ECE Department Welcomes Four New Faculties this Year
 | Miao Wang, PhD Dr. Miao Whang is currently working on vehicular communication networks and electric vehicle charging in the smart grid. Before joining in UNC Charlotte, she was an Assistant Professor at Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, from 2018 to 2023. She received her B.E. degree from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunication, China, in 2007, and master’s degree from Beihang Unversity, China, in 2010. She received her Ph.D. degree on Electrical Engineering in 2015 from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada. |
 | Soumitra Joy, PhD Dr. Joy works in semiconductor and electromagnetic devices. His lab focuses on developing new technology for energy efficient, high speed computing devices by exploring new classes of electromagnetic and semiconductor materials. He obtained his Ph.D from ECE, University of Michigan, and worked in Intel Corporation on nanoelectronic devices and their reliability for several years. |
 | Ke Zeng, PhD Dr. Ke Zeng was a post-doctoral researcher at Stanford EE’s Wide-Bandgap Lab since 2019. He received his doctorate from SUNY-Buffalo in Electrical Engineering before this. Both research experiences focused on developing high-power semiconductor devices based on ultra wide-bandgap gallium oxide (Ga2O3). He is excited to reimagine the future of power devices with gallium oxide at the birth state of silicon carbide devices. |
 | Mohammad P. Hokmabadi, PhD Before joining the ECE department of UNC Charlotte, Mohammad Hokmabadi was holding Sr. Scientist position at nLight Inc. where he was working on designing and developing the next generations of high-power semiconductor lasers. Prior to nLight, from 2016 to 2020, he was with University of Southern California, University of Central Florida, and University of Notre Dame, as postdoctoral fellows. He completed his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Alabama in 2016. His research interests lie primarily in the areas of Photonics and Terahertz Science and Technology with particular focus on Metamaterials, Non-Hermitian, and Supersymmetric Optics. |