Dr. Zhiming Yuan has been a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) (2015-2019) and then a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) (2019- ) in the Department of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering at the University of Strathclyde at Glasgow. His research activity mainly focused on the Marine Hydrodynamics and Offshore Renewable Energy, and he has published more than 100 journal/conference articles on these areas. Dr Yuan is currently acting as the Scientific Managing Editor for Ocean Engineering, Applied Ocean Research, Coastal Engineering, and Marine Structures. He is an ITTC committee member and executive chair of ITTC Maneuvering Committee. He was invited by Prof. Ronald Yeung to carry out joint research at UC Berkeley (05/2017 – 09/2017) under Sir David Anderson Bequest Award. He is currently leading the Hydrodynamics and Ocean Renewable Energy Laboratory (HOREL) at Strathclyde, acting as the first supervisor of 9 PhD students. His research work on wave interference has been selected as Focus on Fluids article of Journal of Fluid Mechanics and highlighted by Nature (Nature. 565(7741):538), and these works have also been widely reported by TheTimes, DailyMail, Today Headline, ScienceNews, etc. In 2022, Dr Zhiming Yuan shared the Ig Nobel prize in the field of Physics for “trying to understand how ducklings manage to swim in formation”. 

Eduardo Aoun Tannuri Full Professor at the Department of Mechatronics Engineering, Escola Politécnica, University of São Paulo (EPUSP), principal investigator of the Center for Artificial Intelligence (C4AI USP-IBM-FAPESP) and coordinator of the Maneuvering Simulation Center of the Numerical Offshore Tank (TPN-USP). Member of ITTC Maneuvering Committee (2012-2021). Works on Autonomous Navigation and Control Systems applied to offshore vessels and platforms, Application of IA in Ocean Engineering, Maneuvering and Sea-keeping simulators, with applications to ports, vessels and floating structures design. He was graduated in Mechatronics Engineering, in 1998, and completed his doctorate degree in 2002, both at EPUSP. He coordinates several R&D projects in the area of offshore oils&gas exploration, maritime and river navigation and port development. He has published about 188 papers in conferences and 42 in journals. As the technical coordinator of the Maneuvering Simulation Center of the Numerical Offshore Tank (TPN), he already developed more than 190 simulation studies in different Oil Companies and Ports Operators. He received Brazilian Navy Engineering Merit Award 2017, and National Agency for Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels Innovation Prize 2019.

Professor Atilla Incecik is Associate Principal at the university of Strathclyde. Professor Incecik has been responsible for the development of design and analysis tools and model testing of marine and offshore engineering systems during his research activities both in industry and academia. His current research includes development of dynamic load and response prediction tools for ships, offshore platforms and marine renewable energy devices. Professor Incecik is Research Manager of Industrial Doctoral Centre for Offshore Renewable Energy (IDCORE). He is a member of committees of a number of international professional bodies, an honorary professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Harbin Institute of Technology, and a visiting professor at Zhejiang University. Professor Incecik is Editor-in-Chief of Ocean Engineering Journal.