Mathews Jacob is an associate professor at the Department of  Electrical and Computer Engineering and is heading the Computational Biomedical Imaging Group (CBIG) at the University of Iowa. His research interests include image reconstruction, image analysis and quantification in the context of a range of modalities including magnetic resonance imaging, near-infrared spectroscopic imaging and electron microscopy.

He obtained his B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering and M.E in signal processing from the National Institute of Technology, Calicut Kerala in 1996 and the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1999 respectively. He was granted his Ph.D degree from the Biomedical Imaging Group at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in 2003.

He was a Beckman postdoctoral fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign between 2003 and 2006. He is the recipient of the CAREER award from the National Science Foundation in 2009 and the Research Scholar Award from American Cancer Society in 2011. He is currently the associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging and IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging. The research at his group (CBIG) is is funded by the National Science Foundation, National Institute of Health, American Cancer Society, American Heart Association, and Office of Naval Research.

Email: mathews-jacob at uiowa dot edu
Office: 3314 SC
Curriculum Vitae: CV.pdf
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Phone: 319-335-6420
Fax: 319-335-6028