Tie Jun Cui is the academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chief Professor of Southeast University, Nanjing, China. He authored or co-authored five books and published over 700 peer-review journal papers, which have been cited by more than 77000 times (H-index 134, Google Scholar). He proposed the concepts of digital coding metamaterials and programmable metamaterials, and realized their first experimental demonstrations. He further established a new system of metamaterials: information metamaterial, and devoted to pushing its applications and connections to information science and technology. Dr. Cui received the National Natural Science Awards of China in 2014 and 2018, respectively; Highly Cited Researcher (Clarivate Analytics) from 2019 to 2023, Frontiers of Science Award in the First International Congress of Basic Science in 2023; National Teaching Achievement Award in 2023; Tan Kah Kee Information Science Award in 2024; IEEE Communications Society Marconi Prize in 2024, and so on. Dr. Cui is an IEEE Fellow.