Dixian Zhao received the B.Sc. degree in microelectronics from Fudan University, Shanghai, China, in 2006, the M.Sc. degree in microelectronics from Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), the Netherlands, in 2009, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering at University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium, in 2015.

From late 2005 to 2007, he was with Auto-ID Lab, Shanghai, China, where he developed the non-volatile memory for passive RFID tags. From 2008 to 2009, he was with Philips Research, Eindhoven, where he designed a 60-GHz beamforming transmitter for presence detection radar. From 2009 to 2010, he was a research assistant at TU Delft, working on the 94-GHz wideband receiver for imaging radar. From 2010 to 2015, he was a research associate at KU Leuven, where he developed 60-GHz and E-band power amplifiers and transmitters. Since April 2015, he has joined Southeast University, China, and he is now a Full Professor. His current research interests include millimeter-wave integrated phased-array transceivers for 5G, satellite and radar applications.

Prof. Zhao serves as Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers. He also serves as the Technical Program Committee (TPC) member, sub-committee chair or TPC co-chair of several conferences, including the IEEE European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC), IEEE International Conference on Integrated Circuits, Technologies and Applications (ICTA). He was the recipient of the National Youth Distinguished Experts in 2016, the Innovative and Entrepreneurial Talent of Jiangsu Province in 2016, the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Predoctoral Achievement Award in 2014, the Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad in 2013. He has authored and co-authored more than 80 IEEE journal and conference papers, one book (60-GHz and E-band Power Amplifiers and Transmitters, Springer Press, 2015), two book chapters, and has more than 20 patents filed or issued.