Mable Fok, Ph.D.

Professor and Assistant Dean for Academic and Faculty Affairs

706-542-2233

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302 East Campus Road
Athens, Georgia 30602
United States

0132C Paul D. Coverdell Center
500 D.W. Brooks Drive
Athens, GA 30602
United States

NSF CAREER Award Recipient

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 Expertise

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

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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