Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Alberta, Canada
email: zjacob[at]ualberta[dot]ca
Education
- Ph.D (2010) , Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Purdue University, U.S.A.
Research Advisor: Evgenii Narimanov - M.S. (2007) and M.A.(2006), Electrical Engineering,
Princeton University, U.S.A. - B.Tech. (2004), Electrical Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology – Bombay, India
Awards and Honors
- 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 2009-2010
- Theodor Maiman best student paper award finalist
OSA CLEO-IQEC conference 2009 - SPIE scholarship award 2008
for potential long range contributions to optical science and engineering
- Best student paper/poster presentation award
- Princeton Graduate Fellowship 2004-2005