Dr. Mable Fok is an assistant professor in the University of Georgia College of Engineering and Director of the Lightwave and Microwave Photonics Laboratory. Mable Fok received her B. Eng., M. Phil., and Ph.D degrees in Electronic Engineering in 2002, 2004, and 2007, respectively, all from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Fok and graduate research assistant Ryan Toole are named inventors on a recently filed provisional patent application for their work researching Eigenmannia, a small South American electric fish that uses active electrolocation to locate objects by generating an electric field and detecting distortions in the field. The “jamming avoidance response,” or JAR, can serve as the model for an artificial neural network that improves the efficiency of wireless communications. More