Curriculum
Léonard Seydoux
Professor in Geophysics & Artificial Intelligence
Education
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PhD in seismology (2016) at institut de physique du globe de Paris and institut Langevin, France.
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MSc in mechanics (2013) at sorbonne université, Paris, France.
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BSc in physics (2011) at université de Toulouse, France.
Appointments
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Assistant Professor (current position) with a chaire de professeur junior at the institut de physique du globe de Paris (IPGP) within the Université Paris Cité. Research on AI-based monitoring of seismic and volcanic signals, and teaching of seismology, geophysical computing, and machine learning.
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Postdoctoral associate (2021 to 2022) at MIT department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences on slow-slip and tectonic tremor location using deep learning with William B. Frank.
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Postdoctoral visitor (2018 to 2021) at Rice University department of Computational and Applied Mathematics on seismic signal clustering using deep scattering networks with Maarten V. de Hoop and Richard Baraniuk.
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Postdoctoral associate (2017 to 2021) at ISTerre, Grenoble-Alpes University within the ERC grant F-IMAGE on AI-based seismic signal detection and classification with Michel Campillo.
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Research and teaching associate (Fall 2017) at IPGP on seismic array processing and machine learning with Nikolai M. Shapiro.
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Graduate student and teaching assistant (2013 to 2016) at IPGP & institut Langevin on seismic array processing with a covariance matrix method with Nikolai M. Shapiro and Julien de Rosny.
Supervision
Postdocs
- Soyoun Son (2019 to 2021) — seismic waveform clustering on the San Jacinto Fault at ISTerre with Michel Campillo.
- Jean Soubestre (Spring 2017) — Analysis of the seismovolcanic activity at Kamchatka, at IPGP with Nikolai M. Shapiro.
Graduate students
- Miriana Corsaro (Spring 2025) University of Catania, Italy: AI-based location of seismic events recorded with DAS at Campi Flegrei. Visiting for two months at IPGP.
- Adèle Doucet (Since 2023) AI-based monitoring of dormant volcanoes, at IPGP with Nobuaki Fuji, Yosuke Aoki, and Jean-Philippe Métaxian.
- Rodrigo Flores-Allende (Since 2023) Spatio-temporal study of seismicity in subduction zones from inhomogeneous seismic networks with artificial intelligence at IPGP with Fabian Bonilla.
- Sarah Mouaoued (Since 2022) Clustering of continuous seismic data for monitoring with deep scattering networks at ISTerre with Michel Campillo.
- René Steinmann (2019 to 2022) Exploring continuous seismograms with machine learning, defended in December 2022 at ISTerre with Michel Campillo.
Undergraduate students
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Agathe Brisot (Spring 2025) Deep seismicity at Stromboli with an array of OBS sensors, at IPGP with Jean-Philippe Métaxian.
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Noémie Divoux (Spring 2025) Enhancing earthquake location with machine learning, at IPGP with Lise Retailleau.
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Thibaut Ceci (Spring 2024) Exploration of seismic signals generated by dense granular flows, at IPGP with Antoine Lucas et Anne Mangeney.
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Lorette Drique (Spring 2024) InSAR bias estimation over vegetated terrains with machine learning, at IPGP with Manon Dalaison.
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Farzaneh Mohammadi (Spring 2024) Enhancing earthquake location with domain adaptation, at IPGP with Lise Retailleau and Claudio Satriano.
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Zhiyang Guo (Spring 2023) Enhancing earthquake location with domain adaptation, at IPGP with Lise Retailleau and Claudio Satriano.
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Rodrigo Flores Allende (Spring 2023) Analyzing the Mw 8.8 Maule earthquake with AI and template matching, at IPGP with Fabian Bonilla.
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Laure Manceau (Spring 2023) Unsupervised analysis of very long-period earthquakes at Stromboli, at IPGP with Eleonore Stutzmann and Jean-Philippe Métaxian.
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Zhong Min Khoo (Fall 2020) Earth Observatory of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University — Monitoring the volcanic activity of Mt. Merapi with infrasonic and seismic data, at EOS Singapore with Benoit Taisne.
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Cyril Journeau (Spring 2018) Analysis of seismovolcanic tremors with principal component analysis, at IPGP with Nikolai M. Shapiro.
Service
Departmental Service
- President (Since 2025) of the network NuTS funded by CNRS-INSU.
- Research fellow (Since 2025) at the PR[AI]RIE Paris School of Artificial Intelligence.
- Scientific board member (Since 2025) of the Doctoral School STEP’UP.
- Working group member (Since 2024) of the carbon footprint at IPGP.
- Board of directors elected member (Since 2023) of IPGP.
Professional Associations
- Member (Since 2019) of the European Geoscience Union
- Member (Since 2013) of the American Geophysical Union
Session Convener
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EGU Machine learning for time series in geophysics (2025) European Geosciences Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria
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ESC Machine learning solutions to seismic problems (2021) ESC General Assembly, Virtual Meeting
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EGU Machine Learning in Solid Earth Geosciences (2020) European Geosciences Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria
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EGU Machine learning for seismic signal analysis (2019) European Geosciences Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria
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AIP How to see inside the Earth? Theory and applications of inverse problems (2019) Applied Inverse Problems Mini-Symposia, AIP, Grenoble, France
PhD defense juries
- Joachim Rimpot (2025) Exploration automatisée et analyse de flux de données sismologiques par méthodes d'apprentissage machine supervisées et non-supervisées, Université de Strasbourg.
- Julius Grimm (2025) Detection and Characterization of Seismic Signals with Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS), ISTerre, Grenoble-Alpes University.
- Gabriela Arias Mendez (2024) Tsunami warning from prompt elastogravity signals using deep learning, Université Côte d'Azur.
- José Cunha Teixeira (2024) Leveraging seismic monitoring of the subsurface in railway environment, Sorbonne Université.
- Théotime de la Selle (2023) Detection, unsupervised classification and emission mechanisms investigation of acoustic multiplets associated with fatigue cracking, INSA Lyon.
- Alexander Yates (2023) Towards accurate monitoring of explosive volcanoes using seismic noise interferometry, ISTerre, Savoie Mont Blanc University.
Community Involvement
- Developer (since 2019) of the open-source ScatSeisNet Python library.
- Developer (since 2017) of the open-source CovSeisNet Python library.
- Deployment of seismic sensors on the San Jacinto fault zone, (winter 2019) California for the FaultScan ERC Grant by Florent Brenguier.
- Workshop animation (spring 2017) on Artificial intelligence applications in Geophysics at IPGP.
- Workshop organizer and speaker (spring 2014) in the PhD student annual meeting at IPGP.
Reviewing Activities
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