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Office: 
Room 340, 3/F, Science Centre
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Arthur CHENG C. H. 鄭傳漢

Adjunct Professor
 
Education:
  • Sc.D., Geophysics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1978
  • B.Sc. (with Distinction), Engineering Physics, Cornell University, 1973
 
Academic Employments:
  • 2012 – present: Adjunct Professor, EESC, CUHK
  • 2014 – 2021: Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, National University of Singapore
  • 1983 – 1996: Principal Research Scientist, Earth Resources Laboratory, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, MIT.
 
Research Fields and Current Research Interests:
  • Rock Physics
  • Quantitative Reservoir Characterization
  • Acoustic Logging
  • Geomechanics 
  • Urban and Near Surface Geophysics
 
Honours and Awards:
  • 2013: Life Membership, Society of Exploration Geophysicists
  • 2015: Society of Petrophysicists and Log Analysts: Distinguish Technical Achievement Award
  • 2016: Society of Petroleum Engineer: SPE Formation Evaluation Award
  • 2021: Honorary Membership, Society of Exploration Geophysicists
  • 2022: Honorary Fellow, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
 
Professional Activities:
Current
  • Editor in Chief, Geophyscis
  • President-Elect, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 2022-23
  • President, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 2023-24
Past
  • 2004 – 2008: Visiting Committee, MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
  • 2007 – 2009: Board of Directors, SEG SEAM, 2007 – 2008: vice chair, 2009: chair
  • 1995 – 1996: Member, Ocean Drilling Program JOIDES Downhole Measurements Panel
  • 1994 – 1995: Member, Panel on the Review of Oil Recovery Demonstration Program of DOE, National Research Council
  • 1997 – 1999: Member, Ocean Drilling Program JOIDES Scientific Measurements Panel
 
Books:
  • Paillet, F.L., and C.H. Cheng, Acoustic Waves in Boreholes, 264 p., CRC Press, Florida, 1991
  • Tang, X.M., and A.C.H. Cheng, Quantitative Acoustic Logging Methods, Elsevier, 2004
 
Selected Recent Publications:
  1. Cheng, Arthur, Can We Ever Trust the Shear Wave Log, The Leading Edge, 278-284, 2015
  2. Too, Jun Lin, A. Cheng and P. Linga, Fracturing methane hydrate in sand, a review of current status, OTCAsia, OTC-28292, 2018
  3. Li, Yunyue Elita, Y. Du, J. Yang, A. Cheng, and X. Fang, Elastic reverse time migration using acoustic propagators, Geophysics, 83, 5, S399-S408, 2018
  4. Ma, Joseph H.Y., Y.E. Li, and A. Cheng, Dependency of flow and transport properties on aperture distributions and compression states, Geophysical Prospecting, 67 (4), 900 – 912, 2019
  5. You, Nan, Y.E. Li, and A. Cheng, Shale anisotropy model building based on deep neural networks, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 125 (2), e2019JB019042. https://doi.org/10.1029/ 2019JB019042, 2020