Zhang Gulan, Male, From Shiyan, Hubei Province, holds a PhD, is a Level 2 Professor and Doctoral Supervisor, Director of the Institute of Geophysics at Southwest Petroleum University, and a permanent researcher at the National Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Development Engineering. He is a recipient of the Sichuan Province "Tianfu Emei Plan" Innovation Leading Talent, Sichuan Province "Tianfu Emei Plan" Entrepreneurial Leading Talent, and Sichuan Province Outstanding Young Scientific and Technological Talent. He is also a recipient of the Fu Chengyi Youth Science and Technology Award and the Liu Guangding Geophysical Youth Science and Technology Award, and a National Outstanding Scientific and Technological Worker in Petroleum and Chemical Industry . He is the head of the Exploration Geophysics Discipline Construction at Southwest Petroleum University. He is a member of the SEG Continuing Education Committee, the Geophysical Exploration Professional Committee of the China Petroleum Society, and the Intelligent Geophysics Committee and Exploration Geophysics Committee of the Chinese Geophysical Society . He serves as an expert reviewer for the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Education, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the China Association for Science and Technology, Beijing Municipality, Chongqing Municipality, Sichuan Province, Guangdong Province, Jilin Province, and China National Petroleum Corporation.

He has presided over 15 national-level projects, including projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), sub-projects of the National Key R&D Program, sub-projects of the National Major Science and Technology Project, the Sichuan Provincial Outstanding Young Talents Program, and key projects of the Sichuan Provincial Foundation; and 20 key projects funded by oil and gas companies. He has received 22 provincial and ministerial awards/honors; published 2 English monographs; and authored 150 papers, including 71 SCI papers and 13 EI papers . He holds 1 PCT invention patent, 41 Chinese invention patents, and 32 software copyrights.One group standard ; editorial board member/associate editor of SCI journals *Journal of Geophysics and Engineering*, *Journal of Applied Geophysics*, *Acta Geophysica*, * Journal of Seismic Exploration*, and * Applied Geophysics*; youth editorial board member of SCI journal *Petroleum Science*; editorial board member of EI journal *Petroleum Geophysical Exploration*; editorial board member of Chinese core journals *Petroleum Geophysical Exploration* and *Marine Oil and Gas Geology*; vice chairman and member of the academic committee of multiple large-scale international/domestic academic conferences; reviewer for more than 20 SCI journals.

Educational Background

2013.09 – 2016.06 : Chengdu University of Technology , Geo-exploration and Information Technology, PhD; Supervisors: Professor He Zhenhua, Professor Cao Junxing.

2005.09 – 2008.06​Chengdu University of Technology, Earth Exploration and Information Technology, Master's Thesis; Supervisors: Professor He Zhenhua, Professor Huang Deji.

September 2000 – June 2004Chengdu University of Technology, Exploration Technology and Engineering, Bachelor's Degree.

Work Experience

April 2017 – Present : Professor (promoted ahead of schedule), Doctoral Supervisor, School of Earth Sciences and Technology, Southwest Petroleum University; Director of the Institute of Geophysics, Southwest Petroleum University.

2008.07 – 2017.03 : CNPC Eastern Geophysical Company, Institute of Development Seismology/Institute of Unconventional Oil and Gas Geophysics.

• Geophysics
• Earth Exploration
• Information Technology

• Caijun Cao, Gulan Zhang*, Yiliang Luo, Chenxi Liang, Jing Duan, Shiyun Ran, Jiawei Zhang. Wavefield Separation-Driven High-Precision Deep-Learning Karst Caves Recognition Method. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 2025,22:7505805.
• Yiliang Luo, Gulan Zhang*, Jing Duan, Xiangwen Li, Chenxi Liang, Qihong Zhong, Shiyun Ran, and Caijun Cao. Multitask Two-Stage Deep Learning Seismic Strong and Weak Reflection Separation. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2025,63:5902311.
• Shiyun Ran, Gulan Zhang*, Yiliang Luo, Caijun Cao, Chenxi Liang, and Liming Ma. Iterative Intelligent High-Precision High-SNR Seismic Weak Reflection Separation Method and its Application. Journal of Geophysics and Engineering, 2025. DOI:10.1093/jge/gxaf135.
• Yong Li, Gulan Zhang*, Guanghui Hu, Jiachun You, Jing Duan, Jianlong Su, Yiliang Luo, Chenxi Liang, Qihong Zhong, and Fengchi Yang. Multiscale Staggered-Grid Adjoint-State First-Arrival Slope Tomography Seismic Velocity Inversion. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2024,62: 5934011.
• Fei Deng, Rui Liang, Wen Luo, and Gulan Zhang*. Deep Learning Segmentation of Seismic Facies Based on Proximity Constraint Strategy: Innovative Application of UMA-Net Model. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2024,62: 5929517.
• Jing Duan, Gulan Zhang*, Jiachun You, Guanghui Hu, Yiliang Luo, Shiyun Ran, Qihong Zhong, Caijun Cao, Wenjie Tang, and Chenxi Liang. Seismic Facies-Guided High-Precision Geological Anomaly Identification Method and Application. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2024,62: 5927111.
• Yiliang Luo, Gulan Zhang*, Guowei Liang, Xiangwen Li, Jing Duan, Lei Li, Qihong Zhong, Yibo Yang, Ziheng Li, Fengchi Yang, and Feng Qian. Limited-Label Multiscale Deep-Learning Multihorizon Tracking. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2024, 62: 5918814.
• Jing Duan, Gulan Zhang*, Xiangwen Li, Yintao Zhang, Lei Li, Wei Liu, Shiyun Ran, Caijun Cao, Wenjie Tang, Fengchi Yang, and Yiliang Luo. Seismic Facies-Guided Trace-by-Trace High-Precision Strong and Weak Reflection Separation. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2024, 62: 5912317.
• Wenge Liu, Qisong Mou, Gulan Zhang*, Wenmao Tu, and Haoze Qin. Full Strata Seismic Waveform Inversion with Adaptive Iteration. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2024, 62: 4505712.
• Jing Duan, Gulan Zhang*, ChuanQiang Li, Shuanghu Shi, Yiliang Luo, Yong Li and Feng Qian. Trace-by-Trace Iterative VSP Wavefield Separation. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 2024, 21: 7504405.
• Wen Luo, Fei Deng, Peifan Jiang, Xiujun Dong, and Gulan Zhang*. FSegNet: A Semantic Segmentation Network for High-Resolution Remote Sensing Images That Balances Efficiency and Performance. Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 2024, 21: 4501005.
• Feng Qian, Haowei Hua, Yuhang Wen, Shengli Pan, Gulan Zhang*, and Guangmin Hu. Unsupervised 3-D Seismic Erratic Noise Attenuation with Robust Tensor Deep Learning. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2024, 62: 5908616.
• Feng Qian, Haowei Hua, Yuhang Wen, Jingjing Zong, Gulan Zhang*, and Guangmin Hu. Unsupervised Intense VSP Coupling Noise Suppression with Iterative Robust Deep Learning. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2024,62:5901817.
• Yiliang Luo, Gulan Zhang*, Wenge Liu, Jianjun Zhang, Lei Li, Xiangwen Li, and Jing Duan. Strata Boundary-Constrained Multitask Multihorizon Tracking. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 2024, 21: 7500405.
• Yong Li, Gulan Zhang*, Guanghui Hu, Ke Li, Yiliang Luo, Chenxi Liang, and Jing Duan. High-precision and high-efficiency first-arrival slope tomography via eikonal solvers and the adjoint-state method. Journal of Geophysics and Engineering, 2023, 20(4): 774 – 778.
• Xiangwen Li, Jingye Li, Lei Li, Gulan Zhang*, Chen Xu, Shifan Zhan, Guangjian Dan, Yonglei Liu, and Yintao Zhang. Ultradeep fractured-vuggy reservoir characteristic identification based on well data constrained seismic linear discriminant analysis. Geophysics, 2023,88(3): M119 – M130.
• Yiliang Luo, Gulan Zhang*, Jianjun Zhang, Yong Li, Yu Lin, Biao Li, Chenxi Liang, and Lei Li. Sequence-constrained multitask horizon tracking. Geophysics, 2023,88(2): IM15 – IM27.
• Haowei Hua, Feng Qian, Gulan Zhang*, Yuehua Yue, and Guangmin Hu. Unsupervised Seismic Facies Analysis via Class-Imbalanced Deep Embedding Clustering. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 2023, 20: 7506505.
• Haowei Hua, Feng Qian, Gulan Zhang*, and Yuehua Yue. Unsupervised Seismic Facies Deep Clustering Via Lognormal Mixture-Based Variational Autoencoder. Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 2023,16: 9831 – 9842.
• Yiliang Luo, Gulan Zhang*, Jing Duan, Chenxi Liang, Qi Wu, Fengchi Yang, and Xiangwen Li. Two-Stage Multitask U-Network VSP Wavefield Separation. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 2023, 20: 7504405.
• Jiachun You, Jinquan Zhao, Xingguo Huang, Gulan Zhang*, Anqing Chen, Mingcai Hou, and Junxing Cao. Explainable Convolutional Neural Networks Driven Knowledge Mining for Seismic Facies Classification. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2023,61: 5911118.
• Fei Deng, Wen Luo, Yudong Ni, Xuben Wang, Yan Wang, and Gulan Zhang*. UMiT-Net: A U-Shaped Mix-Transformer Network for Extracting Precise Roads Using Remote Sensing Images. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2023,61: 5801513.
• Fengchi Yang, Gulan Zhang*, Lei Li, Hao Du, and Yong Li. High-Dimensional Multiscale Trapezoidal Side Window Filtering and Its Application for Seismic Data Denoising. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 2023,20:7500505.
• Meng Zeng, Gulan Zhang*, Yong Li, Yiliang Luo, Guanghui Hu, Yanlin Huang, and Chenxi Liang. Combined multi-branch selective kernel hybrid-pooling skip connection residual network for seismic random noise attenuation. Journal of Geophysics and Engineering, 2022,19(4): 863 – 875.
• Jing Duan, Gulan Zhang*, Chenxi Liang, Yizong Zhan, and Yong Li. High-efficiency and precision VSP Wavefield separation method via DCT. Journal of Geophysics and Engineering, 2022,19(2):192 – 210.
• Houjun Liu, Junxing Cao, Zhenhua He, Yong Li, Kai Lin, and Gulan Zhang*. Lp-order time-frequency spectra and its application in edge detection. Applied Science-basel, 2022, 12(6): 2836.
• Yiliang Luo, Gulan Zhang*, Lei Li, Xudong Zhang, Jing Duan, Xiangwen Li, and Yong Li. Attention based two-stage U-net horizon tracking. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 2022,19: 8030205.
• Yong Li, Gulan Zhang*, Hao Du, Lei Li, Feng Qian, Jing Duan, and Yizong Zhan. Multiscale adaptive side window filtering and its application on seismic data. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 2022, 19: 8026405.
• Chenxi Liang, Gulan Zhang*, Lei Li, Biao Li, Yiliang Luo, Yong Li, Jing Duan, and Xiaoqin Wu. Efficient Fault Surface Grouping in 3-D Seismic Fault Data. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2022, 60: 5916213.
• Feng Qian, Wei Guo, Zhangbo Liu, Hongtao Yu, Gulan Zhang*, and Guangmin Hu. Unsupervised erratic seismic noise attenuation with robust deep convolutional autoencoders. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2022, 60: 5913016.
• Jing Duan, Gulan Zhang*, Guanghui Hu, Chuanao Yu, Yubo Yue, Biao Li, and Yong Li. High-precision iterative VSP wavefield separation. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 2022, 19: 3008405.
• Yong Li, and Gulan Zhang*. High-precision and high-resolution synchrosqueezing transform via time-frequency instantaneous phases. Applied Science-basel, 2021,11(24): 11760.
• Feng Qian, Cangcang Zhang, Lingtian Feng, Cai Lu, Gulan Zhang*, and Guangmin Hu. Tubal-Sampling: Bridging Tensor and Matrix Completion in 3-D Seismic Data Reconstruction. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2021, 59(1): 854 – 870.
• Jing Duan, Gulan Zhang*, Yong Li, Chengjie He, Hao Du, Fan Luo, Yizong Zhan, and Jia Wang. Right-hand rule 3C VSP wavefield separation method. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 2020,17(10):1682 – 1686.
• Gulan Zhang*, Jing Duan, Yong Li, Chengjie He, Hao Du, Fan Luo, Yizong Zhan, and Jia Wang. Adaptive time-resample high-resolution synchrosqueezing transform and its application in seismic data. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2020, 58(9): 6691 – 6698.
• Yong Li, Gulan Zhang*, Jing Duan, Chengjie He, Hao Du, Fan Luo, Yizong Zhan, and Jia Wang. Extended stable factor method for the inverse Q-filter. Geophysics, 2020, 85(3): T155 – T163.
• Guanghui Hu, Gulan Zhang*, Siyu Sun, Yong Li, Jinglong Yang, Jing Duan, Hongbing He, and Yizong Zhan. FWI of high-speed-train seismic first arrival signal. Chinese Journal of Geophysics, 2019, 62(12): 4817 – 4824.
• Wei Liu, Gulan Zhang*, Junxing Cao, Jianjun Zhang, and Gang Yu. Combined Petrophysic and 3D seismic attributes to predict shale reservoirs favourable areas. Journal of Geophysics and Engineering, 2019, 16(5):974 – 991.
• Honglue Qu, Chenxu Wang, Gulan Zhang*, Ying Liu, Hao Luo, and Qian Mei. Seismic damage mechanism of bedrock and over-burden layer slope reinforced by sheet pile wall. Journal of Geophysics and Engineering, 2019, 16(4): 667 – 679.
• Gulan Zhang, Chengjie He, Yong Li, Jing Duan, Tingyi Wang, Yizong Zhan, Hao Du, and Fan Luo. High-speed-train seismic wavelet time function and verification. Chinese Journal of Geophysics, 2019, 62(6): 2344 – 2354.
• Gulan Zhang*, Yong Li, Tingyi Wang, Hao Du, Fan Luo, and Yizong Zhan. Extended Hilbert transform and application for seismic attributes. Earth and Space Science, 2019, 6(5): 873 – 886.
• Yubo Yue, Hequn Li, Yan Li, Gulan Zhang*, and Yunyan Shi. Common reflection point stacking for ocean-bottom node data. Journal of Applied Geophysics, 2019,163:151 – 160.
• Gulan Zhang*. Time-phase amplitude spectra based on a modified short-time Fourier transform. Geophysical Prospecting, 2018, 66(1): 34 – 46.
• Gulan Zhang*, Ximing Wang, and Zhenhua He. An efficient and self-adaptive approach for Q value optimization. Geophysical Prospecting, 2017, 65(1): 280 – 291.
• Gulan Zhang, Jin Lin, Ximing Wang, Zhenhua He, Junxing Cao, Jianjun Zhang, Xilei He, Kai Lin, and Yajuan Xue. A self-adaptive approach for inverse Q-filtering. Chinese Journal of Geophysics, 2015, 58(7): 2525 – 2535.
• Gulan Zhang*, Ximing Wang, and Zhenhua He. A stable and self-adaptive approach for inverse Q-filter. Journal of Applied Geophysics, 2015, 116: 236 – 246.
• Gulan Zhang, Ximing Wang, Zhenhua He, Gang Yu, Yanpeng Li, and Wei Liu. Impact of Q value and gain-limit to the resolution of inverse Q filtering. Journal of Geophysics and Engineering, 2014, 11(4): 045011.
• Gulan Zhang*, Ximing Wang, Zhenhua He, Junxing Cao, Keen Li, and Jiaojun Rong. Interval Q inversion based on zero-offset VSP data and applications. Applied Geophysics，2014,11(2): 235 – 244.
• Gulan Zhang, Zhenhua He, Ximing Wang, Jianjun Zhang, Yanbin Zhang, and Fei Li. Seismic wave dispersion effects and inverse Q-filter phase compensation. Chinese Journal of Geophysics, 2014, 57(5): 345 – 354.
• Gulan Zhang. Low-frequency absorption gradient detection based on improved generalized S transform. Chinese Journal of Geophysics, 2011, 54(9): 2407 – 2411.
• Jiachun You*, Gulan Zhang, Xiangwen Li, Xingguo Huang, and Junxing Cao. Internal-multiple-elimination with application to migration using two-way wave equation depth-extrapolation scheme. Petroleum Science, 2025, 22(1): 178 – 192.
• Jianhui Sun, Yuyao Wang, Jialei Zhang, Yongxin Liang, Gulan Zhang, Anchi Wan, Shibo Zhang, Zhenyu Ye,Yinze Zhou, Qiang Jing, Yunjiang Rao, Hua Wang, and Zinan Wang*. 2-D Phase Unwrapping in DAS Based on Transport-of-Intensity-Equation: Principle, Algorithm and Field Test. Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2024, 42(18): 6490 – 6500.
• Junzhao Chen, Jiachun You*, Junting Wei, Zhongkui Dai, and Gulan Zhang. Interpreting XGBoost predictions for shear-wave velocity using SHAP: Insights into gas hydrate morphology and saturation. Fuel, 2024, 364:131145.
• Xiangwen Li, Jingye Li*, Xukui Feng, Guangjian Dan, Gulan Zhang, Lei Zhang, Ming Zhang, Liangliang Zhang, Hongbo Zhou, and Wei Zhao. Heterogeneous reservoir prediction of Ultra-deep strike-slip fault-damaged zone constrained with local seismic anomaly data. Earth Science Informatics, 2022,15(3):1427 – 1441.
• Xudong Zhang, Cheng Yin*, Ronghuo Dai, and Gulan Zhang. Geophysical characteristics of a focused fluid flow system in the western South China Sea. Environmental Geotechnics, 2022, 9(4):233 – 241.
• Xudong Zhang*, Cheng Yin, and Gulan Zhang. Confirmation of AVO attribute inversion and gas hydrate characteristics study in the Shenhu Area, South China Sea. Pure and Applied Geophysics, 2021,178(2): 477 – 490.
• Biao Li, Nuwen Xu*, Feng Dai, Gulan Zhang, and Peiwei Xiao. Dynamic analysis of rock mass deformation in large underground caverns considering microseismic data. International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences, 2019,122: 104078.
• Haixia Zhao*, Jinghuai Gao, Jigen Peng, and Gulan Zhang. Modeling attenuation of diffusive-viscous wave using reflectivity method. Journal of Theoretical and Computational Acoustics, 2019, 27(3):1850030.
• Xiaoyang Wang*, Zhenhua He, Yalin Li, Gulan Zhang, Hao Zhang, Jiangli Chen, Min Li, Yufeng Wang, and Zhichao Yang. Application effects of swath 3D geometry in foothills regions in western China. Journal of seismic exploration, 2019, 28(4): 347 – 361.
• Jianyou Chen*, Junrui Ning, Wenchao Chen, Xiaokai Wang, Wei Wang, and Gulan Zhang. Distributed acoustic sensing coupling noise removal based on sparse optimization. Interpretation, 2019,7(2): 373 – 382.
• Yajuan Xue*, Junxing Cao, Gulan Zhang, Guanghui Cheng, and Hui Chen. Application of synchrosqueezed wavelet transforms to estimate the reservoir fluid mobility. Geophysical Prospecting, 2018, 66(7):1358 – 1371.
• Yajuan Xue*, Junxing Cao, Haokun Du, Gulan Zhang, and Yao Yao. Does mode mixing matter in EMD-based highlight volume methods for hydrocarbon detection? Experimental evidence. Journal of Applied Geophysics, 2016,132:193 – 210.

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