Liangjun Yan received his M.s. Degree from the China University of Geosciences Beijing (1991), and then joined the College of Petroleum and Resources, YU. In 1999-2002, he studied geophysics (EM) in Zhejiang University and received his PhD. He joined CEMI group under the supervisor, Professor Zhadanov, in the University of Utah as a visiting scholar from 2010 to 2011. He was the Dean of the College of Petroleum and Resources from 2008 to 2015. Now, he is the Chief Director of the Key Laboratory of Exploration Technologies for Oil and Gas Resources (Yangtze University), Ministry of Education, as well as the Director of the Key Laboratory of Geophysical Prospecting, CNPC.