Personnel
About the People
NCREPT currently has 4 faculty members and more than 15 Graduate students associated with it, and the numbers are increasing with students and faculty joining each semester. The faculty are each from a different specialization, to encompass a wide array of topics. Click on the names for more detail.
Dr. H. A. Mantooth
Executive Director
Department of Electrical Engineering
Phone: 479-575-4838
Email: mantooth@uark.edu
Dr. Roy McCann
Associate Director
Department of Electrical Engineering
Phone: 479-575-6054
Email: rmccann@uark.edu
Dr. Chris Farnell
Associate Director
Department of Electric Engineering
Phone: 479-575-4487
Email: cfarnell@uark.edu
Dr. Yue Zhao
Associate Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
Phone: 479-575-4627
Email: yuezhao@uark.edu
Anna Corbitt
NCREPT Senior Research Assistant
Email: amcorbit@uark.edu
Anna Corbitt received a B.S in engineering-physics from Southern Arkansas University, Magnolia, AR, USA in 2021 and a M.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, USA in 2023, where she is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in electrical engineering. She was the recipient of the Distinguished Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Arkansas in 2021. In 2022 she worked at Toyota Research and Development (R&D) in Ann Arbor, MI, USA as a summer design co-op. In 2023, she was hired as a full-time staff member at the National Center for Reliable Electric Power Transmission (NCREPT) at the University of Arkansas where she currently works full-time while pursuing her Ph.D. degree. Her current research focus is power electronics, particularly for electric vehicle applications.
Wesley Schwartz
NCREPT Senior Research Assistant
Email: wgschwar@uark.edu
Wesley Schwartz was born in Fort Smith, Arkansas, USA in 2000. He received a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, USA in 2022, where he is currently pursuing a Ph.D in electrical engineering. He was the recipient of the Honors College Fellowship, the Governor’s Distinguished Scholarship, and the William E. Bush Endowed Scholarship in Electrical Engineering at the University of Arkansas from 2018 to 2022. From 2022 to 2023, he was a power systems engineer at Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, NM, USA. In 2023 he was hired as a full-time staff member at the National Center for Reliable Electric Power Transmission (NCREPT) at the University of Arkansas. His research interests include cybersecurity for critical infrastructure, embedded system design, and power electronics. He is a member of Eta Kappa Nu and Tau Beta Pi and is active in K-12 outreach activities.