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. Currently, he is the Global ML/AI Scientist (Subsurface) at Schlumberger. His active research spans multiple areas including seismic earth imaging and modeling, full waveform inversion (FWI), velocity model building, electromagnetics modeling & inversion, signal processing, and deep learning and data analytics. He has more than 50 technical publications and has 10 US patents / patent applications.