Prof. Dr. Yuanqiao Wen is the deputy director of the Intelligent Transportation System Research Center and the deputy director of the National Water Transportation Safety Engineering and Technology Research Center at Wuhan University of Technology. He received his B.S. degree and M.S. degree from the School of Navigation, Wuhan University of Technology, in 1997 and 2002, respectively. In 2006, he received his Ph.D. degree from the School of Computer Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology. In addition, he was a visiting scholar at UNBC in Canada and a senior visiting scholar at TU Delft in the Netherlands. His research interests mainly include water transportation safety and environment protection, unmanned systems (unmanned surface vehicles), and artificial intelligence for water transportation applications.