Jing Yan is a Professor and Doctoral Supervisor with Yanshan University. His research interests cover in the localization, networking and cooperation control for underwater network systems. He received the Excellent Youth Project for NSF of China, the Distinguished Youth Project for NSF of Hebei Province, the Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of Hebei Province, and the Second Prize of Natural Science of Hebei Province. He was also honored as the young scientists of maritime power and Yanzhao. Currently, he is a Senior Member of IEEE and the Chinese Society of Automation. He serves as the Associate/Young Editors of some journals, e.g., IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Ocean Engineering, IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, IEEE Systems Journal, IET Control Theory & Applications, Control Theory and Applications, Control and Decision, Robot, and Underwater Unmanned Systems. In recent years, he has authored over 80 referred international journal and conference papers, such as IEEE TAC and IEEE JOE. Meanwhile, he is also the inventor of seventeen patents. In addition, he guided students to win the first prize in the IEEE/OES Chinese Ocean Acoustics H2O Competition, the runner up in the World University Underwater Robot Competition, the Most Popular Work Award at the Chinese Control and Decision Conference, the Best Student Paper Award and the IEEE CYBER Conference, and the Best Paper Award and the CAIBDA Conference.