Ming Zhang

Ming Zhang is a Research Affiliate Fellow at OCEEMlab within the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG), part of the Jackson School of Geosciences at the University of Texas at Austin. His expertise focuses on developing algorithms and software for geophysical electromagnetic data modeling and inversion.

His educational background includes:

• Ph.D. in Geophysics from Jilin University
• Visiting Ph.D. in Geophysics at Memorial University of Newfoundland
• B.S. in Measurement and Control Technology and Instrumentation from Jilin University

Zhang specializes in electromagnetic methods for applied geophysics, with technical focus on forward modeling and inversion techniques for controlled source electromagnetic (CSEM), controlled-source audio-frequency magnetotelluric (CSAMT), semi-airborne electromagnetic (SAEM), and transient electromagnetic (TEM) data. His research targets groundwater exploration, geological structure investigation, and engineering/environmental geology applications through joint inversion of electrical resistivity structures.

As a collaborator on the NSF-funded GOFAR project (OCE-192252), Zhang contributes to analyzing seafloor electromagnetic data from the East Pacific Rise to study pore fluid dynamics in earthquake fault systems. His work supports OCEEMlab's mission to investigate Earth-ocean processes through interdisciplinary science and subsea technology development.