Huachao Dong is Associate Professor at the School of Marine Science and Technology at Northwestern Polytechnical University, China. His research includes underwater vehicle design, digital design, multidisciplinary optimization, digital twins for underwater vehicles and data-driven global optimization, with over 50 peer-reviewed papers and 1 book published. Peng Wang is Professor at the School of Marine Science and Technology at Northwestern Polytechnical University, China. His research focuses on surrogate-based design optimization, multidisciplinary design optimization, multicriteria decision-making and the design of underwater vehicles, with over 150 peer-reviewed papers and 6 books published. Jinglu Li is an assistant researcher at Harbin Engineering University, China. His research includes underwater vehicle design, multidisciplinary optimization, digital twins and data-driven global optimization and he has published over 20 peer-reviewed papers.