Zubin Jacob Research Group

Dr. Zubin Jacob
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
  • Conference on the Electronic, Transport and Optical Properties of Inhomogeneous Materials (ETOPIM 7) in Sydney, Australia, 2006.
  • Princeton Graduate Fellowship 2004-2005

Nano-Meta Lab

Metamaterials and Plasmonics
Our group is involved in theoretical and experimental research at the boundaries of nanoscale science and technology. Our work explores new device applications using optical metamaterials, artificial media made of nanostructured building blocks.

Quantum Nanophotonics
A major focus of my current research is the quantum properties of metamaterials. The nonintuitive electromagnetic response of metamaterials gives a new playground for understanding and controlling light matter interaction.

Science perspective

Plasmonics goes quantum
Zubin Jacob and Vladimir M. Shalaev


Science Report

Topological transitions in Metamaterials
H. N. S. Krishnamoorthy*, Z. Jacob*, E. Narimanov, I. Kretzchmar, V. M. Menon

*equal author contribution

Hyperbolic Metamaterials

Quantum nanophotonics using hyperbolic metamaterials
C. L. Cortes, W. Newman, S. Molesky and Z. Jacob