Quan Xue received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electronic engineering from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China, in 1988, 1991, and 1993, respectively. In 1993, he joined the UESTC as a Lecturer and became a Professor in 1997. From October 1997 to October 1998, he was a Research Associate and then a Research Fellow with the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In 1999, he joined the City University of Hong Kong and was a Chair Professor of Microwave Engineering before he left in 2017. He also served the University as the Associate Vice President, and the Director of Information and Communication Technology Center, and the Deputy Director of the State Key Lab of Millimeter Waves (Hong Kong). In 2017, he joined the South China University of Technology, where now he is a Professor and serves as the dean of the School of Electronic and Information Engineering, the dean of the School of Microelectronics, and the Director of the Guangdong Key Laboratory of Terahertz and Millimeter Waves. He also serves as the Antenna Chief Scientist of Huawei Technologies 2012 Labs (2020-2023), and a member of the National 6G Technology General Expert Group (2019-).
His research interests include microwave/millimeter-wave/THz integrated circuits and antennas. He has authored or co-authored more than 500 internationally refereed journal papers. Professor Xue is a Fellow of IEEE and an IEEE distinguished microwave lecturer for the 2022-2024 term. He served the IEEE as an AdCom member of MTT-S (2011-2013) and the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques (2010-2013), the Editor of International Journal of Antennas and Propagation (2010-2013), the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (2010-2015), the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Antenna and Propagations (2016), and , a track editor Eletromagnetic Science. Professor Xue is the winner of the 2017 H. A. Wheeler Applications Prize Paper Award.