**About the Editors**

#### **Piotr Szymak**

Piotr Szymak (Professor) has been serving in Polish Naval Academy (PNA) in the following positions: assistant, lecturer, adjunct, head of department, assistant professor, associate professor. He was a director of Institute of Electrical Engineering and Automatics in PNA in the years 2015–2019. Since 2019 he has been Polish naval Captech National Cooridnator in European Defence Agency. In 2004 he received PhD degree in Polish Naval Academy and in 2016 he obtained the academic degree of habilitated doctor in Cracow University of Technology. His research area is strictly connected with modeling and control of marine objects, especially unmanned surface and underwater vehicles, including recently biomimetic underwater vehicles.

#### **Stanisław Hozy ´ ˙ n**

Stanisław Hozy˙ n (Assistant Professor) is an Engineering graduate, with a major in Electrical ´ Systems Operation, from the Polish Naval Academy. He earned his MA in Electro-Automation from the Faculty of Marine Electrical Engineering, Gdynia Maritime University, in 2010. He served on two Polish warships as a Control Engineer and an Electrical Group Commander for twelve years. Currently, he is a PhD holder from the Polish Naval Academy. His PhD focused on the control of unmanned underwater vehicles. He has been an Assistant Professor at the Department of Ship Automation since 2019. His main research interests include unmanned underwater vehicles and computer vision.

#### **Paweł Piskur**

Paweł Piskur (Head of Ship Automation Department) graduated from the Military University of Technology in Warsaw in 2004 with a master's degree in airplane studies. He subsequently worked in the Polish Army's Marine Aviation Base. In 2010 he received a PhD degree in mechanical engineering from the Koszalin University of Technology. Since 2017 he has been working at the Polish Naval Academy. His research area is strictly connected with unmanned underwater vehicles, especially biomimetic propulsion systems.
