Instructors
Prof. David Ricketts received his PhD in engineering and applied sciences from Harvard University and his BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Prior to joining academia, he spent eight years in industry developing more than 40 integrated circuits in mixed-signal, RF and power management applications. Ricketts’ research crosses the fields of physics, materials science and circuit design, investigating the ultimate capabilities of microelectronic devices and how these devices are harnessed by differing circuit topologies to produce the highest performing systems.
Prof. Jacob Adams received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Ohio State University and the PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He worked as an Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Electromagnetics Laboratory at the University of Illinois and joined the faculty at NC State in 2013. Adams studies antennas in applications including mobile communications, wireless sensing, and defense systems with a focus on reconfigurable antennas, novel materials, and eigendecomposition methods in electromagnetics. Adams is the recipient of a DARPA Young Faculty Award and the Army Research Office Young Investigator Award.