Jacob Adams

Biography

Dr. Adams received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Ohio State University, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. From January 2011 until December 2012, he was an Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Electromagnetics Laboratory at the University of Illinois. He joined the faculty at NC State in 2013. Prof. Adams is a Senior Member of the IEEE and is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation and the IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation. He is also a recipient of several national awards, including the DARPA Young Faculty Award, the U.S. Army Research Office Young Investigator Award, and an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.

His research interests include electrically small and reconfigurable antennas, characteristic mode theory, time-varying antennas, and microfluidics and additive manufacturing applications in RF systems.  He is currently looking for motivated graduate students interested in these research areas.

Education

• Ph.D. 2011
  Electrical and Computer Engineering
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Master's 2007
  Electrical and Computer Engineering
  The Ohio State University, Columbus
• Bachelor's 2005
  Electrical and Computer Engineering
  The Ohio State University, Columbus

Recent Publications

• Low Profile GRIN Lenses With Integrated Matching Using 3-D Printed Ceramic (2023)
• Antenna Element Design Using Characteristic Mode Analysis: Insights and Research Directions. (2022)
• Fundamental Limits on Substructure Dielectric Resonator Antennas (2022)
• Transient analysis of dynamically switched frequency shift keyed transmitters (2022)
• An UHF Reconfigurable Liquid-Metal Monopole Antenna Based on a 2-D Surface (2021)
• DC-Assisted Stabilization of Internal Oscillations for Improved Symbol Transitions in a Direct Antenna Modulation Transmitter (2021)
• Implementation of A Flat-Bottom Luneburg Lens Based on Conformal Transformation Optics (2021)
• Metallophobic Coatings to Enable Shape Reconfigurable Liquid Metal Inside 3D Printed Plastics (2021)
• RESHAPE: A Liquid Metal-Based Reshapable Aperture for Compound Frequency, Pattern, and Polarization Reconfiguration (2021)
• Unit cell estimation of volumetrically-varying permittivity in additively-manufactured ceramic lattices with X-ray computed tomography (2021)