Dr. Gang Yu is the Senior Technical Director of BGP’s Optical Science & Technology Division and Senior Technical Advisor to the President of BGP, providing technical support to BGP’s Optical Science & Technology Division and Non-Seismic Division. He provides technical advice to projects of microseismic monitoring of hydraulic fracturing operation, distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) VSP survey and 3D VSP imaging, integrated shale gas reservoir characterization, marine MMT and CSEM, land MT and TFEM, borehole-to-surface TFEM, etc.Dr. Gang Yu holds a B.Sc. (Exploration Geophysics) and a M.Sc. (Geophysical Instrumentation) from Chengdu University of Technology of China, and a Ph.D. (Applied Geophysics) from Macquarie University of Australia. He has more than 35 years of international experience of geophysics, petrophysics, marine MT and CSEM, borehole seismic and logging services for the petroleum applications, environment, groundwater and mining industry.

Ted is currently the Senior Advisor for Oil and Gas Technology in bp. He has led global multidisciplinary teams, both in research & technology development and also in geophysical operations, covering subsurface geophysics and topside digital AI / ML / Robotics / Autonomy. 

Currently, Ted created bp’s ‘Sustainable Seismic’ vision, chairs bp’s Marine Autonomy Working Group (MAWG), and is a member of the SprintRobotics Program Committee. His passion is to accelerate solutions to valuable business problems that also bridge the ‘adoption-chasm’.

Previous bp technology innovation work includes: ISS source blending, MAZ imaging, high density seismic sampling, nimble land node and Stryde start-up, ForeSite Machine Learning anomaly detection framework, and the first Sprint Robotics fitness trial.

Ted originally joined Western Geophysical in 1995, following a HDip in Computer Science (at UCC), MSc in Geophysics (at Durham University), and BSc in Geology (at UCD). He is NEBOSH OHS certified and is an active member of SEG and EAGE.