CHEN Pai-Yen (S’09, M’ 13, SM’ 17) is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 2013. He has been involved in multidisciplinary research on high-frequency electronics, electromagnetics, wireless micro/nano-sensors and integrated systems, nano-electromagnetism, and light-matter interactions in plasmonic, nanophotonic and quantum devices. He has published a great number of papers (which include Nature, Nature Electronics, Nature Nanotechnology, and various IEEE transactions) and 9 US patents in these fields. He was a recipient of NSF CAREER Award, SPIE Rising Researcher Award, IEEE Sensors Council Technical Achievement Award (advanced career), IEEE Sensors Council Early Career Award, IEEE Raj Mittra Travel Grant (RMTG) Award, ACES Early Career Award, Young Scientist Award from Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS), International Union of Radio Science (URSI), and URSI Commission B: Electromagnetics, University Scholar of University of Illinois, UIC Researcher of the Year, UIC College of Engineering Research Excellence Award, AFRL Faculty Fellowship, Donald Harrington Fellowship, University of Texas Professional Development Award, and best student paper awards from IEEE flagship conferences. He currently serves as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, IEEE Sensors Journal, and was Associate Editor for and IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF and Microwaves in Medicine and Biology (IEEE-JERM), IEEE Journal of Radio Frequency Identification, and Applied Electromagnetics, and Guest Editor for several international journals including IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Sensors. He was appointed as Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Sensors Council for 2024-2026 period.