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About Me Publications

(a) Professional preparation

ETH Zurich, Switzerland Geophysics M.S., 2002
ETH Zurich, Switzerland Seismology Ph.D., 2007
SDSU San Diego, CA Seismology 2007-2010

(b) Appointments

10/21-present Computational and Data Science Research Specialist, University of California San Diego
4/15-9/21 Computational Research Seismologist, San Diego State University
4/14 - 3/15 Senior Computational Scientist, San Diego Supercomputer Center
10/10-1/14 Senior Researcher / Lecturer, Swiss Seismological Service and ETH Zurich
05/11-08/11 JSPS postdoctoral fellow (short-term), ERI, Tokyo
11/07-09/10 Postdoctoral researcher, San Diego State University
03/03-10/07 Ph.D. student, ETH Zurich
11/02-03/03 Work experience, Geoscience Australia, ACT, Canberra
05/02-10/02 Research assistant, Swiss Seismological Service

(c) Products

Five most relevant publications

Roten, D., Olsen, K.B., Day, S.M., Cui. Y. and Fäh,D., 2014. “Expected seismic shaking in Los Angeles reduced by San Andreas fault zone plasticity”, Geophys. Res. Lett., 41(8), 2969-2777
Roten, D., Olsen, K.B. and Pechmann, J.C., 2012. ''3D Simulations of M 7 Earthquakes on the Wasatch Fault, Utah, Part II: Broadband (0-10 Hz) ground motion and nonlinear soil behavior, Bull. seism. Soc. Am., 102(5), 2008-2030
Roten, D., Olsen, K.B., Pechmann, J.C., Cruz-Atienza, V.M. and Magistrale, H., 2011. ''3D Simulations of M 7 Earthquakes on the Wasatch Fault, Utah, Part I: Long-Period (0-1 Hz) Ground Motion'', Bull. seism. Soc. Am, 101(5), 2045-2063
Cui, Y., Olsen, K.B., Jordan, T.H., Lee, K., Zhou, J., Small, P., Roten, D., Ely, G., Panda, D.K., Chourasia, A., Levesque, J., Day, S.M. and Maechling, P., 2010. “Scalable Earthquake Simulation on Petascale Supercomputers”, 2010 ACM/IEEE International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis November 13–19 2010, New Orleans, LA
Olsen, K. B., Day, S. M., Dalguer, L. A., Mayhew, J., Cui, Y., Zhu, J., Cruz-Atienza, V., Roten, D., Maechling, P., Jordan, T., Okaya, D., and Chourasia, A. 2009. ShakeOut-D: Ground Motion Estimates Using an Ensemble of Large Earthquakes on the Southern San Andreas Fault With Spontaneous Rupture Propagation.Geophysical Research Letters, 36, L04303.

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Taborda, R., Olsen, K. B., Graves, R. W., Silva, F., Khoshnevis, N., Savran, W. H., Roten, D., Shi, Z., Goulet, C. A., Bielak, J., Maechling, P. J., Cui, Y., & Jordan, T. H. (2018, 06). High-frequency simulations: Verification and validation of the M5.1 La Habra, CA, earthquake. Oral Presentation at 11th National Conference in Earthquake Engineering. SCEC Contribution 7990

Roten, D., Yeh, T., Olsen, K. B., Day, S. M., & Cui, Y. (2023). Implementation of Iwan-Type Nonlinear Rheology in a 3D High-Order Staggered-Grid Finite-Difference Method. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America,. doi: 10.1785/0120230011. SCEC Contribution 13305

Cui, Y., Roten, D., Palla, A., Govind, A., Callaghan, S., Norman, M., Koesterke, L., Zhang, W., & Maechling, P. J. (2023, 09). Progress of porting AWP-ODC to next generation HPC architectures and a 4-Hz Iwan-type nonlinear dynamic simulation of the ShakeOut scenario on TACC Frontera. Poster Presentation at 2023 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 13183

Cui, Y., Callaghan, S., Ren, Y., Koesterke, L., Zhang, W., Norman, M., Roten, D., Maechling, P. J., & Goulet, C. A. (2022, 09). Porting AWP-ODC to next generation architectures: the Characteristic Scientific Application project. Poster Presentation at 2022 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 12322

Xu, K., Roten, D., & Olsen, K. B. (2022, 09). 3D Deterministic Ground Motion Simulations up to 5Hz: Calibration, Validation, and Application of a Seismic Velocity Model in Peru-Chile Coastal Regions. Poster Presentation at 2022 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 12316

Roten, D., Olsen, K. B., Day, S. M., & Cui, Y. (2021, 08). Verification of Iwan-type Plasticity in the Discontinuous-Mesh GPU-powered Wave Propagation Code AWP. Poster Presentation at 2021 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 11636

O'Reilly, O., Yeh, T., Olsen, K. B., Hu, Z., Breuer, A. N., Roten, D., & Goulet, C. A. (2021). A High-Order Finite-Difference Method on Staggered Curvilinear Grids for Seismic Wave Propagation Applications with Topography. Bull. Seis. Soc. Am., 112(1), 3-22. SCEC Contribution 11159

Hu, Z., Roten, D., Olsen, K. B., & Day, S. M. (2021). Modeling of Empirical Transfer Functions with 3D Velocity Structure. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 111(4), 2042-2056. doi: 10.1785/0120200214. SCEC Contribution 10885

Roten, D., Olsen, K. B., Day, S. M., & Cui, Y. (2020, 08). Simulation of Multi-surface Plasticity in the Discontinuous-Mesh GPU-powered Wave Propagation Code AWP. Poster Presentation at 2020 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 10681

Olsen, K. B., & Roten, D. (2020, 08). Deep Learning for Site Response Estimation from Geotechnical Array Data. Poster Presentation at 2020 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 10585

O'Reilly, O., Breuer, A. N., Cui, Y., Goulet, C. A., Olsen, K. B., Roten, D., Thomas-Collignon, G., & Yeh, T. (2019, 08). Simulation of elastic waves in the presence of topography using a curvilinear staggered grid finite difference method. Poster Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 9882

Hu, Z., Roten, D., Olsen, K. B., & Day, S. M. (2019, 08). Modeling of Empirical Transfer Functions including 3D Velocity Structure. Poster Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 9628

Roten, D., Olsen, K. B., Day, S. M., & Cui, Y. (2019, 08). An Iwan-type Plasticity Model for 3D Simulations of San Andreas Scenario Earthquakes. Poster Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 9617

Roten, D., Olsen, K. B., Day, S. M., & Cui, Y. (2018, 08). Implementation of Iwan-type Plasticity Model in AWP-ODC. Poster Presentation at 2018 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 8731

Maechling, P. J., Bielak, J., Callaghan, S., Cui, Y., Field, E. H., Goulet, C. A., Graves, R. W., Jordan, T. H., Milner, K. R., Olsen, K. B., Roten, D., Savran, W. H., Silva, F., Su, M., Taborda, R., & Vidale, J. E. (2018, 08). The SCEC Software Ecosystem for Earthquake System Science Research. Poster Presentation at 2018 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 8582

Hu, Z., Roten, D., Olsen, K. B., & Day, S. M. (2018, 08). Kinematic Source Models for Earthquake Simulations with Fault-zone Plasticity. Poster Presentation at 2018 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 8541

Harris, R. A., Barall, M., Aagaard, B., Ma, S., Roten, D., Olsen, K., Duan, B., Luo, B., Liu, D., Bai, K., Ampuero, J., Kaneko, Y., Gabriel, A., Duru, K., Ulrich, T., Wollherr, S., Shi, Z., Dunham, E., Bydlon, S., Zhang, Z., Chen, X., Somala, S., Pelties, C., Tago, J., Cruz-Atienza, V., Kozdon, J., Daub, E., Aslam, K., Kase, Y., Withers, K., & Dalguer, L. (2018). A suite of exercises for verifying dynamic earthquake rupture codes. Seismological Research Letters, 89(3), 1146-1162. doi: 10.1785/0220170222. SCEC Contribution 7960

Roten, D., Olsen, K. B., Day, S. M., & Cui, Y. (2017). Quantification of Fault-Zone Plasticity Effects with Spontaneous Rupture Simulations. Pure and Applied Geophysics, 174(9), 3369-3391. doi: 10.1007/s00024-017-1466-5. SCEC Contribution 8863

Cui, Y., Mu, D., & Roten, D. (2017, 08). SEISM-IO: A High Level Parallel I/O Library for High-Performance Seismic Applications. Poster Presentation at 2017 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 7809

Nie, S., Roten, D., Olsen, K. B., & Day, S. M. (2017, 08). Fourth-Order Staggered-Grid Finite-Difference Seismic Wavefield Estimation Using a Discontinuous Mesh Interface (WEDMI). Poster Presentation at 2017 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 7794

Wang, N., Roten, D., Olsen, K. B., & Pechmann, J. (2017, 08). Rupture Direction, Basin, Distance and Hanging-wall Effects on Ground Motions from M7 Earthquakes on the Salt Lake City Segment of the Wasatch Fault, Utah. Poster Presentation at 2017 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 7692

Roten, D., Olsen, K. B., & Day, S. M. (2017, 08). Off-fault deformations and shallow slip deficit from dynamic rupture simulations with fault zone plasticity. Poster Presentation at 2017 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 7661

Roten, D., Olsen, K. B., & Day, S. M. (2017). Off-fault deformations and shallow slip deficit from dynamic rupture simulations with fault zone plasticity. Geophysical Research Letters, 40, 1-10. doi: 10.1002/2017GL074323. SCEC Contribution 7300

Roten, D., Olsen, K. B., Day, S. M., & Cui, Y. (2016, 08). High-Frequency Nonlinear Simulations of Southern San Andreas Earthquake Scenarios. Poster Presentation at 2016 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 6716

Cui, Y., Roten, D., Wang, P., Mu, D., Pearson, C., Withers, K. B., Savran, W. H., Olsen, K. B., Day, S. M., & Hwu, W. (2016, 08). Recent Improvements to AWP-ODC-GPU supported by Blue Waters PAID Program. Poster Presentation at 2016 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 6711

Taborda, R., Olsen, K. B., Graves, R. W., Silva, F., Khoshnevis, N., Savran, W. H., Roten, D., Shi, Z., Goulet, C. A., Bielak, J., Maechling, P. J., Cui, Y., & Jordan, T. H. (2016, 09). Verification and Validation of High-Frequency (fmax = 5 Hz) Ground Motion Simulations of the 2014 M 5.1 La Habra, California, earthquake. Poster Presentation at 2016 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 6475

Roten, D., Olsen, K. B., Day, S. M., Cui, Y., & Fäh, D. (2014). Expected seismic shaking in Los Angeles reduced by San Andreas fault zone plasticity. Geophysical Research Letters, 41(8), 2769-2776. doi: 10.1002/2014GL059411. SCEC Contribution 2102

Roten, D., Olsen, K. B., Day, S. M., Cui, Y., & Fäh, D. (2014). Expected seismic shaking in Los Angeles reduced by San Andreas fault zone plasticity. Geophysical Research Letters, 41(8), 2769-2777. doi: 10.1002/2014GL059411. SCEC Contribution 2000

Roten, D., Olsen, K. B., Day, S. M., & Fäh, D. (2013, 9). The Shakeout earthquake scenario with plasticity. Poster Presentation at SCEC Annual Meeting 2013. SCEC Contribution 1891

Roten, D., Olsen, K. B., Day, S. M., Dalguer, L. A., & Fäh, D. (2013). Large-scale 3-D Simulations of Spontaneous Rupture and Wave Propagation in Complex, Nonlinear Media. Seismological Research Letters, 84(2). SCEC Contribution 1863

Day, S. M., Roten, D., & Olsen, K. B. (2012). Adjoint analysis of the source and path sensitivities of basin-guided waves. Geophysical Journal International, 189(2), 1103-1124. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05416.x. SCEC Contribution 1535

Cui, Y., Olsen, K. B., Jordan, T. H., Lee, K., Zhou, J., Small, P., Ely, G. P., Roten, D., Panda, D. K., Chourasia, A., Levesque, J., Day, S. M., & Maechling, P. J. (2011). Scalable Earthquake Simulation on Petascale Supercomputers. Oral Presentation at 2010 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis. doi: 10.1109/SC.2010.45. SCEC Contribution 1507

Cui, Y., Olsen, K. B., Jordan, T. H., Lee, K., Zhou, J., Small, P., Roten, D., Ely, G. P., Panda, D. K., Chourasia, A., Levesque, J., Day, S. M., & Maechling, P. J. (2010). Scalable Earthquake Simulation on Petascale Supercomputers. Oral Presentation at SC10 International Conference for HPC, Networking and Analysis. doi: 10.1109/SC.2010.45. SCEC Contribution 1443

Bielak, J., Graves, R. W., Olsen, K. B., Taborda, R., Ramirez-Guzman, L., Day, S. M., Ely, G. P., Roten, D., Jordan, T. H., Maechling, P. J., Urbanic, J., Cui, Y., & Juve, G. (2010). The ShakeOut Earthquake Scenario: Verification of Three Simulation Sets. Geophysical Journal International, 180(1), 375--404. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04417.x. SCEC Contribution 1260

Olsen, K. B., Day, S. M., Dalguer, L. A., Mayhew, J. E., Cui, Y., Zhu, J., Cruz-Atienza, V. M., Roten, D., Maechling, P. J., Jordan, T. H., Okaya, D. A., & Chourasia, A. (2009). ShakeOut-D: Ground Motion Estimates Using an Ensemble of Large Earthquakes on the Southern San Andreas Fault With Spontaneous Rupture Propagation . Geophysical Research Letters, 36, L04304 1-6. doi: 10.1029/2008GL036832. SCEC Contribution 1255

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