Chang Haichao, male, professor at the School of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Energy Power Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology. His research primarily focuses on intelligent ship design methods and knowledge engineering algorithms. He has successively led projects including the General Program and Young Scientists Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), as well as the Joint Fund (Young Talent) and Key Project (as sub-project leader) of the Ministry of Education. He has published over 20 SCI-indexed papers in journals such as Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems With Applications, holds 19 invention patents, and has received the First Prize for Higher Education (Postgraduate) Teaching Achievement Award of Hubei Province, the Special Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress from the Chinese Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, and the Inventor and Entrepreneur Award from the China Invention Association.