Yongbo Zhang is an associate professor at the School of Aeronautical Science and Engineering, Beihang University, and a distinguished researcher at the Ningbo Innovation Institute of Beihang University. He received his Bachelor’s degree and doctorate in engineering mechanics from Beihang University in 2006 and 2011, respectively. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beihang University, from 2011 to 2013. He stayed at the school to teach in August 2013. From 2015 to 2016, he was a visiting scholar at the School of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, USA. In 2018, he was supported by the “Outstanding Talent Program” of Beihang University. His research interests include structural safety and reliability, filtering and information fusion, intelligent aircraft technology, and artificial intelligence. He has currently presided over two national-level projects such as the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Science and Technology Project Fund of the Military Commission Science and Technology Commission; five provincial and ministerial-level funds such as the Beijing Natural Science Foundation and Aerospace Science and Technology Innovation Fund; and more than ten related horizontal scientific research projects such as the China Academy of Space Technology; and participated in more than ten 973 projects, general assembly pre-research, aviation funds, national key and engineering application horizontal projects.