Steven Gao

This article is about the engineer. For the seismologist, see Stephen Gao.

Steven Shichang Gao (Chinese: 高式昌; born 1972) is a Chinese electrical engineer.

Gao worked for the China Research Institute of Radiowave Propagation between 1993 and 1996, then earned a doctorate at Shanghai University in 1999. He completed post doctoral research at the National University of Singapore and subsequently moved to the United Kingdom in 2001 to serve as a research fellow at the University of Birmingham. The following year, Gao began teaching at Northumbria University as a senior lecturer,and became a reader in 2006. In 2007, Gao moved to the University of Surrey, and from 2013 to 2022, was affiliated with the University of Kent. He then returned to China for a position at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In 2022, Gao was selected to replace Christophe Fumeaux as chief editor of the journal IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters.

Gao is a fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and the Institution of Engineering and Technology.