Zeyuan Shao earned his Ph.D. degree in transport information engineering and control in 2025 from Dalian Maritime University, Dalian 116026, China. From August 2023 to August 2024, he was a Visiting Ph.D. Student at the Centre for Marine Technology and Ocean Engineering (CENTEC), University of Lisbon. He is currently a Lecturer at Zhejiang Ocean University. His research interests include intelligent navigation systems for maritime autonomous surface ships and unmanned surface vehicles, maritime situational awareness, multi-sensor information fusion, computer vision, pattern recognition, and artificial intelligence.