Jacob Chakareski completed the MS degree in electrical and computer engineering at WPI and the PhD degree in electrical and computer engineering at Rice and Stanford. He is presently a Panasonic Professor of Computing at NJIT. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UA. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow and Associate Scientist at EPFL, where he conducted research, supervised students, and lectured. He also held research or advisory positions with Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Vidyo, a tech leader in scalable video Internet telepresence, and Frame, a tech leader in mobile visual cloud computing. Chakareski has authored one monograph, five book chapters, and over 160 IEEE and ACM international journal and conference publications, and holds 9 US patents. His present research interests span mobile virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) systems, UAV-IoT sensing and communication, millimeter wave and free space optics mobile networking, 360-degree video streaming, accelerated reinforcement learning for stochastic control in communications and robotics, ubiquitous immersive communication, edge computing and caching, and emerging 5G and IoT architectures. He also investigates interdisciplinary applications of UAV-IoT-enabled networked VR/AR immersion and VR-AI enabled automated low vision rehabilitation. His research has been supported by the NSF, NIH, AFOSR, Adobe, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Tencent.

Dr. Chakareski is a member of Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kapa Nu. He received a best paper award at ICC 2017 and the Swiss NSF Career Development Award Ambizione. He is also a recipient of the Technical University Munich Mobility Fellowship, the University of Edinburgh Chancellor’s Fellowship, and the Texas Instruments Graduate Research Fellowship. He was an AFOSR Summer Faculty Fellow for 2015-2016. He has organized and chaired special sessions on Telemedicine at IEEE MMSP 2009 and Immersive VR/AR Experiences at ACM MMSys 2017. He was the Technical Program Co-Chair of IEEE Packet Video 2012 and IEEE Packet Video AR 2016, the Demo/Expo Chair of IEEE ICME 2016, and the General Co-Chair of the IEEE SPS Seasonal School on Social Media Processing 2012. He was a Guest Editor for the Springer PPNA March 2015 special issue on P2P-Cloud Systems and the IEEE TCSVT January 2017 special issue on Mobile Visual Cloud. Chakareski served on the Advisory Board of Frame, Inc. until its acquisition by Nutanix in 2019. He is an IEEE Senior Member.