Gerard Schuster is currently a Research Professor of Geophysics at the University of Utah. From 1985 to 2009 he was a Professor of Geophysics at the University of Utah, and from 2009 to 2021 was a Professor of Geophysics at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). He is also an adjunct Professor of Geophysics at the University of Houston and Wyoming University. He was the founder and director of the Utah Tomography and Modeling/Migration consortium from 1987 to 2009 and the co-director and founder of the Center for Fluid Modeling and Seismic Imaging at KAUST from 2010-2021. Schuster helped pioneer seismic interferometry and its practical applications in applied geophysics, through his active research program and his extensive publications, including his books "Seismic Interferometry" (Cambridge Press, 2009), "Seismic Inversion (SEG, 2017), and "Machine Learning Methods in Geoscience (SEG, 224)". He has extensive experience in developing migration, inversion, and machine learning methods for both exploration and earthquake seismology.


Gerard has an MS (1982) and a PhD (1984) from Columbia University and was a postdoctoral researcher there from 1984–1985. From 1985 to 2009 he was a Professor of Geophysics at the University of Utah. He left Utah to start his current position as a Professor of Geophysics at KAUST in 2009. He received several teaching and research awards while at the University of Utah. He was editor of Geophysics from 2004–2005 and was awarded SEG's Virgil Kauffman Gold Medal in 2010 for his work in seismic interferometry. SEG published Gerard's book Seismic Inversion in late 2017 and will be publishing his almost completed book Practical Machine Learning Methods in The Geosciences.