J. Stephens

Jacob Stephens (Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA, in 2015, and completed the postdoctoral studies with the Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, from 2016 to 2018. He is currently an Assistant Professor of electrical and computer engineering with Texas Tech University and performs research at the Center for Pulsed Power and Power Electronics. His current research interests include high-power microwave sources, photoconductive switching of high-power microwaves, lightning-induced fields and mitigation techniques, compact and large-scale pulsed power, and kinetic modeling of dc and microwave electrical discharges.