Professor Dapeng Li is a distinguished scholar in aquaculture at Huazhong Agricultural University. He serves as an expert on the Advisory Committee of the FAO Aquaculture Ecological Center and contributes to the China Agriculture Research System as a Position Scientist. His research specializes in fish environmental physiology and aquaculture engineering, with the ecological aquaculture technologies he developed being incorporated into China's National Agricultural Extension Techniques. He obtained a doctoral degree in Aquaculture from Huazhong Agricultural University in 2003. From 2006 to 2008, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Science. From 2010 to 2011, he was a visiting scholar fellow at the Hopkins Marine Station, Standford University. Currently, he spearheads the integration of artificial intelligence into aquaculture operations and advances strategic smart aquaculture and water resource management for sustainable aquaculture development.