Carol L. Kory received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Dayton, Dayton, OH, in 1992 and the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and Doctorate in Engineering from the Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH in 1997 and 2000, respectively. Her Doctoral dissertation involved the analysis and computational modeling of three dimensional (3D) helical traveling wave tube (TWT) interaction using a 3D particle-in-cell code.

From 1991 to 1992 she was with NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, OH, as an intern student, where her work involved analyzing TWT slow-wave circuits. Upon graduation from the University of Dayton, she became a full time employee of the ANALEX Corporation, working with the same staff at NASA Glenn. Her research interests include computational modeling and design of vacuum devices, passive RF components, antennas and high data rate communications.

Dr. Kory is a member of the IEEE Electron Devices Society Technical Committee on Vacuum Devices and was a strong participant in establishing the first International Conference on Vacuum Electronics (IVEC). She served as Publicity Chair, Entertainment Chair, and Technical Program Chair for IVEC 2000, 2002 and 2004, respectively, and continues to actively support the annual conference. She is a senior member of the IEEE and member of Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu.