Prof. Beerel received his B.S.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, in 1989 and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, in 1991 and 1994, respectively. He joined the the Department of Electrical Engineering--Systems at USC in 1994. Prof. Beerel is currently also the Faculty Director of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Engineering for the Viterbi School of Engineering.