Dr. Mfonobong Charles Uko

Dr. Mfonobong Charles Uko is an RF engineer and technology leader based in the United Kingdom. He works across radio frequency design, antenna design, Internet of Things systems and the convergence of satellite and cellular networks, turning research prototypes into hardware that can be built, tested and deployed.

He holds a B.Eng in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Uyo in Nigeria and an MSc by Research from Manchester Metropolitan University, where his work covered a switchable wideband receiver front end for 5G and satellite applications, combining X band and K/Ka band low noise amplifiers with a broadband pHEMT switch.

He is the Chief Technology Officer of TISG Ltd in Manchester, where he leads technology strategy and research and development, directs engineering teams working on RF sensing, edge intelligence and digital twins, manages technical partnerships with academic and industry collaborators, and translates prototype results into product specifications for scalable deployment.

His research spans low noise amplifier and receiver front end design, adaptive beamforming for millimetre wave 5G MIMO antennas, passive RFID energy harvesting, hybrid RF and photovoltaic harvesting for low power IoT, satellite and cellular convergence below 6 GHz and in the millimetre wave bands, and multiband slotted antennas for biosensing. His work has appeared in IEEE Access, IEEE WAMICON, the IEEE-APS Topical Conference on Antennas and Propagation in Wireless Communications, Technologies, Discover Electronics and the International Review of Aerospace Engineering.

He has around 57 research publications to his name with an h-index of 14 and close to 500 citations, and his most cited work is the hybrid power divider and combiner for passive RFID tag wireless energy harvesting published in IEEE Access.