Dr Hao has worked on seismic anisotropy for over ten years. Before joining
CIPR in KFUPM, he was a postdoc at the Department of Geosciences and Petroleum in Norwegian University of Science and Technology, where he was supervised by Dr. Alexey Stovas (NTNU) and Dr. Tariq Alkhalifah (KAUST) to study various research problems on seismic anisotropy. He has published 18 papers in international peer-reviewed journals and presented over 20 expanded abstracts at international conferences such as EAGE, SEG, and IWSA.