Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles 1
Number of Founded Organizations 5

Joseph Jacobson is Associate Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he is co-PI of the Center for Bits and Atoms and leads the Molecular Machine Group. His group at MIT is focused on pioneering the field of Avogadro Scale Engineering with applications in novel computing machines and synthetic biology.

Jacobson

received his PhD in Physics from MIT and was a post-doctoral fellow at Stanford in the area of Quantum Optics. He is the recipient of a 1999 Technology Review TR100 Award for Innovation, The 2000 Gutenberg Prize and a 2001 Discover Award. He has authored over 70 peer reviewed papers and conference proceedings in the fields of femotosecond lasers, quantum optics, molecular electronics, nano-chemistry and synthetic DNA.

In the private sector Jacobson was co-founder of E Ink, Kovio and Gen9 and was a founding board member of One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) which is focused on developing a $100 laptop for kids.

Number of Current Jobs 4
Number of Past Jobs 4
Joseph Jacobson has 4 current jobs including CTO and Co-Founder at DeepCure, Co-Founder at E Ink, and Associate Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Additionally, Joseph Jacobson has had 4 past jobs including Co-Founder,Board Of Directors at Kovio.
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Title At Company  
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Kovio
Co-Founder,Board Of Directors20012014
Gen9
Co-Founder, Executive Chairman and CTO20052013
Codon Devices
Co-Founder
Kovio
Founder
Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles 1
Number of Past Board & Advisor Roles 1
Joseph Jacobson is the Founding Board Member at One Laptop Per Child.
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Title At Company  
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One Laptop Per Child
Founding Board Member