Prof. Zubin Jacob is an Associate Professor at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University in USA. He obtained his B. Tech. in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay in 2004, Master of Science in Electrical Engineering (M.S.E.E.) degree from Princeton University in 2007, and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University in 2010.nnProf. Jacob and collaborators pioneered the research area of hyperbolic photonic metamaterials. These are a special class of photonic media which control the propagation of light in ways beyond the ability of conventional materials. During his Ph.D. (2004- 10), Prof. Jacob and collaborators proposed the concept of the Optical Hyperlens, a metamaterial device that breaks the diffraction limit for super-resolution imaging. His original hyperlens paper ranks as the 6th most cited paper in the 20 year history of Optics Express, out of more than 30,000 articles. He has also led international multi-university experimental teams to demonstrate proof-of- concept devices in the CMOS photonics foundry platform. The framework introduced by Jacob and collaborators is widely used today for designing new materials and devices far beyond optics in the THz, microwave and infrared frequency ranges.