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Zekui Jia

Engineering · Purdue University West Lafayette

Early career · publishing since 2019Rising activity

Publications

18

Citations

75

Est. group size

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

8

Publishing since 2019

Research summary
AI-generated

Zekui Jia works on microwave imaging and inverse scattering, which involves reconstructing hidden properties of objects (such as their electrical material characteristics, or 'permittivity') from measured electromagnetic wave data. Much of this work develops mathematical and computational methods—like reduced-order models and iterative inversion techniques—to make these reconstructions faster, more accurate, and more robust, with applications such as imaging layered or buried materials and detecting metallic objects. A prospective student would be working on applied mathematics and computational techniques for solving inverse problems in electromagnetics and geophysics-related imaging.

Microwave imaging and inverse scatteringPermittivity and material property reconstructionReduced-order and model-based inversion methodsElectromagnetic wave propagation and scattering theoryMachine-learning-inspired optimization (supervised descent method)

Publication output has been relatively steady but modest over the last decade, with small fluctuations year to year and no clear long-term growth or decline, averaging about 2 publications per year over the last 5 years.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 2.0/year recently
17182019: 4 publications4192020: 2 publications202021: 2 publications212022: 1 publication222023: 2 publications232024: 2 publications242025: 4 publications4252026: 1 publication26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation×3
  • IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing×1
  • Inverse Problems×1
  • 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting (APS/URSI)×1
  • 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting (AP-S/URSI)×1
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This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.

Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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