Dr. Zonghu Liao is currently a professor of geology at China University of Petroleum, Beijing. He received his master's and doctorate degrees from the ConocoPhillips School of Geology and Geophysics, University of Oklahoma, USA, in 2012 and 2013 respectively. At the end of 2013, he worked as a postdoctoral research scientist at the Oklahoma Geological Survey. He returned to work in China in 2014 and led a fault research team. From 2016 to 2017, he concurrently served as a deputy director of the Big Data Research Center of Remote Sensing at Tsinghua University and a deputy director of the Tsinghua Big Data Research Center of Internet of Things and Remote Sensing. He has presided over the China-Israel National Natural Science Foundation and participated in the key research and development project of the China Ministry of Science and Technology. He has published more than 30 journal papers in international journals such as Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Geophys.

J. Int., and AAPG Bulletin. He is the co-author of the books "Seismic Interpretation" and "Metaverse (In Chinese)". He serves as the editor of AAPG-SEG journal "Interpretation" on special issues of "Fault damage zones" and "Subsurface fractures", the editorial board member of "Petroleum Science Bulletin", and the editorial board member of "Petroleum Science". He receives Huawei Mindspore Academic award from Chinese Society of Artificial Intelligence in 2022 and the Science and Technology Progress Award (First Prize) from China Ministry of Education (MOE). He is nominated as an honorary university professor by China University of Petroleum in 2021.