Alexa Jakob

Hardware and climate enthusiast. Probably reading nonfiction about New York City.

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A Very Belated 2022 Recap

05 Feb 2023 • Blog
In which I try to make sense of the madness that was 2022 More …

To Alleviate the Electrical Engineer Shortage, Invest in Diversity and Inclusion

27 Jul 2022 • Blog
Try this one weird trick! More …

Politics and Philosophy of the Crescent Street Bike Lane

13 Jun 2022 • Blog
In which Queens (kind of) gets the money More …

Benchmarking Josephson Junctions for Scalable Quantum Computing

27 May 2022 • Blog

For my senior capstone project at the Cooper Union, my classmates Tamar Bacalu, Mark Koszykowski, and I worked with New York University’s Shabani Lab for Quantum Materials and Devices. It was very exciting to be able to work with PhD students and postdocs in a new lab. In this blog post, I’ll give some background on the work and talk about our tentative results.

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How I Prepared for Electrical Engineering Interviews as a New Grad

10 Jan 2022 • Blog
Girlboss Energy Only More …
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