Sam-Sang You received a B.E. in Marine Engineering from Pukyong National University, Busan, South Korea, in 1983, an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA, in 1991, and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Iowa State University, USA, in 1994. Since 1995, he has been with the Division of Mechanical Engineering at Korea Maritime and Ocean University, Busan, South Korea, where he is currently a Full Professor. He also serves as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Mechatronics Engineering at Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City (VNU-HCM), Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (HCMUT) or Bach Khoa, Vietnam. His research interests include nonlinear systems, optimal control, operations research, decision support systems based on control theory, deep learning, physical AI, quantum computing, multi-agent systems, and computer vision, with a particular focus on multi-object detection and tracking.