Prof. Weidong Zhang

Hainan University, China

Biography: Weidong Zhang received his Bachelor's, Master's, and Ph.D. degrees from Zhejiang University. He is currently a Chair Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, a recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, a German Humboldt Fellow, a Shanghai Outstanding Academic Leader, a Jiangsu Province Innovation and Entrepreneurship Talent, a Hainan Province High-level Talent (Category B), and an Elsevier Highly Cited Researcher. He is the Director of the Shanghai University Ship Automation Engineering Research Center and the Director of the Engineering Research Center of Marine Intelligent Systems, Ministry of Education. His research interests include intelligent control theory and artificial intelligence theory, as well as their applications in marine unmanned systems. He has published one English monograph, over 200 SCI-indexed papers, and filed 62 national invention patents.