Welcome three New Associate Editors of AIIG!
Published 17 February, 2025
To facilitate the continued growth and progress of Artificial Intelligence in Geosciences, we are delighted to announce the appointment of three distinguished researchers to the role of Associate Editor of the journal. Please join us in welcoming our inaugural Associate Editors: Dr. Gong Cheng, Dr. Zhiguo Wang, and Dr. Xinming Wu!
Dr. Gong Cheng
Professor, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an.
Dr. Gong Cheng received the B.S. degree from Xidian University, Xi’an, China, in 2007, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China, in 2010 and 2013, respectively. His main research interests are computer vision, pattern recognition, and remote sensing image analysis. His publications have received more than 22,000 citations with Google Scholar, and 5 papers have been cited more than 1,000 times. His 3 papers have been recognized as the China's 100 most influential international academic papers, and more than 40 papers have been recognized as ESI highly cited papers or ESI hot papers. He has been awarded the following honors: IEEE GRSS Highest Impact Paper Awards (2021, 2023), IEEE TCSVT Best Paper Award (2021), Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher (2020-2024), Elsevier Most Cited Chinese Researcher (2020-2024). He is or has been an editorial board member of IEEE GRSM, IEEE TGRS, IEEE JSTARS, IEEE JMASS, ISPRS JPRS, and JRS.
Dr. Zhiguo Wang
Professor and young top talent at Xi'an Jiaotong University
Dr. Zhiguo Wang is specializing in the application of big data and artificial intelligence to geosciences. His research focuses on petroleum exploration, earthquake forecasting, global climate change, and space science, with an emphasis on establishing a framework for intelligent prediction of geoscience data in non-Euclidean space. Prof. Wang is the principal investigator of over 20 funded projects and has published more than 60 papers. He holds more than 10 invention patents and software copyrights. He won the first prize of the Science and Technology Award from the Ministry of Education and was recognized as a "QinChuangYuan Innovation Talent". He serves on the editorial board of Artificial Intelligence in Geosciences (2020-2024) and is a member of the Membership, Travel Grant, and Emerging Professionals International Committees of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG). Additionally, he chairs the Interpretation (INT) special session at the SEG Annual Meeting, is part of the Earthquake Numerical Prediction Committee of the Seismological Society of China, and chairs the "Youth Forum on Cross-Innovation in Mathematics and Earth Science" (2022–2023).
Dr. Xinming Wu
Professor, University of Science and Technology of China
Dr. Xinming Wu received his PhD in geophysics in 2016 from the Colorado School of Mines where he was a member of the Center for Wave Phenomena. He continued on as a postdoc at the Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas at Austin, and then joined the University of Science and Technology of China and became a professor in 2019. There he started a research group working on processing and interpretation of geoscience data sets. Xinming and Dave Hale's paper on image processing for faults won the Best Paper Award in GEOPHYSICS in 2016. He also received an honorable mention for his presentation on automatic stratigraphic interpretation at the 2018 SEG Annual Meeting. Xinming was selected as the 2020 SEG Honorary Lecturer for South and East Asia in 2020 to present his understanding and work on deep learning in seismic interpretation. He is also an Associate Editor for Interpretation and Geophysics.