Prof. Zubin Jacob
Aug 2023 - Present, Elmore Professor, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, Indiana, U.S.A.
July 2021 – Aug 2023, Elmore Associate Professor, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, Indiana, U.S.A.
Oct 2019 - present, Courtesy appointment, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University, USA
Aug 2018 - Aug 2023, Associate Professor (tenured), Birck Nanotechnology Center, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, USA
Sept 2015 – Aug 2018, Assistant Professor, Birck Nanotechnology Center, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, USA
Education
Ph.D. Aug 2010, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Purdue University, USA
M.S.E.E. Aug 2007, Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, USA
M.A.E.E. Aug 2006, Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, USA
B.Tech. E.E. Aug 2004, Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology – Bombay, India
Awards and Honors
Indian Institute of Technology – Bombay, Young Alumnus Achiever Award 2021
European Association of Antennas and Propagation Leopold Felsen Award for Excellence in Electrodynamics 2021
Recognized among outstanding teachers at Purdue Engineering Fall 2019
DARPA Director’s Fellowship, 2019
Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, 2018
Purdue Seed for Success Award, 2017, for faculty garnering an research grant of $1M or more
DARPA Young Faculty Award, 2017
NSF CAREER Award, 2017
Visiting Faculty (Feb 2015-Dec 2017), International Center for Theoretical Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore, India
Multiple awards in Doctoral school including Dmitri N. Chorafas Best Dissertation Prize 2010 (Awarded only to 31 students in 2010 around the world among top universities such as MIT, UCLA, Purdue, EPFL etc)., IEEE-Photonics society fellowship award for 2009-2010 and SPIE graduate scholarship award 2008 for potential long range contributions to optical science and engineering