Jianwei Ma is a Boya Distinguished Professor at the School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, and the director of the Artificial Intelligence Geoscience Center at Peking University. He completed his undergraduate studies in Engineering Mechanics at Dalian University of Technology in 1998 and obtained his Ph.D. in Solid Mechanics from Tsinghua University in 2002. From 2006 to 2010, he was employed as a lecturer and associate professor at the School of Aerospace Engineering, Tsinghua University. From 2010 to 2011, he was a Scientist with Florida State University. He has been a postdoctoral and visiting researcher with the University of Grenoble, the University of Cambridge, the University of Goettingen, EPFL, the Ecole des Mines de Paris, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of California at Los Angeles, etc. After 2011, he was a Professor with the Department of Mathematics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China. He was PI for NSFC, national key research and development program, etc.. His interdisciplinary research focuses on exploration geophysics, applied mathematics, and artificial intelligence, including signal sparse representation, deep learning, seismic signal processing, and inverse problems. He publised about 100 papers in journals, e.g., Geophysics, Reivews of Geophysics, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, PNAS, SIAM J. Comput. Sci. His papers have been cited more than 6300 times according to Google Scholar. He is associated editor for IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.
