YANG Shiwen was born in Sichuan Province, China, in 1967. He received the B.S. degree in electronic science and technology from East China Normal University, Shanghai, the M.S. degree in electromagnetics and microwave technology and the Ph.D. degree in physical electronics from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, in 1989, 1992 and 1998, respectively. From 1994 to 1998, he was a Lecturer at the Institute of High Energy Electronics, UESTC. From 1998 to 2001, he was a Research Fellow at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. From 2002 to 2004, he was a Research Scientist with Temasek Laboratories, National University of Singapore. He is currently a Full Professor at the School of Electronic Engineering, UESTC. His research interests include antennas, antennas arrays, optimization techniques, and computational electromagnetics.