Ning Wang received his B. Eng. degree in Marine Engineering and the Ph.D. degree in control theory and engineering from the Dalian Maritime University, Dalian, China in 2004 and 2009, respectively. From September 2008 to September 2009, he was financially supported by China Scholarship Council to work as a joint-training PhD student at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. In view of his significant research at NTU, he received the Excellent Government-funded Scholars and Students Award in 2009. From August 2014 to August 2015, he worked as a Visiting Scholar at the University of Texas at San Antonio. His research interests include self-learning autonomy, unmanned (marine) vehicles, and autonomous systems. 

Dr. Wang was honored with the National High-level Talents Program for Young Top-notch Talents. He has published more than 200 SCI-indexed journal papers. He is a Fellow of IET, IMarEST, IIAV, and ISCM. He currently serves as Associate Editors of IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, IEEE Systems Journal, Journal of Field Robotics, Ocean Engineering, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, ISA Transactions, Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control, and IET Electronics Letters. He was recognized as the Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics, and the Highly Cited Chinese Researcher in Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering by Elsevier.