Wenyi Hu received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Duke University, Durham, NC, USA, in 2005. From 2005 to 2009, he was a Research Scientist at Schlumberger-Doll Research. He joined ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company in 2009 and worked there as a Senior Research Specialist. From March 2013 to May 2021, he was the Vice President of Research at Advanced Geophysical Technology working on a variety of R&D projects on tackling large-scale forward and inverse problems for the oil and gas industry. Currently, he is the Global ML/AI Scientist – Subsurface at Schlumberger. His active research spans different areas of applied geophysics for petroleum exploration and production and energy transition, including seismic imaging, inversion, and modelling, electromagnetics modelling & inversion, signal processing, and machine learning and data analytics. He has more than 60 technical publications and has 13 US patents / patent applications.