Research profile

Peng Mei (Senior Member, IEEE) was born in Suizhou, Hubei Province, in 1993. He received the B.Eng and M.Eng. degrees (with highest honors) in electromagnetic field and microwave technology from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China, and Ph.D. degree in wireless communications from the Aalborg University, Demark, in 2015, 2018, 2021, respectively. Dr. Mei finished his postdoctoral training in Aug. 2023, and is currenly working as an Assistant Professor at Department of Electronic Systems, Aalborg University. 

Dr. Mei was a recipient of  the Outstanding Student of UESTC (only 10 awardees from 12000 graduate students, the highest honor awarded to individual at UESTC) 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 Ministry 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 (CIE) in 2019.

Dr. Mei served as a Session Chair for the IEEE-APS Topical Conference on Antennas and Propagation in Wireless Communications (APWC), Granada, Spain, in September 2019, served as a Session Chair for the PhotonIcs & Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS), Hangzhou, China, in April, 2022, and served as a Session Chair for the 2022 International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (ISAP), Sydney, Australia, in Nov, 2022. Dr. Mei is also invited as a Session Chair for the 2023 PhotonIcs & Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS), Prague, Czech, in 2023, a chief guest editor of the special issue entitled "Advanced Massive MIMO Antenna Arrays, Metasurfaces, and Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for Sensing, Localization, and Wireless Communications" launched by Sensors, 2022, a chief guest editor of the special issue entitlted "Selected Papers from the 2023 International Workshop on Antenna Technology" launched by Sensors,  2023, a lead guest editor of the spcial section entitled "Recent Advances on Absorbers/Rasorbers and Their Applications on Antennas and EMC" launched by the IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation, a guest editor of the article collection entitled "Advances in Antenna Design and Radio Propagation for Integrated Sensing and Communications" launched by the IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation, and best paper competition co-chair of the 2023 international workshop on antenna technology (iWAT 2023), and was invited to deliver an invited talk at IWAT2024. His current research interests include: periodic structures, metamaterials, reflectarray/transmitarray antennas, and multibeam millimeter-wave antennas, and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces. Dr. Mei was a recipient of top reviewer of the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation from 2022 to 2024, three consecutive years, was listed as World Top 2% Scientists in the Year 2023 and 2024, two consecutive years. Dr. Mei has been selected as 2025 IEEE Antennas and Propaation Society Young Professional Ambassador.