Digital Twins for Vessel Life Cycle Service: Innovation in Maritime Industry

1. Houxiang Zhang is a full professor and the leader of Intelligent Systems Laboratory, at the Department of Ocean Operations and Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He received his Ph.D. degree on Mechanical and Electronic Engineering in 2003. From 2004, he worked as Postdoctoral fellow, senior researcher at the Institute of Technical Aspects of Multimodal Systems (TAMS), Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences, University of Hamburg, Germany. In Feb. 2011, he finished the Habilitation on Informatics at University of Hamburg. Dr. Zhang joined the NTNU, Norway in April 2011 where he is a full Professor on Mechatronics. From 2011 to 2016, Dr. Zhang also hold a Norwegian national GIFT Professorship on product and system design funded by Norwegian Maritime Centre of Expertise. He was nominated and selected as a member of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences in 2019, and a member of Academy of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters in Jan 2024. Dr. Zhang has engaged into several research topics including control, optimization, digitalization, and AI application especially on autonomous vehicle. He has applied for and coordinated more than 30 projects supported by Norwegian Research Council (NFR), German Research Council (DFG), EU, and industry. In these areas, he has published over 300 journal and conference papers as author or co-author. Dr. Zhang has received five best paper awards, and six finalist awards for best conference paper at International conference on Robotics and Automation.

2. Guoyuan Li is a full professor at the Department of Ocean Operations and Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Institute of Technical Aspects of Multimodal Systems, Department of Informatics, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, in 2013. Since 2014, he has been with the Intelligent Systems Laboratory, Department of Ocean Operations and Civil Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Ålesund, Norway. He became an associate professor of ship intelligence, and further promoted to full professor at Department of Ocean Operations and Civil Engineering, NTNU, Ålesund, Norway in 2018 and 2021, respectively. Dr. Li has published more than 140 papers in the areas of his research interests which include locomotion control of bioinspired robots, digitalization, simulation and modelling, eye tracking analysis, and artificial intelligence and optimization algorithms in marine operation. Dr. Li has received two best paper award and two finalist award at IEEE international conferences.

1. Houxiang Zhang 是挪威科技大學工程學院海洋作業與土木工程系的全職教授及智能系統實驗室的負責人。他於2003年獲得機械與電子工程的博士學位。自2004年起，他在德國漢堡大學數位科學系的多模態系統技術方面研究所（TAMS）擔任博士後研究員及高級研究員。2011年2月，他在漢堡大學完成了資訊學的資格認證（Habilitation）。Zhang 博士於2011年4月加入挪威科技大學，擔任機電一體化的全職教授。從2011年到2016年，Zhang 博士還擔任挪威國家GIFT教授，專注於產品與系統設計，該職位由挪威海事專業中心資助。他於2019年被提名並選為挪威科技學院的成員，並於2024年1月成為挪威皇家科學與文學學會的成員。Zhang 博士參與了多個研究主題，包括控制、優化、數位化及人工智慧應用，特別是在自動駕駛車輛方面。他申請並協調了超過30個由挪威研究委員會（NFR）、德國研究委員會（DFG）、歐盟及產業支持的項目。在這些領域，他作為作者或共同作者發表了超過300篇期刊和會議論文。Zhang 博士獲得了五項最佳論文獎，以及在國際機器人與自動化會議上獲得的六項最佳會議論文決賽獎。

2. Guoyuan Li 是挪威科技大學工程學院海洋作業與土木工程系的全職教授。他於2013年在德國漢堡大學多模態系統技術方面研究所獲得計算機科學的博士學位。自2014年以來，他一直在挪威科技大學（NTNU）海洋作業與土木工程系的智能系統實驗室工作。他於2018年和2021年分別晉升為船舶智能的副教授及全職教授。Li 博士在其研究興趣領域發表了超過140篇論文，這些領域包括仿生機器人的運動控制、數位化、模擬與建模、眼動追蹤分析，以及海洋作業中的人工智慧與優化算法。Li 博士在IEEE國際會議上獲得了兩項最佳論文獎和兩項決賽獎。