DePing Cao joined the Department of Hydraulic Engineering at Tongji University as a Research Professor, supported by the "Shanghai High-level Overseas Talent Introduction Program." From 2010 to 2014, he conducted doctoral research on the impact of seepage on flow field and sediment transport in a closed conduit at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, and obtained a doctoral degree in Hydraulic Engineering in June 2015. After submitting his doctoral thesis in 2014, he worked at Singapore Maritime Institute and National University of Singapore. Dr. Cao's research interests include wave-structure interaction, new wave energy converter, coastal protection, etc.