Phillip H. Jones received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, in 1999 and 2002, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in computer engineering from Washington University, St. Louis, MO, in 2008. Currently, he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, where he has been since 2008. His research and teaching interests are in adaptive computing systems, reconfigurable hardware, embedded systems, and hardware architectures for application-specific acceleration. He has received support from NSF, AFOSR, and the Iowa Space Grant Consortium (ISGC) to purse his interests.

In 2013, he became the Faculty advisor for Digital Women, a University group whose primary charter is to encourage, support, and retain women in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, MIS, and any other field involved with electrical technology. In addition, he was recently appointed the advisor of the Iowa State University IEEE student branch.