Robert G. Clapp

Robert Clapp was born in Eugene, Oregon. He received the B.Sc. degree (Hons.) in geophysical engineering from the Colorado School of Mines, in 1993, and the master’s and Ph.D. degrees from the Geophysics Department, Stanford University, in 1995 and 2000, respectively. The title of his thesis was migration velocity analysis with geologic constraints. He joined the Stanford Exploration Project (SEP) headed by Jon Claerbout and Biondo Biondi. Since 2000, he has been a Post-Doctoral Researcher and a Research Associate with the Geophysics Department, where he is currently a Senior Research Engineer. He now works half-time with SEP and half-time with the Center for Computational Earth and Environmental Science (CEES). His current research interests include velocity analysis, imaging, computational interpretation, high-performance computing, hardware accelerators, and parallel computing. He is a member of the SEG and AGU. In 2006, he received the J. Clarence Karcher Award from the SEG.