Rhonda R. Franklin has electrical engineering degrees from Texas A&M University (BSEE) and University of Michigan (MSEE and PhD). Her expertise is on high-speed circuits, antennas, sensors, integrated packaging and material characterization communications, biomedicine/nanomedicine, and ecology applications. She has published over 130+ co-authored refereed conferences/journals and has six book chapters and three patents. In IEEE MTT-S, she served as associate editor (MWCL) and an inaugural Editorial Board member for Journal of Microwaves, chaired MTTS technical/education committees/sub-committees, and co-founded IMS Project Connect to broaden women/URM participation in microwave engineering.
Currently, she is Integration Director in the NSF ATP-Bio Engineering Research Center and co-Director of the IEM Inspire program to broaden participation in biomedicine. She is the recipient of the NSF PECASE, Sara Evans Faculty Scholar Leader, UM ECE Willie Hobbs Moore Distinguished Alumni Lecture Award, IEEE N. Walter Cox Service Award , ARCS Minnesota Chapter Scientist of the Year, UMN CSE George Taylor Award for Distinguished Service, IEEE Diversity and Inclusion Award, and UM ECE Distinguished Educator Award. She advocates for faculty and student success and professional development and is the proud mother of one.
