Ning Dezhi is a Professor, Doctoral Supervisor, Vice Dean of the School of Civil Engineering, and Director of the State Key Laboratory of Coastal and Offshore Engineering at Dalian University of Technology. He completed his PhD studies in Port, Coastal and Offshore Engineering at Dalian University of Technology, and has been awarded honors including Winner of the National Excellent Young Scientist Fund (the first batch in 2012), Selected Member of the Ministry of Education's New Century Excellent Talents Program, Candidate of the "Hundred-Thousand-Ten Thousand Talents Project" (Hundred-Level) in Liaoning Province, and Leading Talent in Scientific and Technological Innovation of Liaoning Province's "Xingliao Talent Program", as well as being recognised as an Elsevier China Highly Cited Scholar and a Top 2% Global Scientist by Stanford University. He recently led research in the fields of marine engineering hydrodynamics and marine renewable energy conversion.