Biography
Xun Gong (S’02-M’05-SM’11) received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from FuDan University, Shanghai, P.R. China, in 1997 and 2000, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 2005.
He is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of Central Florida (UCF) and Director of the Antenna, RF, and Microwave Integrated Systems (ARMI) Laboratory. He joined UCF in 2005 as an assistant professor and participated in the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Summer Faculty Fellowship Program (SFFP) in 2009, conducting research at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) in Hanscom, MA. Prior to joining UCF, he was a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the Birck Nanotechnology Center at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. His research focuses on microwave passive components and filters, sensors, antennas and arrays, flexible electronics, and packaging.
Dr. Gong has served on the Editorial Boards of IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques (TMTT), IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation (TAP), IEEE Microwave and Wireless Component Letters (MWCL), and IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters (AWPL). He was the associate editor of IEEE TMTT in 2018-2019 and of IEEE MWCL from 2013 to 2018. He served as the Technical Program Committee (TPC) Chair for the 2013 IEEE AP-S/URSI International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and Operations Chair for the 2014 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS). He is the General Chair for the 2016 and 2025 IEEE International Workshop on Antenna Technology (iWAT), the 2024 IEEE International Microwave Filter Workshop (IMFW), and the 2012 IEEE Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference (WAMICON). He was the IEEE AP/MTT Orlando Chapter Chair from 2007 to 2010.
Dr. Gong received the NSF Faculty Early CAREER Award in 2009, the UCF Lockheed Martin Professorship (2018-2028), and the UCF Reach for the Stars Award in 2016. He also received the Research Incentive Award (RIA) at UCF in 2011, 2016, and 2021, and the Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) Award in 2010, 2015, and 2023. Additionally, he was recognized with Outstanding Engineer Awards from the IEEE Florida Council and Orlando Section in 2009.
He is an elected AdCom member of IEEE MTT-S (2021-2026) and served as chair of the Education Committee (2023-2024) and Electronic Information Committee (2025). He was the MTT-TC-5 Chair (2021-2022) and Vice-Chair (2019-2020).