Bio

Dr. Corey Shemelya is a former Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, and former Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Fellow in the W. M. Keck Center for 3D Innovation at The University of Texas at El Paso. His research interests include: 3D printed electromagnetic systems, metamaterials, novel antenna designs, semiconductor systems, photonics, and sustainability. Dr. Shemelya earned his PhD in Electrical Engineering as a Greenough Endowed Fellow while working with Prof. Tom Vandervelde in the Renewable Energy and Applied Photonics Laboratories at Tufts University. His PhD work was recognized with the 2015 Joseph P. Noonan Outstanding Doctoral Research Prize.

Dr. Shemelya’s other work has been recognized with several accolades including a Dow Sustainability Award; and Edmond Optics declared him an “Optics Super Hero” in 2012. Dr. Shemelya’s doctoral research aimed to utilize the general field of photonics to optimize multiple stages of thermophotovoltaic energy generators, as well as create dynamic metamaterial polarization sensitive surfaces for use in photodetection technologies. In addition, under the guidance of Prof. Eric MacDonald at the W. M. Keck Center for 3D Innovation, he helped to push the development of fields including 3D printed sensors, 3D printed circuits, and 3D printed GHz antenna designs for LEO. In addition, Dr. Shemelya aided in the development of 3D printed thermal management and propulsion solutions for these CubeSat-based applications. More recently, he has worked with Prof. Marco Rahm at the Metamaterials and Terahertz Technology lab in Kaiserslautern, Germany in order to investigate thin-film wave guide structures, active semiconductor based metasurfaces, and THz TDS systems.

Presently, Corey an Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts Lowell where he is pursuing advances in printed, and 3D printed, electromagnetic form factors.  These research areas run the gambit and include: hybrid injection molding, flexible/conformal 5G antenna systems, printed electrical interconnects, and frequency-selective plasmonics.  Through advances in these tangential, yet related areas, we can advance the form factors of electromagnetics and can provide a means to manufacture new and exiting systems.