Thiago Gabriel Monteiro received B.Sc. degree in naval architecture and maritime engineering from the University of São Paulo, Brazil, in 2013 and M.Sc. degree in Ship Design from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway, in 2016. He worked as a member of the Ship Design and Operations Laboratory, NTNU Ålesund, from 2014 to 2016. He was also a collaborator in the SFI MOVE project, from 2017 to 2020. From 2017 to 2021, he worked in the Intelligent Systems lab as a Ph.D. candidate. He received his Ph.D. degree in Engineering from NTNU in 2021 in the field of physiological sensor fusion in the maritime domain. He currently works as a software engineer at Dipai AS.
Houxiang Zhang is a full professor and director 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 a postdoctoral fellow and 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 the 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 2024.