Hongliu Zeng is a research professor for the Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin. He earned his B.S. (1982) and M.S. (1985) in Geology from the Petroleum University of China and his Ph.D. (1994) in Geophysics from the University of Texas at Austin. His research interests include seismic sedimentology, seismic interpretation, and machine learning, applied to petroleum exploration and production. He won the Pratt Memorial Award [The best paper published in the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Bulletin] from AAPG in 2005.