Andrzej Rak received an M.Sc. in marine electrical engineering (1988) and a Ph.D. in automatic control (2022), both from the Gdynia Maritime University (GMU), Poland. Since 1989, he has been successively an assistant and a senior lecturer with the Department of Ship Automation, GMU. He has also worked as an electrical officer for a few shipping companies. Currently, he serves as an assistant professor with the Department of Ship Automation at GMU. He has coauthored more than 50 scientific contributions. His research interests include ship motion control systems, autonomous marine vehicles, and the application of AI in ship motion control.