Lecture 1 Title: Ship Intelligent Navigation: From Integrated Perception to Scene Reasoning
Time: July 13, 15:30
Venue: Maritime South Building, Room 1409
Speaker: Liu Wen

Speaker Biography:
Professor and doctoral supervisor at Wuhan University of Technology; national high-level young talent; high-level talent of Hubei Province; recipient of the Youth Science and Technology Award of the China Intelligent Transportation Association; core member of the Science and Technology Outstanding Contribution Team of the China Institute of Navigation. He received his bachelor's degree in mathematics from Wuhan University of Technology in 2009 and his Ph.D. from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2015. His main research interests include ship intelligent navigation and intelligent waterborne transportation systems. He serves as an editorial board member/guest editor for several important journals, including IET Intelligent Transport Systems and Information Fusion. He has led more than 10 projects, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China (3 projects), the Outstanding Youth Science Foundation of Hubei Province, the Key R&D Program of Hainan Province, and sub-projects under the National Key R&D Program. He has published over 100 papers in journals such as IEEE T-PAMI, IEEE T-ITS, IEEE T-VT, and IEEE T-II, including 14 ESI Highly Cited Papers and 2 ESI Hot Papers.

Abstract:
Given the complexity of the navigational environment and the diversity of ship encounter scenarios, the safety and reliability of ship navigation depend on the accurate and real-time perception of the navigational situation by onboard sensors. In response to these requirements, this talk will focus on the latest research achievements of our group in this field, including: (1) ship-side multi-sensor fusion perception; and (2) scene understanding and reasoning for ship navigation.

Lecture 2 Title: Marine Robotics and Adaptive Ocean Observation
Time: July 13, 16:30
Venue: Maritime South Building, Room 1409
Speaker: Zheng Huarong

Speaker Biography:
Distinguished Research Fellow and doctoral supervisor at the Ocean College, Zhejiang University; recipient of the Young Talent Lifting Project of the China Institute of Navigation. His main research directions are intelligent control of marine robots and adaptive ocean observation applications. His research outcomes include one English monograph on unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) as first/corresponding author, and over 28 papers in leading journals such as IEEE T-Cybernetics, IEEE TMECH, IEEE T-ITS, and IEEE T-SMC: Systems. His work on USVs has received the Third Prize of the Hubei Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award and the First Prize of the "Smart Port" Industrial Application Exhibition in the Netherlands, and has been covered by Dutch national newspapers and the Transport Research Centre of Delft University of Technology. He has also received Best Paper Awards at international conferences. He has led projects including the 173 Fund, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (General and Youth programs), and the Hainan Provincial Natural Science Foundation. He has participated in projects such as the Major Scientific Instrument Development Project of the National Natural Science Foundation, the National High-End Think Tank Special Project, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences Pioneer A Program. He has been invited to serve as a guest editorial board member for JASA (Journal of the Acoustical Society of America), a leading journal in acoustics, and as a youth editorial board member for the EI-indexed Journal of Transportation Engineering, the Chinese core journal Transportation Information and Safety, and Robot Learning. He also serves as the Publication Vice Chair for the 2025 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM2025) and the Registration Chair for the 4th China Vehicle Control and Intelligence Conference. and the session chair for "Unmanned Surface Vehicles" at the 15th European Control Conference and the 6th International Conference on Transportation Information and Safety. He is a committee member of the Predictive Control and Intelligent Decision-Making Committee of the Chinese Association of Automation, the Women in Science and Technology Committee of the Chinese Association of Automation, and the Youth Committee of the China Transportation Association.

Abstract:
The deepening implementation of the maritime power strategy has created an urgent demand for ocean observation with high spatiotemporal resolution and high dynamic responsiveness. This talk focuses on the frontier interdisciplinary direction of "Marine Robotics and Adaptive Ocean Observation," highlighting key technologies such as intelligent control, mobile observation, and adaptive adjustment of new-generation marine robots—including Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs) and Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs)—in complex marine environments. The talk will also explore how to integrate data-driven machine learning algorithms with classical predictive control theory to enable marine robots to build adaptive observation networks with the capability of "observing, learning, and optimizing simultaneously," thereby providing technical support for the future construction of unmanned operation and maintenance systems and precision perception networks in deep-sea environments.