Dr. Zhiyong Zhang is a senior engineer at the Zhejiang Institute of Hydraulics and Estuary. He completed his PhD in harbor, coastal, and offshore engineering at Ocean University of China in 2014. He recently led a project supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China. He has published 30 papers in various journals and serves as a reviewer for six English and Chinese journals. His research interests include hydrodynamics and local scour around offshore engineering structures.