Dr Shu-Lin Chen was born in Hubei Province, China. He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Fuzhou University (FZU), China, in 2012; the M.S. degree in electromagnetic field and microwave technology from Xiamen University (XMU), China, in 2015; and the Ph.D. degree in engineering from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia, in 2019. From April to July 2019, he was a Research Associate with the State Key Laboratory of Terahertz and Millimeter Waves, City University of Hong Kong (CityU). From 2019 to 2022, he was a postdoctoral researcher with the Global Big Data Technologies Centre (GBDTC), UTS, where he is currently appointed as a Lecturer. 

 Dr Chen’s research interests include reconfigurable antennas, leaky-wave antennas, intelligent metasurfaces, and array synthesis. He received the Outstanding Master's Thesis of Fujian Province in 2015. He was a co-recipient for a number of prestigious conference paper awards, including the Honorable Mention Award in 2017 IEEE AP-S/URSI, the Best Paper Award Finalists in 2017 ISAP, the Best Paper Award in 2018 ISAPE, the First Prize of Student Paper in 2021 ACES, and the Best Young Professional Award in 2022 ISAP. He was awarded the TICRA-EurAAP Travel Grant for the 2022 EuCAP and the 2022 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) Fellowship. He is serving as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs (TCAS-II). He is also serving as the Lead Guest Editor of the IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation (OJAP), Special Section on “Advanced Beam-Forming Antennas for Beyond 5G and 6G”