Education

• B.Sc. in Geophysics, Peking University, China
• Ph.D. in Geosciences, University of Texas at Dallas

Research Interests

• Ground-penetrating radar: Software, hardware, data collection and processing.

Publications

• Xiaoxian Zeng and George A. McMechan, 2006; Two methods for determining geophone rotations for VSP data,: Accepted by Geophysics.
• Zeng, X., McMechan, G.A., Bhattacharya, J.P., Aiken, C.L.V., Xu, X., Hammon III, W.S., and Corbeanu, R. M., 2004; 3-D imaging of a reservoir analog in point bar deposits in the Ferron Sandstone, Utah, using ground-penetrating radar: Geophysical Prospecting, 52, 151-163
• Xiaoxian Zeng and George A. McMechan, 2001; Load balancing across a highly heterogeneous processor cluster using file status probes :Computers and Geosciences, 28, 911-918.
• Hammon III, W. S., Zeng, X., Corbeanu, R. M., and McMechan, G. A., 2002; Estimation of the spatial variability of fluid permeability from surface and borehole GPR data and cores, with a 2-D example from the Ferron Sandstone, Utah: Geophysics, 67, 1505-1515.
• Xu, X., Aiken, C.L.V., Corbeanu, R.M., Zeng, X., McMechan, G.A., and Bhattacharya, J.P., High accuracy 3-D digital integration, visualization and analysis of geologic data: Reservoir characterization of the Ferron Sandstone, Utah, submitted to Geophysics.
• Corbeanu, R.M., Wizevich, M.C., Bhattacharya, J.P., Zeng, X., and McMechan, G.A., Three-dimensional architecture of ancient lower delta-plain point bars using ground penetrating-radar, Cretaceous Ferron Sandstone, Utah, in press.
• McMechan, G.A., Loucks, R.G., Mescher, P., Zeng., X., 2002; Characterization of a coalesced, collapsed paleocave reservoir analog using GPR and well-core data: Geophysics 67, 1148-1158.
• Hammon III, W. S., McMechan, G. A., Zeng, X., 2000; Forensic GPR: Finite difference simulation of responses from buried human remains: Journal of Applied Geophysics, 45, 171-186.
• Zeng, X., McMechan, G. A., Xu, T., 2000, Synthesis of amplitude-versus-offset variations in ground-penetrating radar data: Geophysics, 65,113-125.
• McMechan, G. A., Loucks, R. G., Zeng, X., and Mescher, P., 1998, Ground penetrating radar imaging of a collapsed paleocave system in the Ellenburger dolomite, central Texas: Journal of Applied Geophysics, 39 (1998) pp. 1-10.
• Zeng, X., McMechan, G. A., 1997, GPR Characterization of buried tanks and pipes: Geophysics, 62, 797-806.
• Zeng, X., McMechan, G. A., Cai, J., and Chen, H. W., 1995, Comparison of ray and Fourier methods for modeling monostatic ground-penetrating radar profiles: Geophysics, 60, 1727-1734.

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