Prof. Dr. Junliang Gao is a professor and the head of the Department of Ocean Engineering at the School of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology. He was selected into "The Qing-Lan Project" of Jiangsu Province. In May 2015, he graduated from the State Key Laboratory of Coastal and Offshore Engineering of the Dalian University of Technology with a doctor's degree in Engineering. He is a member of the China Shipbuilding Engineering Society, the China Navigation Society, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and other academic organisations. Since the graduate student stage, he has been engaged in research on the basic theory of ocean engineering, including harbour resonance, island and reef hydrodynamics, tsunami waves, the development of wave propagation evolution models, fluid–solid interactions based on computational fluid dynamics (CFD), etc. He has published more than 60 papers (including more than 40 SCI papers and more than 10 EI papers) in Chinese and English academic journals, such as Coastal Engineering, Renewable Energy, Energy Conversion and Management, Ocean Engineering, and Engineering Mechanics, and has applied for more than 20 patents (7 have been authorised). He served as the communication review expert of the NSFC and as a reviewer of more than 20 journals at home and abroad, such as Coastal Engineering, Ocean Modeling, Ocean Engineering, and the Journal of Computational Science.