Prof. Ping Dong is a Professor of Civil Engineering at the School of Engineering, University of Liverpool. He completed his PhD studies in Coastal Engineering at the Imperial College and was awarded a PhD and the Unwin Prize for the best PhD thesis in 1988. He has published over 100 papers in various journals, and serves as a HoD at both the University of Dundee (2008-2012) and University of Liverpool (2017-2022). His research has been funded through many grants from UKRI, EU, and NSFC. His teaching disciplines include coastal dynamics and hydrology and his interests include coastal dynamics, numerical modelling of coastal morphodynamics, and machine learning in predicting coastal processes.