Steven Gao

Steven Gao received the PhD from Shanghai University, China. He is a Professor at Department of Electronic Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, where he is also the Director of Center for intelligent Electromagnetic Systems.

Prior to joining CUHK, he was a Professor and Chair of RF and Microwave Engineering at the University of Kent (UKC), UK during 2013-2022, and became an Honorary Professor at UKC since 2022.

His research covers smart antennas, phased arrays, MIMO, reconfigurable antennas, broadband/multiband antennas, satellite antennas and wireless systems (mobile and satellite communications, synthetic-aperture radars, IOT). He co-authored/co-edited 3 books (Space Antenna Handbook, Wiley, 2012; Circularly Polarized Antennas, IEEE & Wiley, 2014; Low-Cost Smart Antennas, Wiley, 2019), over 500 papers and 20 patents.

He is a Fellow of IEEE, and the Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters. He was a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (2014-2016), and an Associate Editor for several international Journals (IEEE TAP; Radio Science; Electronics Letters; IET Circuits, Devices and Systems, etc). He served as the Lead Guest Editor of Proceedings of the IEEE for a Special Issue on “Small Satellites” (2018), and the Lead Guest Editor of IEEE Trans on Antennas and Propagation for Special Issues on “Low-Cost Wide-Angle Beam-Scanning Antennas” (2022) and “Antennas for Satellite Communication” (2015), and a Guest Editor of IET Circuits, Devices & Systems for a Special Issue in “Photonic and RF Communications Systems” (2014). He was the UK’s Representative in European Association on Antennas and Propagation (EurAAP) during 2021-2022, and an Invited or Keynote Speaker at many international conferences (APMC 2024, IWOP 2024…).