Michael Commer Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories, Berkeley, California 94720 (MCommerlbl.gov). Dr. Commer received his Ph.D. degree in geophysics from the University of Cologne, Germany. His research focused on transient electromagnetic modeling and inversion and was awarded the German Klaus Liebrecht prize for outstanding dissertations. Current research areas include large-scale time- and frequency-domain modeling and data inversion using massively parallel computers. Since 2004, Dr. Commer has been employed with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories (LBNL), where he initially started as a post-doctoral fellow supported by the German Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

Gregory A. Newman Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories, Berkeley, California 94720 (ganewmanlbl.gov). Dr. Newman received his Ph.D. degree in geophysics from the University of Utah in 1987. He is an expert in large-scale electromagnetic field modeling and inversion, with an emphasis on massively parallel implementations. In 2004, Dr. Newman accepted a Senior Scientist appointment within the Earth Sciences Division at LBNL. Previously, he was associated with Sandia National Laboratories and the Institute of Geophysics and Meteorology in Cologne, Germany.

James J. Carazzone ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company, Houston, Texas 77252 (jim.j.carazzoneexxonmobil.com). Dr. Carazzone received his Ph.D. degree in physics from Harvard University in 1975 and had two postdoctoral appointments in the areas of elementary particle physics and quantum field theory at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. In 1978, he joined the upstream research organization of Exxon, where he has worked ever since in the areas of seismic and electromagnetic modeling and inversion applied to hydrocarbon exploration. Dr. Carazzone is a member of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists and the European Association of Geophysicists and Engineers.

Thomas A. Dickens ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company, Houston, Texas 77252 (tom.a.dickensexxonmobil.com). Dr. Dickens received a B.S. degree in physics from the University of Virginia (1981) and a Ph.D. degree in physics from Princeton University (1987), where he was awarded the Joseph Henry Prize. From 1987 to 1990, he was employed by MIT Lincoln Laboratory, where he worked on synthetic aperture radar and infrared imaging techniques. He joined Exxon Production Research (now ExxonMobil Upstream Research) in 1990 and has performed research in the areas of tomography, parallel computing, imaging of complex structures, anisotropic depth migration, and electromagnetic inversion. His current research interests include seismic and electromagnetic imaging, signal processing, and modeling. He is a member of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists, the American Physical Society (APS), and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).

Kenneth E. Green ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company, Houston, Texas 77252 (ken.e.greenexxonmobil.com). Dr. Green received his undergraduate degree in geophysics from MIT in 1974 and a doctorate in oceanography from the MIT-Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in 1980. He joined the Geoscience Group at Exxon Production Research Company (now ExxonMobil Upstream Research) in 1980. His work at ExxonMobil has covered many aspects of exploration in basin hydrocarbon systems, including the subsurface visualization of earth resistivity volumes applied to oil and gas migration, entrapment, and production. Dr. Green is a member of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists.

Leslie A. Wahrmund ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company, Houston, Texas 77252 (leslie.a.wahrmundexxonmobil.com). Dr. Wahrmund received her B.A. degree in geological sciences from the University of California at Santa Barbara and her Ph.D. degree in geology from the University of Texas at Austin. She has worked at Exxon Production Research (now ExxonMobil Upstream Research) since 1991, primarily in seismic interpretation and seismic attribute analysis. She has worked on integration and interpretation of CSEM data since 2003.

Dennis E. Willen ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company, Houston, Texas 77252 (denny.e.willenexxonmobil.com). Dr. Willen joined Exxon Production Research Company in 1980, after receiving his Ph.D. degree in physics from the University of Illinois. Since then he has worked in several areas of exploration geophysics including seismic imaging, near-surface effects, converted waves, well logging, parallel computing, and electromagnetic methods. He is a member of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists and the International Trumpet Guild.

Janet Shiu IBM Deep Computing Group, Two Riverway, Houston, Texas 77056 (jshiuus.ibm.com). Dr. Shiu received her Ph.D. degree in physics from University of Pittsburgh. She was an assistant professor at Old Dominion University and a principal investigator of research grants from the NASA Langley Research Center, where her research focus was in the area of high-power lasers for space application. Since 1985, Dr. Shiu has been employed with Cray Research, Inc., SGI, and the Exxon Upstream Research Company in technical support of high-performance computing. Dr. Shiu joined IBM in 1999 and is a member of IBM Deep Computing technical team.