Handong Tan was born in Hubei Province, China, in 1966. He received a B.S. degree from the Changchun Institute of Geology, Changchun, China, in 1988, and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in geophysics from the China University of Geosciences, Beijing, China, in 1991 and 2000, respectively. He is currently a professor with the Institute of Geophysics and Information Technology, China University of Geosciences, Beijing. Over the years, he has undertaken numerous research projects supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Ministry of Natural Resources of the People’s Republic of China. His research interests include 3D joint inversion, time-lapse inversion, fast geophysical calculation and integrated geophysical interpretation.