Prof. Ning Wang

Dalian Maritime University

Ning Wang is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Marine Engineering, Dalian Maritime University, and the director of the Key Laboratory of Green Power Control and Testing for Intelligent Ships in Dalian. He has been selected as a Clarivate Analytics Global Highly Cited Scientist, Elsevier China Highly Cited Scholar, IMarEST/IET/ISCM/IIAV Fellow, Global Top 2% Top Scientist, Top 10 Talents of Liaoning Province, Young and Middle-aged Leading Talents of the Transportation Industry, Liaoning Province Xingliao Talent Program, and Dalian Jiejun. He is also one of the "Xingliao Talent Program" of Liaoning Province, a leading talent in the transportation industry, and a member of the Dalian Jieqing Youth Program. He has presided over more than 20 important scientific research projects, such as the key projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Basic Strengthening Program of the Central Military Science and Technology Commission. He was the first to propose self-learning control theory and technology for unmanned vessels in the world, and developed the “Zhihai” series of near-shallow sea monitoring unmanned vessels, which have achieved remarkable results in the fields of search and rescue at sea and ocean mapping and other applications, and have been selected as the major scientific and technological innovations in transportation for many times. He has published 5 academic books, more than 200 papers in authoritative SCI journals as the first or corresponding author, 42 papers in the top 1% of the world's most highly cited papers, which have been cited more than 11,200 times; he has obtained 49 authorized invention patents and 9 registered software copyrights. He has won 2 first prizes of China Offshore Engineering Science and Technology Award, the first prize of Technical Invention Award of China Nautical Society, the second prize of Liaoning Natural Science Award, Liaoning Youth Science and Technology Award, the first Youth Science and Technology Award of China Nautical Society, and the Youth Award of Scientific and Technological Innovation of China Communications and Transportation Association as the first complete authorization. He has been committed to promoting technological innovation and scientific research in the field of marine engineering for a long time. With his outstanding teaching and scientific research achievements, he was honored as "Excellent Graduate Tutor of Liaoning Province" in 2024.