Chao Li received his B.S. degree in physics from Qingdao Ocean University, Qingdao, China, in 2000, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, China, in 2003 and 2008, respectively. Since 2004, he has been with the Key Laboratory of Electromagnetic Radiation and Sensing Technology, CAS, where he became a Professor and currently leads a group on the research of terahertz imaging theory and technology with projects supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, National High Technology Research and Development Projects (863 Projects) of China, and the National Key Research and Development Program of China. He has authored or coauthored more than 80 peer-reviewed articles and one book. Since 2019, he has also been with Aerospace Information Research Institute, CAS. His research interests include terahertz imaging technology, antenna and wave propagation, computational electromagnetics, and artificial metamaterials in microwave and terahertz bands.