Wei Hong received the B.S. degree from the University of Information Engineering, Zhengzhou, China, in 1982, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 1985 and 1988, respectively, all in radio engineering.

He has been with the State Key Laboratory of Millimeter Waves, Southeast University, since 1988, where he has also been the Director of the Laboratory since 2003. He is currently a professor at the School of Information Science and Engineering at Southeast University. In 1993 and 1995-1998, he was a short-term visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley and at Santa Cruz, CA, USA, respectively. He has authored or co-authored over 300 technical publications and two books. His current research interests include numerical methods for electromagnetic problems, millimeter-wave theory and technology, antennas, electromagnetic scattering, and RF technology for mobile communications.

Dr. Hong was an Elected IEEE MTT-S AdCom Member during 2014–2016. He is a fellow of IEEE and CIE. He twice awarded the National Natural Prizes, and thrice awarded the first-class Science and Technology Progress Prizes issued by the Ministry of Education of China and the Jiangsu Province Government. Besides, he also received the Foundations for China Distinguished Young Investigators and the Innovation Group issued by the NSF of China. He is the Vice President of the CIE Microwave Society and Antenna Society and the Chair of the IEEE MTTS/APS/EMCS Joint Nanjing Chapter. He served as the Associate Editor of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MICROWAVE THEORY AND TECHNIQUES from 2007 to 2010, and one of the Guest Editors for the 5G special issue of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION in 2017.