Zhang Yuying, born in Panjin, Liaoning Province, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geology at Northeastern University. Her research primarily focuses on the application of artificial intelligence (AI) and big data analytics in the oil and gas industry, as well as unconventional oil and gas geology and engineering integration. She has achieved multiple innovative results including shale depositional environment reconstruction, shale gas reservoir classification and evaluation, and prediction of favorable zones for tight sandstone gas.
Professor Zhang has published over 10 SCI-indexed papers in authoritative journals such as Marine and Petroleum Geology, Global and Planetary Change, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, and Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, and has been granted one national invention patent. She has also presented papers at international conferences including the AAPG Annual Convention & Exhibition. She has led one project funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and participated in multiple NSFC projects including Key, Youth, General, and International (overseas) funds, as well as over ten projects including the National Science and Technology Major Program and industry-sponsored (horizontal) projects. She received the Second Prize of Scientific and Technological Progress Award from the Ministry of Education (2019).
Contact: zhangyuying@mail.neu.edu.cn
