夏英凯，1989年6月出生，华中科技大学博士，上海交通大学博士后，澳大利亚阿德莱德大学访问学者。研究领域为水下机器人、水下复杂系统与智能装备、水产养殖自动管控研究。主持国家自然科学基金、中国博士后自然科学基金、中央高校基本科研业务费项目等；作为项目骨干参与由国防科工局、国家科技部、国家自然科学基金委、军委科技委等委托的多项国家级、省部级重大课题。在机器人与海洋工程领域国内外重要期刊上发表论文二十余篇，授权专利及软件著作权十余项，荣获省部级科技进步二等奖一项。欢迎具有机器人、控制、计算机、机电、人工智能等领域相关背景的优秀学生加入。

Dr. Yingkai Xia received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2011 and 2017, respectively. He completed the post-doctor research in School of Naval Architecture, Ocean & Civil Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2019. From September 2018 to December 2018, he was a Visiting Scholar with School of Mechanical Engineering, in the University of Adelaide, Australia. He is currently hired as associate professor in College of Engineering, Huazhong Agricultural University. His current research interests include design of underwater vehicle, dynamic modeling and adaptive control of complex nonlinear underwater systems, ocean engineering, and aquaculture. In the past several years, he leaded or participated in many industrial projects in the field of underwater system development, such as large underwater parallel platform, remotely operated underwater vehicle, autonomous underwater vehicle, and autonomous aquaculture systems.