 | Prof. Ning WangDalian Maritime University, China Ning Wang is a recipient of the National Ten Thousand Talents Program for Young Top-Notch Talents. He currently serves as a Leading Talent and Young Top-Notch Talent of Liaoning Province’s "Xingliao Talent Plan," and has been awarded the Dalian Distinguished Youth Science Fund. He is also recognized as a candidate at the hundred-tier level of Liaoning Province’s "Hundred-Thousand-Ten Thousand Talent Project." As a Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher and an Elsevier Highly Cited Chinese Researcher, Ning Wang enjoys a high reputation in the academic community. Additionally, he is a Fellow of three major international professional societies: IET, ISCM, and IIAV. His primary research areas include intelligent marine robotics (surface unmanned vessels, underwater robots, unmanned aerial vehicles), green intelligent ships (perception and decision-making, navigation control, marine machinery intelligence, new energy hybrid power control), and marine artificial intelligence (marine environmental perception, cross-domain marine swarms, complex ship systems), where he has established profound academic expertise and influence. |
 | Prof. Weinan GaoNortheastern University, China Professor and doctoral supervisor at the State Key Laboratory of Integrated Automation for Process Industry, Northeastern University; IEEE Senior Member; recipient of the National Youth Talent Program; high-level talent of Shenyang City; visiting professor at the Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory in Boston, USA. Previously served as Assistant Professor and doctoral supervisor at Florida Institute of Technology and as Assistant Professor at the University of South Georgia, USA. He has long been engaged in fundamental theoretical research in artificial intelligence, adaptive dynamic programming, optimal control, and output regulation, with applied research focusing on intelligent connected vehicles, autonomous driving, and power systems. He has published over 40 papers in international journals, including 3 ESI highly cited papers. |