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. He 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 where he is currently a Chair Professor of Microwave Engineering. He also served the University as the Associate Vice President (Innovation Advancement and China Office) (June 2011-Jan 2015), and is now the Director of Information and Communication Technology Center (ICTC center), and the Deputy Director of the State Key Lab of Millimeter Waves (Hong Kong).

He has authored or co-authored over 300 internationally referred journal papers and over 160 international conference papers. He is co-inventor of 5 granted Chinese patents and 17 granted US patents, in addition to 26 filed patents. His research interests include microwave/millimeter-wave/THz passive components, active components, antenna, microwave monolithic integrated circuits (MMIC, and radio frequency integrated circuits (RFIC), etc. Professor Xue is a Fellow of IEEE. 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). He is now an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation (2016-present).