Xianbo Xiang has a PhD, is a Professor, and is the Director of the Laboratory of Advanced Robotic Marine Systems (ARMs), School of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST). He received his BE and ME in Automatic Control and Marine Engineering from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan, China, in 2000 and 2003, respectively, and his PhD in Robotics from the University of Montpellier 2, Montpellier, France, in 2011. In 2006, he was an EU Erasmus Mundus Visiting Scholar with the SpaceMaster Project for three months. From 2008 to 2011, he was with the European Project FreeSubNet as an EC Marie Curie ESR Fellow with the Laboratoire d’ Informatique, de Robotique et de Microelectronique de Montpellier, CNRS UMR, Montpellier. His current research interests include robotics and marine vehicle systems.