Jing Yan is a Professor with Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, China. His research interests cover in underwater intelligent system, swarm control of underwater vehicles, and intelligent sensing of underwater vehicles. Dr. Yan has led cutting-edge research with 100+ top-tier publications and supervised 70+ graduate students. Honored with China's NSF Excellent Youth Award and Hebei Province's Distinguished Youth Award, he was named a Maritime Power Young Scientist of China. Currently, he serves as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, IEEE Systems Journal, Ocean Engineering, IET Control Theory & Applications, and Wireless Networks. He has guided students to multiple best paper awards. Meanwhile, Dr. Yan directs key national research projects, and maintain teaching excellence in Automation for both undergraduate and graduate programs, while driving innovations in the intelligent detection, communication and control for underwater transportation systems.Xinping Guan is currently a Chair Professor with Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China. He is the leader of the prestigious innovative research team of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). His current research interests include industrial cyber-physical systems, wireless networking and applications in smart city and smart factory, and underwater sensor networks. He has authored and/or coauthored four research monographs, more than 270 papers in IEEE Transactions and other peer-reviewed journals, and numerous conference papers. Dr. Guan was a recipient of the Second Prize of the National Natural Science Award of China in 2008, the First Prize of the Natural Science Award from the Ministry of Education of China in both 2006 and 2016, the First Prize of the Technological Invention Award of Shanghai Municipal, China, in 2017, the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems Outstanding Paper Award in 2008, the National Outstanding Youth Honored by the NSF of China, and the Changjiang Scholar by the Ministry of Education of China. As a Principal Investigator, he has finished/been working on many national key projects.