In response to new problems arising in port and waterways engineering, Tang has been focusing on "Smart port + big data +artificial intelligence", and continuously innovating the theory and practice of port planning and operation using simulation, optimization and AI. He is selected as Dalian City Youth Science and Technology Star in 2015,  and in the field of , won the title of "2019 China Port Association Innovation Team (First Prize for Science and Technology Progress)" for  port planning and big data application as one of three leaders. 

Projects

• National Natural Science Foundation projects

• Adaptive operation scheduling of container port coupled with multi-source information with big data challedges

• Land space layout and refined arrangement of hub seaport considering unconventional emergencies

• Key project of the Natural Science Foundation of Liaoning Province 

• A big-data analysis of the temporal and spatial characteristics of ship behavior

• Dalian Youth Science and Technology Star Project 

• Smart Port Information Service System based on Internet of Things (Io)

Research direction

• Port system simulation optimization under the background of big data 

• Design and development of smart port decision support system 

• Application research of big data and artificial intelligence open source framework