News Writer:
Cynthia Eller
Caltech junior Kevin Li spent his 10-week Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) working with mentor Julian Bunn, the principal computational scientist for Caltech's Center for Advanced Computing Research, to develop a machine-learning system that can accurately estimate the magnitude of an earthquake within seconds of its detection.
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This summer, Caltech junior Kevin Li has been working with computational scientists and seismologists to refine the Community Seismic Network (CSN) by developing a machine-learning system that can accurately estimate the magnitude of an earthquake within seconds of its detection.