**About the Editor**

#### **Jian Dong**

Jian Dong received a B.S. degree in communication engineering at Hunan University in 2004, and a Ph.D. degree in information and communication engineering at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) in 2010. He was a Research Assistant at the National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Multispectral Information Processing of HUST from 2006 to 2010. He was a Visiting Scholar at the Eledia Research Center of University of Trento in Italy from 2016 to 2017. He works as a Full Professor at the School of Computer Science and Engineering of Central South University. He has published 7 books and over 150 peer-reviewed academic papers in international journals and conferences. He owns 24 innovation patents. His research interests include antennas, metamaterials, radars, machine learning and its applications to electromagnetics. He is the director of Hunan Engineering Research Center for new-generation mobile communication RF inductive components. He is a member of the Young Talents Board of Zhejiang Lab, a member of the expert database of the Ministry of Science and Technology, the National Natural Science Foundation, and the Ministry of Education. He has served as a Guest Editor and Editorial Board member of some international journals, including Frontiers in Physics and Mathematics. He has served as a general co-chair of IoTCIT and 6GIoTT, as a technical program chair of CCPQT and EITCE, and as a Session chair for IEEE ICMMT/IWS/NEMO/ISAPE/ISAP/IWAT, ACES, and PIERS.
