Dr. Jacobs completed his Ph.D. in the Mechanical Enginering deparment of Stanford University working with Dr. Kenneth Waldron in the Robotic Locomotion laboratory. Previously, he worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Bioengineering with Dr. Scott Delp at Stanford University in the Neuromuscular Biomechanics laboratory and as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Kinesiology with Dr. Daniel Ferris at the University of Michigan Human Neuromechanics laboratory. His research interests are the design and control of powered wearable robots and sensors for assisting mobility and rehabilitation.