Zhaobo “Joe” Meng

Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Joe has more than 26 years of experience within the oil & gas industry and academia. Joe specializes in raytracing methods such as TOMO, Gaussian Beam & Kirchhoff. Before starting In-Depth, he was the Director of Seismic Velocity Modeling in the Technology Organization at ConocoPhillips.  He was also a Co-Founder of Nexus (acquired by WesternGeco in 2008) and worked as a Minority Partner. He has a Ph. D from the Center for Wave Phenomena (CWP) at the Colorado School of Mines, he received a MS degree from Harbin Institute of Technology and a BS degree from Shandong University. He is also a member of the SEG Scholarship Committee since 2010.

Bin Gong

Chief Operating Office / Chief Technology Officer

Bin has more than 16 years of experience with the oil industry and academia. Bin specializes in wavefield methods, such as finite difference, RTM, FWI and Velocity Estimation. Before joining In-Depth, he was a Staff Geophysicist at ConocoPhillips, and also worked for GXT in the imaging team prior to joining ConocoPhillips. Bin has an excellent track record in tuning up resource-intensive applications in the industry. He has a Ph. D from Rice University, and MS from Chinese Academy of Sciences and BS from Beijing University.

Layton Payne

Senior Vice President, Business Development & Sales

Layton has over three decades of experience as a successful marine and land geophysicist (Maxus Energy, Arkla), as well as professional sales, marketing, and product development with several large geophysical service companies, including PGS, GXT, GeoTrace, Fugro Jason, and Landmark Graphics.  He has a B.S., Geology, from Louisiana State University, and an MBA-level Strategic Marketing certificate from Cornell University.

Feng Qiao

Chief Geophysicist / Processing Manager 

Feng has more than 14 years of experience with the oil industry and academia. Feng is an expert in velocity modeling, anisotropic parameter estimation and tomo/waveform inversion. Before joining In-Depth, he was a Software Engineer/Geoscientist at WesternGeco in Houston. Feng is also an uber expert in both hardware & software aspect of computing systems. Feng has a Ph. D from Rice University and a MS and a BS degrees from Fudan University.

Chuntao Huang

Senior Processing Geophysicist

Chuntao has more than 10 years of experience with the oil industry. She specializes in modern depth imaging, model building and pre-processing. Chuntao has been mainly working on various onshore projects with velocity estimation and depth imaging in the fault-shadow environment. Before joining In-Depth, she worked for BGP for more than 7 years as an computer hardware engineer and processing geophysicist. Chuntao studied at the Graduate School of Colorado School of Mines and has a BS degree from Petroleum University, China.

Yanhua Dai

Senior Processing Geophysicist

Yanhua specializes in high-end depth imaging and velocity estimation (tomography, RTM and full waveform inversion). Yanhua has published several papers in top peer-reviewed physics journals. Yanhua primarily works on various offshore-projects with velocity and anisotropy estimation in the salt environment. She has a Ph. D degree from Rice University and a B.S. from University of Science and Technology of China, both in Physics.

Fang Yuan

Geophysicist / Intern

Fang has a MS in Geophysics from Texas Tech University, an MS in Geology from Moscow State University, Russia, and a BS in Geology from China University of Geosciences, Beijing, China. She is working towards her PhD from University of Houston.

Yang Xu

Geophysicist / Intern

Yang has a BS in Geophysics from University of Tulsa. She is working towards her MS in Geophysics from Oklahoma University.

Chris Zhou

Geophysicist / Intern

Chris is studying Geophysics at University of Calgary, Canada.