Prof. Dr. Yan Bao was born in 1977 in Inner Mongolia. He received his Ph.D. in structural engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2011. From 2012 to 2014, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow in fluid mechanics at Peking University. He then moved to Imperial College London in 2014, where he served as a research associate in aeronautics until 2016. He is currently a researcher in the Department of Civil Engineering, School of Shipbuilding, at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His research topics mainly include the following: structural wind engineering and wind environment simulation methods; flow–solid coupling mechanics modeling with high-precision algorithms; flow control and resistance reduction methods; and the characteristics of blunt body structures and vortex-induced vibrations.