Y., 2019. Characteristics of ground motion generated by wind interaction with trees, structures, and other surface obstacles. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 124(8), pp.8519-8539. 

• Meng, H., and Ben-Zion, Y., 2018. Characteristics of airplanes and helicopters recorded by a dense seismic array near Anza California. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 123(6), pp.4783-4797. 

• Meng, H., and Ben-Zion, Y., 2017. Detection of small earthquakes with dense array data: example from the San Jacinto fault zone, southern California. Geophysical Journal International, 212(1), pp.442-457. 

• Ben-Zion, Y., Vernon, F.L., Ozakin, Y., Zigone, D., Ross, Z.E., Meng, H., White, M., Reyes, J., Hollis, D. and Barklage, M., 2015. Basic data features and results from a spatially dense seismic array on the San Jacinto fault zone. Geophysical Journal International, 202(1), pp.370-380. 

• Meng, H., and Chen, Y.J., 2014. Synthetic sensitivity analysis of high frequency radiation of 2011 Tohoku-Oki (M W 9.0) earthquake. Earthquake Science, 27(4), pp.355-364. 

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