Our Team

Jacob Badger

Jacob Badger is a specialist in high performance computing and applied mathematics, and the lead developer behind FrequenSolve. His doctoral work at the University of Texas at Austin focused on fast solvers for frequency-domain wave propagation, demonstrating that this challenging problem could be solved at a scale 1,000x larger than was previously possible. Jacob founded FrequenSol in 2023, with the vision of translating these cutting-edge algorithms into fast, scalable, and flexible modeling and imaging tools.

Sam Badger

Sam Badger is a professional software engineer with 7 years of experience across General Dynamics and Viasat, where his work encompassed mission-critical systems for global satellite communications and network infrastructure. Sam leads cloud engineering at FrequenSol, where his work encompasses platform engineering, deployment infrastructure, and the systems layer that enables complex computational workflows to operate reliably at scale in the cloud.

Dr. Andrey Bakulin

Dr. Andrey Bakulin is a Research Professor at the Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin, and an internationally recognized expert in seismic acquisition, processing, and monitoring. He brings more than 25 years of industry and research experience across Shell, Schlumberger, and Saudi Aramco, where he led major advances in land seismic processing, interferometry, fiber-optic sensing, and permanent reservoir monitoring.

Dr. Bakulin is widely known for pioneering virtual source methods, nonlinear beamforming, and novel applications of DAS for exploration and monitoring in challenging environments. His work has directly influenced modern approaches to low signal-to-noise seismic data, ultra-dense acquisition, and cost-effective monitoring solutions.

He is the recipient of multiple international awards from SEG and EAGE, has authored over 270 publications and numerous patents, and currently co-leads the Texas Consortium for Computational Seismology. At FrequenSol, he serves as an advisor on advanced seismic modeling and next-generation imaging technologies.

Sergey Fomel

Sergey Fomel is the Wallace E. Pratt Professor of Geophysics at the University of Texas at Austin and co-director of the Texas Consortium for Computational Seismology (TCCS). Sergey earned a PhD in geophysics from Stanford University in 2001. He is an honorary member of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) and the Geophysical Society of Houston. For his contributions to exploration geophysics, he was also awarded SEG's J. Clarence Karcher Award (2001) and the Conrad Schlumberger Award from the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (2011). Sergey dedicates part of his time to developing "Madagascar," an open-source software project for geophysical data analysis.