Peng Mei was born in Suizhou, Hubei Province, in 1993. He received the B.Eng and M.Eng. degrees (with highest honors) from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China, and Ph.D. degree from the Aalborg University, Demark, in 2015, 2018, 2021, respectively, all in electromagnetic field and microwave technology. 

Dr. Mei was a recipient of  the Outstanding Student of UESTC (only 10 awardees from 12000 graduate students) in 2017, the Excellent Graduate Student of UESTC in 2018, and the Excellent Graduate Student of Sichuan Province in 2018. Dr. Mei was also twice recipient of the National Scholarships from the Minitry of Education of the People's Republic of China, in 2016 and 2017. Dr. Mei was a recipient of Excellent Master Thesis from the Chinese Institute of Electronics in 2019.

Dr. Mei served as a Section Chair for the IEEE-APS Topical Conference on Antennas and Propagation in Wireless Communications (APWC), held in Granada, Spain, in September 2019, and served as a Section Chair for the Progress In Electromagnetic Research Symposium (PIERS), held in Hangzhou, China, in April, 2022. His current research interests include: periodic structures, matematerials, Reflectarray/Transmitarray antennas, and multibeam millimeter-wave antennas.