😺 About Me

Hi, I’m Qi Pang, a third-year Master’s student at Xi’an Jiaotong University, where I am fortunate to be supervised by Prof. Jinghuai Gao. Before that, I received my Bachelor’s degree from Shenyang Aerospace University.

My research interests include inverse problems, generative modeling, and geological modeling, with a particular focus on developing physics-informed generative models for geoscience.

🚀 I am currently seeking Ph.D. opportunities starting in Fall 2026, and I’m always happy to explore academic collaborations aligned with my research interests.

🔍 Topics I’m Excited About

Subsurface geoscience with generative models
(grounded in geophysical principles)
Geological modeling with realistic priors
(e.g., geostatistical simulation methods)
Inversion guided by multi-source information
(e.g., physics-informed machine learning)

🛠 Ongoing Research

This is my first step 🚀
The end goal? A Stable Diffusion for Earth sciences 🌍
Current progress: patiently teaching generative models to understand geology 🪨😄

If you’re working on related problems—or think my background could contribute to your group or project—I’d love to connect. Feel free to reach out at: 📧 pangjiutian@gmail.com

📝 Publications

Current Research Topics: Generative Models/Geological Modeling

With the rapid progress of machine learning, high-quality training data has become essential. Yet in geophysics, sensitive data and the lack of open datasets pose major challenges. This drives my research in geological modeling, aiming to create realistic subsurface representations as priors and synthetic training data. My research extends from numerical simulation to generative AI, seeking to create diverse and realistic datasets that can support a wide range of geophysical applications.

Previous Research Topics: Seismic Impedance Inversion/Transformer/CNN

My research journey began during my Master’s studies, focusing on seismic impedance inversion. Over time, my work progressed from TV to more adaptive structural constraints, from 1D to 2D inversion with improved lateral continuity, and from traditional model-driven approaches to deep learning methods with stronger nonlinear representation capabilities—ranging from CNNs to globally-aware Transformers. These experiences not only deepened my understanding of inverse problems but also fueled my motivation to further explore the underlying methodologies.

TGRS 2025

Iterative Gradient Corrected Semi-Supervised Seismic Impedance Inversion via Swin Transformer

Qi Pang, Hongling Chen, Jinghuai Gao, et al.

Paper | GitHub

💻 Research Experience

Software

Seisvis - Seismic Data Visualization Library

A simple and easy-to-use Python library for seismic data visualization, designed for geophysicists and seismic data analysts.

GitHub

Experiment Real-World Time-Shifted Seismic Data Generation

Accurate labeling is critical for deep learning methods in seismic exploration. However, inconsistencies in time-depth relationships often lead to misalignment between well logs and seismic data, resulting in suboptimal training outcomes. This project serves as a precursor for time-shift estimation, aiming to simulate realistic time-shifted seismic data. By leveraging time-depth relationships, we generate large-scale pairs of synthetic time-shifted seismic data to provide high-quality training samples for subsequent deep learning models focused on time-shift estimation.

Experiment Model driven Seismic Inversion with Structural Regularization

I implemented a seismic convolution forward modeling algorithm in MATLAB and generated synthetic seismic data based on the Marmousi model. Seismic dip estimation was performed using both structure tensor eigenvalue decomposition and PWD. Results demonstrate that PWD is more robust in capturing dominant geological trends, while the structure tensor approach is less stable under noise. A structure-oriented smoothing operator was constructed from the dip estimates. Finally, a structure-constrained inversion objective function was formulated and solved using FISTA to obtain the least-squares solution.

📖 Educations

2023.09 - Now

Master, Xi'an Jiaotong University

Supervisor: Prof. Jinghuai Gao

2019.09 - 2023.06

Bachelor, Shenyang Aerospace University

Supervisor: Prof. Qizhi Fang

📄 CV

📥 Download CV

🎮 Hobbies

When I’m not coding or running simulations, I like to relax (or compete!) through games and sports:

🪓 Don’t Starve Together – 1000+ hours in the wilderness (and I love eating Meatballs!)
⚔️ League of Legends – Chill ARAM grinder / tryhard Top & Jungle main
🏓 Table Tennis – Big fan of ping pong! Always up for a quick match
🎲 Also enjoy co-op survival, strategy games, and quirky indie titles

Let’s play sometime!
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