Sen Yan received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Information and Communication Engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University (XJTU), China, in 2007 and 2010, respectively, and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from KU Leuven, Belgium, in 2015. After that, he continued his research work in the same institute as a post-doctor. From 2016, he worked as a research fellow supported by the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO), Belgium. In February 2016, he worked as a visiting scholar in EPFL, Switzerland. In August and September 2016, he worked as a visiting researcher at the University of Texas in Austin, U.S. In 2017, he joined Xi’an Jiaotong University and is currently a full professor there. From 2019, he served as the deputy director of the Engineering Training Center, XJTU. Prof. Yan’s current research is focused on metamaterials and meta-surfaces, wearable devices and textile antennas, reconfigurable antennas, antenna diversity, and biosensors. He successfully achieved the post-doctoral fellowship from KU Leuven and FWO in 2015 and 2016, respectively. In 2017, he obtained the “Young Talent Support Plan” of Xi’an Jiaotong University. In 2019, he received the Young Scientist Award from the International Union of Radio Science (URSI). He also received the best paper at the 2019 Cross Strait Quad-Regional Radio Wireless Conference.
Xi'an Jiaotong University
Xi’an, Shaanxi, China