Dr Myo Zin Aung is a Research Fellow at the Maritime Safety Research Centre, University of Strathclyde, UK. He joined Strathclyde as a Research Associate in 2021 and became a Research Fellow in 2024. He holds a PhD (2021) and MEng (2018) in Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering from Osaka University, Japan, a BEng in Naval Architecture from Myanmar Maritime University (2015), and a postgraduate certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education from Strathclyde. His research spans marine hydrodynamics, computational fluid dynamics, ship design optimisation, autonomous ship control, maritime decarbonisation and shipyard digitalisation. His contributions include published studies on ship manoeuvring in adverse weather and hydrodynamic optimisation, and a design configurator for fast zero-emission battery-electric vessels. He has contributed to TrAM, ShipFC, HySHIP and EcoShipYard and led projects on shallow-water propulsion and shipyard digitalisation.