Professor Hao was the PI and the director of a £4.6M EPSRC QUEST programme grant on transformation electromagnetics and microwave metamaterials. Since 2013, he is also a management board member of Cambridge Graphene Center, which has attracted over £25M funding from UK EPSRC and EU Graphene Flagship.
From 2018, he serves as an Adcom member and the publication committee chair for IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society. Prof. Hao was also an Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE ANTENNAS AND WIRELESS PROPAGATION LETTERS during 2014 and 2017. He recently founded a new open access journal for metamaterial research and he is now an editor-in-chief for EPJ Applied Metamaterials. He was an Associate Editor for the IEEE ANTENNAS AND WIRELESS PROPAGATION LETTERS, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION during 2008-2013, and also a Co-Guest Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION in 2009.