John F. O'Hara

John F. O'Hara received his BSEE degree from the University of Michigan in 1998 and his Ph.D. (electrical engineering) from Oklahoma State University (OSU) in 2003. He was a Director of Central Intelligence Postdoctoral Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) until 2006. From 2006-2011 he was with the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (LANL) and worked on numerous metamaterial projects involving dynamic control over chirality, resonance frequency, polarization, and modulation of terahertz waves. In 2011, he founded a consulting/research company, Wavetech, LLC specializing in automation and IoT devices. In 2017 he joined OSU Electrical & Computer Engineering, where he is currently an assistant professor and the Jack H. Graham Endowed Fellow of Engineering. His current research involves terahertz wireless communications, terahertz sensing and imaging with metamaterials, IoT, and light-based sensing and communications. He has 4 patents and around 100 publications in journals and conference proceedings. Dr. O'Hara is a Senior Member of IEEE.