•B.S., Department of Power Mechanical Engineering , National Tsing Hua University, 1979

•Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering，U. C. Berkeley in USA，1984

•Associate Researcher, Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley Lab, 1984-1985

•Associate Researcher, Institute of Applied Mechanics at Taiwan University,1985-1991

•Associate Professor, Tsinghua University, 1991-1992

•Full Professor, Tsinghua University, 1992-date

Numerical simulation of seismic wavefield, inversion of parameter reservoir media, multi- parameter comprehensive petroleum forecasting with artificial neural networks, modeling of complicated media, pre-stack depth migration in anisotropic media, seismic analysis of dams, and so on.

•Researches on the mechanism of seismic wave propagation in low abundance gas reservoir and its recognition methods, Basic Research Program of China, 973 program;

•Researches on wave equations of heterogeneous fluid saturated porous media, cooperation program with Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration & Development

[1] Tian, YC; Ma, JW; Yang, HZ* (2010): Wavefield simulation in porous media saturated with two immiscible fluids, APPLIED GEOPHYSICS, 7(1): 57-65

[2] Liu, J; Ma, JW; Yang, HZ* (2009): The study of perfectly matched layer absorbing boundaries for SH wave fields , APPLIED GEOPHYSICS 6(3): 267-274

[3] Liu, J; Ma, JW; Yang, HZ* (2009): Research on dispersion and attenuation of P wave in periodic layered-model with patchy saturation, CHINESE JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICS- CHINESE EDITION, 52(11): 2879-2885

[4] Tian, YC; Mang, ZM; Ma, JW; Yang, HZ* (2009): Inversing physical parameter of two-phase viscoelastic media by homotopy method, CHINESE JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICS-CHINESE EDITION, 52(9): 2328-2334

[5] Ba, J; Lu, MH; Hu, B; Yang, HZ* (2008). The skeleton-relaxed model for poroviscoelastic media, CHINESE JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICS-CHINESE EDITION , 51(5): 1527-1537

[6] Mi, TL; Sun, BB; Yang, HZ* (2009): Adaptive mesh based on second generation wavelet simulation wave propagation for 2D acoustic wave equation, CHINESE JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICS-CHINESE EDITION, 52(11): 2862-2869

[7] Sun, BB; Ma, JW; Chauris, H; Yang, HZ* (2009): SOLVING WAVE EQUATIONS IN THE CURVELET DOMAIN: A MULTI-SCALE AND MULTI-DIRECTIONAL APPROACH, JOURNAL OF SEISMIC EXPLORATION, 18(4): 385-399

[8] Shan, H; Ma, JW; Yang, HZ* (2009) , Comparisons of wavelets, contourlets and curvelets in seismic denoising, JOURNAL OF APPLIED GEOPHYSICS, 69(2): 103-115