Mable Fok, Ph.D.
Professor
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
NSF CAREER Award Recipient
Telephone: 706-542-2233
Email: mfok@uga.edu
Mable Fok, a professor in the College of Engineering. Her research lab – Photonics and Soft Robotics Laboratory (WAVE Lab), aims to bring fiber optics and photonics techniques to inter-disciplinary areas. Her current research interest includes soft robotics, bio-inspired photonics, fiber optic sensing, and microwave photonics. She has published over 200 journal and international conference papers and hold 5 US patents. Her work has been funded by National Science foundation (NSF), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and Oak Ridge Associated Universities. Dr. Fok is the recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER award, University of Georgia Creative Research Medal, and Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award. Learn more about Dr. Fok's teaching and research in Focus on Faculty.
Education
Ph.D., Electronic Engineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), 2007
M.E., Electronic Engineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), 2004
B.S., Electronic Engineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), 2002
Professional Appointments
- Professor, University of Georgia College of Engineering, 2023 - present
- Associate Professor, University of Georgia College of Engineering, 2017 - 2023
- Research Associate, Princeton University, 2007 - 2012
Areas of Specialty
- Bio- and neural-inspired photonics
- Soft robotics design and fabrication
- Microwave photonics
- Fiber optic-based monitoring in agricultural engineering
- Fiber optic sensing
- Photonics and fiber-optics
- Physical layer network security
- Photonic signal processing and optical communications
Publications and Scholarly Articles
Patents
Stretchable fiber optic sensor
U.S. Patent 10,989,865
Ultra High-Speed Photonics based Radio Frequency Switch
U.S. Patent 10,587,938
Photonics based Tunable Multiband Microwave Filter
U.S. Patent 10,547,280
Continuously Tunable and Highly Reconfigurable Multiband RF Filter
U.S. Patent 10,541,661
Photonic Implementation of Jamming Avoidance Response
U.S. Patent 10,432,304