Biodata: Wen Zhang is an Associate Professor of College of Meteorology and Oceanography, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China. She received the B.S. degree in Physics from Central China Normal University (CCNU) in 2003. She received the Master degree and the Ph.D. degree in Optical Engineering from National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) in 2005 and 2012, respectively. She was a Joint Ph.D candidate in University of Leeds, UK from 2008 to 2010. Since 2012, She has been working as a lecturer in NUDT. She has been involved in many national projects. She also co-authored over 40 publications (journals and conferences), and has been a reviewer for journals and conferences, too. She is a member of Acoustical Society of China (ASC). Dr. Zhang’s current research mainly focused on underwater acoustics, ocean exploration and signal processing arising from ocean. She is particularly interested in exploring machine learning by exploiting acoustic and ocean data to get interesting outcomes. In recent years, she has been actively working on array signal processing, adaptive beamforming, interference suppression, signal detection and estimation, spectrum analysis, and time series analysis. She is also interested in aeroacoustics and holds a national patent in shot detection and counting. She also got the third prize in the 2018 National Teaching Competition.

Assoc. Prof. Yanqun Wu, College of Meteorology and Oceanography, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China
Biodata: Yanqun Wu is an Associate Professor of College of Meteorology and Oceanography, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China. She received the B.S. degree and the Ph.D. degree in Optical Engineering from National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) in 2004 and 2011, respectively. Since 2011, she has worked as a lecturer and then associate professor in NUDT. During 2015, she stayed at SiPLAB, University of Algarve, Portugal as a visiting scholar. She has published more than forty papers and has been a reviewer for IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Electronic Letters, ICSP, ICICSP etc. She has been involved in many national projects and her interests are on the detection and estimation problems for both scalar and vector sensor array signal processing and underwater acoustics.

Assoc. Prof. Yubo Qi, State Key Laboratory of Acoustics, Institute of Acoustics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Dr. Yubo Qi is now an associate professor and a master supervisor at the State Key Laboratory of Acoustics, Institute of Acoustics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He received the B.S. degree in Ocean Technology from Ocean University of China in 2010, and the Ph.D. degree in Acoustics from the Institute of Acoustics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2015. From 2013 to 2014, he was a joint training of doctoral student at the Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington. He was an associate professor in 2018. His research interests include source localization and detection in both shallow and deep ocean, geoacoustic inversion, and array signal processing. Dr. Qi has authored over thirty research papers and has been a reviewer for The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, JASA Express Letters, Applied Acoustics, etc. He was awarded the President Prize of Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Frontrunner 5000 Top Articles in Outstanding S&T Journal of China. His research was supported by over five scientific projects including two National Natural Science Foundation of China.

Assoc. Prof. Yan Wei, Zhejiang University, China