Biography

Yuandan Dong received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Department of Radio Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 2006 and 2008, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, USA, in 2012.

From September 2008 to June 2012, he was a Graduate Student Researcher with the Microwave Electronics Laboratory, UCLA. From September 2012 to February 2016, he was working as a Senior Engineer with the Research and Development Hardware Department, Qualcomm, San Diego, CA, USA. From February 2016 to December 2017, he was working as a Staff Engineer with Universal Electronics Inc., Santa Ana, CA, USA. Since December 2017, he has been a Full Professor with the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China. He has authored or coauthored more than 340 journal articles and conference papers, which receive more than 7700 citations. He has been listed as an Elsevier highly cited researcher from 2021 to 2023. He holds more than 120 patents including seven international patents. He and his team have developed multiple RF products including acoustic wave filters, antenna tuners, and antennas, which are very widely shipped and applied in mobile devices. His research interests include the characterization and development of RF and microwave components, antennas, RF frontend modules, circuits, acoustic-wave filters, and metamaterials.

Dr. Dong was a recipient of the Best Student Paper Award from 2010 IEEE Asia Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC) held in Yokohama, Japan, the Best Paper Award in 2021 and 2023 IEEE International Wireless Symposium (IWS), the Distinguished Expert Presented by Sichuan Province and by the national government, respectively, and the High Level Innovative and Entrepreneurial Talent presented by Jiangsu Province. He has been a TPC member for several international conferences. He has served as an Associate Editor with outstanding service award for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION since 2021. And he has served as a guest editor for IEEE OPEN JOURNAL OF ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION. He is also serving as a Reviewer for multiple IEEE and IET journals including the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MICROWAVE THEORY AND TECHNIQUES and the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION.