WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., May 6 -- Purdue University issued the following news release:
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Zubin Jacob, the Elmore Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been named a 2026 Guggenheim fellow, a program that champions the talents of the exceptional scholars and artists whose passions often have broad and immediate social impact.
Jacob's research seeks to dissolve the perceived limits of resolution in microscopy, thermal vision and space telescopy. The fellowship supports his work on a project to overcome the fundamental limits of thermal imaging.
As a doctoral student, Jacob proposed the optical hyperlens, a device based on hyperbolic metamate...