Mable Fok, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
NSF CAREER Award Recipient
Telephone: 706-542-2233
Email: mfok@uga.edu
Mable Fok, an associate professor in the College of Engineering, introduces students to state-of-the-art technologies as well as basic knowledge to lay the foundation for breakthroughs in research. Dr. Fok is the director of the Lightwave and Microwave Photonics Laboratory. Her recent research interest is on microwave photonics devices and systems, hybrid photonic-neuromorphic signal processing, and fiber optics sensor for biomedical, robotics and civil engineering. Dr. Fok has published over 160 journal and conference papers, including 18 invited papers. She is a contributing author of the book Optical switches Materials and Design, Woodhead Publishing Limited, 2010. 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
Research Focus
- Spectral mining based on microwave photonics
- Hybrid analog/digital optical processing of signals based on neuromorphic algorithm
- Ultrafast all-optical signal processing to enhance physical layer information security
Areas of Specialty
- Photonics
- Fiber-optics
- Lightwave neuromorphic signal processing
- Microwave photonics,
- Photonic signal processing
- Non-linear fiber optics
- Physical (optical) layer network security
- Photonics systems
- Optical communication systems