Dr. Gao is a senior engineer and head of the Joint Research Center for Intelligent Ships. He graduated from Shanghai Maritime University majoring in power electronics and power transmission. His research interests include control technology and information control systems in the field of intelligent ships (unmanned ships, new energy ships, offshore platforms, etc.). He has published more than 30 papers, including 5 SCI retrieved papers, more than 10 invention patents, and more than 10 software Copyrights, and participated in the monograph "Ship Electric Propulsion System". He has presided over 1 National Natural Science Foundation project, participated in 3 National Natural Science Foundation projects, and more than 10 provincial and ministerial projects. He presided over/participated in more than 10 horizontal projects of enterprises and institutions. He won the First Prize in Shanghai Science and Technology Progress in 2016 (electric propulsion ship power control, power station control, and heading control technology and application) and Shanghai Science and Technology Progress Third Prize (Jiaxing Adacces configuration real-time industrial database software) in 2011.