Weicheng Cui is a “National Outstanding Science and Technology Worker” (2010). He was named “China’s Top 10 Stars of Science” by Nature magazine in 2016. He received his bachelor’s degree in Solid Mechanics from Tsinghua University in 1986, and his Ph.D. in Structural Reliability from the University of Bristol in 1990. In February 1993, he returned to China and was appointed as Senior Engineer by China Ship Scientific Research Center (CSSRC), and was promoted to researcher professor and tutor for doctoral students in 1995, and was appointed as deputy dean of the School of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering of Shanghai Jiaotong University in 1999. In 2002, he was appointed by China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (CSIC) as the Director of China Ship Scientific Research Center (CSSRC), and served as the overall and integrated project leader of “Jiaolong” and the first deputy chief designer. In 2013, he joined Shanghai Ocean University to create the first hadal science and technology research center in domestic universities in China. He has now joined Westlake University full-time and has been appointed as Chair Professor of Deep Sea Technology and Director of the Deep Sea Technology Research Center of Westlake University. He is now leading a team to carry out the development of a bionic intelligent robotic fish-type submersible and cutting-edge basic research on the unified theory of complex systems.