Tie Jun Cui, Professor, Ph. D Advisor, Academician of Chinese Academy of Science, the expert in electromagnetic fields and microwave technology. He was born in Luanping, Hebei Province, in 1965. He received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Xidian University, Xi’an, China, in 1987, 1990, and 1993, respectively. In March 1993, he joined the Department of Electromagnetic Engineering, Xidian University, and was promoted to an Associate Professor in November 1993. From 1995 to 1997 he was an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow with the Institut fur Hochstfrequenztechnik und Elektronik (IHE) at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. In July 1997, he joined the Center for Computational Electromagnetics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, first as a Postdoctoral Research Associate and then a Research Scientist. In September 2001, he was a Cheung-Kong Professor with the Department of Radio Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China. From January 2018, he became Chief Professor of Southeast University. He is a member of the Central Committee of Jiu-San Society, and also a member of the Standing Committee of the 13th Jiangsu Provincial People’s Congress.
Prof. Cui is the expert in microwave metamaterials and computational electromagnetics. He has managed and undertook a series of scientific research projects, including the Major Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the National Key Research and Development Program of China. He is the first author of books “Metamaterials - Theory, Design, and Applications (Springer, Nov. 2009)” and “Metamaterials: Beyond Crystals, Noncrystals, and Quasicrystals (CRC Press, Mar. 2016)”. He has published over 400 peer-review journal papers, which have been cited in WOS by more than 15000 times, and licensed over 60 patents. Prof. Cui received the Natural Science Award (first class) from the Ministry of Education, China, in 2011, and the National Natural Science Awards of China (second class), in 2014 and 2018, respectively. His researches have been selected as one of the most exciting peer-reviewed optics research “Optics in 2016” by Optics and Photonics News Magazine (OSA), 10 Breakthroughs of China Science in 2010, “Best of 2010” in New Journal of Physics, and Research Highlights in a series of journals. His work has been widely reported by Nature News, MIT Technology Review, Scientific American, Discover, New Scientists, etc.
Prof. Cui is an IEEE Fellow, and was an Associate Editor in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Guest Editor in Science China - Information Sciences, Guest Editor in Science Bulletin, and Guest Editor in Research. He is an editorial board member of PhotoniX and elight. He served as General Co-Chair of the International Workshops on Metamaterials (META’2008, META’2012), TPC Co-Chair of Asian Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC’2005), TPC Co-Chair of Progress in Electromagnetic Research Symposium (PIERS’2004), and TPC Member of the International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics (Metamaterials’2014, 2016, 2018, 2019). He presented more than 30 Keynote and Plenary Talks in Academic Conferences, Symposiums, or Workshops.
