Xianbo Xiang, Professor, Ph.D. Supervisor, Director of Laboratory of Advanced Robotic Marine Systems (ARMs), School of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST).

His research interests include robotics and marine surface/underwater vehicle. From September 2006 to December 2006, he was an EU Erasmus Mundus Visiting Scholar in the SpaceMaster Project. From February 2008 to March 2011, he was in the European Project FreeSubNet as an EC Marie Curie ESR Fellow at LIRMM, CNRS UMR 5506. Currently, he leads the research Lab of ARMs and builds international collaborative connections with researchers in UK, France, Croatia, USA, etc.

He received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in automatic control and marine engineering from HUST, Wuhan, China, in 2000 and 2003, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in System Automation and Mirco-electronics from the University of Montpellier 2, Montpellier, France, in 2011.

He is member of IFAC Technical Committee 7.2 on Marine Systems, IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society and IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. He serves as the guest editors for International Journal of Intelligent Robotics and Applications, International Journal of Fuzzy Systems, and Indian Journal of Geo-marine science.