Dr. Meng Zhang currently works as an Assistant Researcher and Master's Supervisor at the Yantai Research Institute, Harbin Engineering University, China. He obtained a Bachelor's degree in Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering at Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, a Master's degree in Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering and a Ph.D. in Ship and Marine Structure Design and Manufacturing at Harbin Engineering University. He also completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Power Engineering and Engineering Thermophysics at the same university. His main research directions are health monitoring of ships and marine structures, load identification and its engineering application, inverse finite element method and its engineering application, machine learning and digital intelligence, environmental load and structural analysis, etc.