John O'Hara received his BS degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1998 and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at 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 a staff scientist with the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies at LANL and work 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 as an assistant professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His current research involves terahertz wireless communications, terahertz sensing and imaging with metamaterials, IoT, light-based sensing and communications, and rural outreach and renewal. H has 4 patents and about 100 publications in peer reviewed journals and conference proceedings.