Zhe Du received the B.Sc. degree in maritime administration in 2015 and the M.Sc. degree in transport information engineering and control in 2018 from the Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China. He is now a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Maritime and Transport Technology, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands. His research focuses on cooperative control of the physical-connected multi-vessel systems.