Dezhong Yao received PhDs from Chengdu University of Technology (1991) and Aalborg University (2005). He became a faculty member with University of Electronic Science and Technology of China（UESTC）since 1993, a full professor since 1995. He won the NSFC ‘Outstanding Youth Research Found’ in 2005, selected as Yangtze River Scholar Professor in 2006. He innovated the REST technique for zero EEG reference at infinity, and proposed the concept of ‘Brain-Apparatus Communication’ (BAC) to integrate brain-computer interaction and brain-internal organ interaction. He set up the School of Life Science and Technology at UESTC in 2001. He has cultivated 50+ PhD，published 6 books including “The Physics and Mathematics of Electroencephalogram(CRC Press, 2024)” , 200+ journal papers with Google scholar citation>19000, hosted 20+ conferences including 20th IOP (2021), presented 100+ talks. He is the Fellow of American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), the winner of the Roy John Award of the EEG and Clinical Neuroscience Society, the chief-editor of the BAC journal. He is the chairman of the Chinese EEG Consortium, the previous vice-chairman of the Chinese Society of Biomedical Engineering.