Haiyang Qiu received the B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in navigation guidance from Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, China, in 2010 and 2016, respectively. He is currently a Faculty with the School of Electronics and Information School, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang, China. From 2013 to 2014, he was a Visiting Scholar with the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia. His major research interests include marine vehicles navigation, image processing and inertial aided underwater SLAM, distributed mapping with multiple agents.