Summary
Li Yingping is an accomplished geophysicist and adjunct professor with over 30 years of research and industry experience and nine years noted in technical/engineering roles reflected on GitHub. He leads applied R&D as Chief Scientist at BlueSkyDas LLC while teaching at the University of Houston, bridging academic insight with commercial deployment of DAS-VSP and borehole seismic technologies. Former senior roles at Shell and Baker Hughes saw him develop and operationalize 3D VSP/ DAS imaging, salt-proximity methods, and tomography used for subsurface delineation and production decision-making. His background spans foundational seismology research at MIT and international experience from China to the U.S., giving him deep expertise in seismic signal processing, velocity analysis, and source characterization. Comfortable coding in Python/Flask for back-end solutions, he combines field-scale geophysical problem solving with software-enabled workflows to move complex subsurface methods into practical use. Colleagues describe him as a teacher-scientist who turns advanced theory into operational tools and courses that train the next generation of borehole seismic practitioners.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Seismology, Master of Science - MS, Seismology at Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences & institute of Geophysics, CEA, Beijing
Bachelor's degree, Geophysics, Bachelor's degree, Geophysics at University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Geophysics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Geophysics at Stony Brook University, Long Island, NY, USA