Jian-Kang Xiao obtained the B.S. degree in electronics and M.S. degree in radio physics from Lanzhou   University,China, in 1996 and 2004, respectively. He obtained the Ph.D. degree from Shanghai University,China, in 2007, and then he joined South China University of Technology, China, as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow from 2007 to 2009. He worked at Hohai University, China, from 2009 to 2011, where he was awarded as one of the first batch of young and middle-aged backbone talents of Changzhou city's "831 High-level Innovation and Entrepreneurship Talent Training Project" in 2009. He joined Xidian University,China, in July, 2011. He was an academic visitor in Tianjin University,China, and Heriot-Watt   University, U.K., from 2013-2014 and 2015-2016, respectively. His research interests include microwave passive components design, antennas and wireless technologies.

He was a senior member of China Electronics Society, a member of IEEE, and a member of Intelligent Terminal and Chip Professional Technology Group, Internet of Things Committee, China Communication Society. He was also a part-time professor in Key Laboratory of Opto-technology and Intelligent Control, Ministry of Education, China.  He was a reviewer for many international journals including IEEE Trans. MTT, IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems, IEEE MWCL, IEEE Microwave Magazine, IEEE Access, IET MAP, and IET Electronics Letters, et al. He has authored and coauthored more than 50 journal papers in IEEE Trans.，IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, IEEE Access, IET Electronics Letters, AEU-International Journal of Electronics and Communications，Microwave and Optical Technology Letters，J. of Electromagn. Waves and Appl.， Progress in Electromagn. Research, and Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering（Published by John Wiley & Sons）. He has 9 Chinese patents as the first inventor.