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Peter A. Beerel

Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering Systems

Faculty Director of Innovation Studies, USC Stevens Institute for Innovation


 

Dr. 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, where he is currently an Associate Professor. He is also the Faculty Director of Innotation Studies at the USC Stevens Institute for Innovation. He has been a member of the technical program committee for the International Symposium on Advanced Research in Asynchronous Circuits and Systems since 1997, was Program Co-chair for ASYNC'98, General Co-chair for ASYNC'07, and is on the Steering Committee. His research interests include a variety of topics in CAD and asynchronous VLSI design.

Dr Beerel has consulted for Intel in the area of asynchronous design, Trellisware in the area of communication hardware design, Yuni Networks and AMCC in the area of network chip analysis and verification, and Fulcrum Microsystems in the area of asynchronous design, verification, and CAD. He was on leave of absense from USC between June 2002 to September 2004 during which time he was Vice-President of CAD and Verification at Fulcrum and has remained a member of their Technical Advisory Board.

Dr. Beerel was a recipient of an Outstanding Teaching Award in 1997 and the Junior Research Award in 1998, both from USC's School of Engineering. He recieved a National Science Foundation (NSF) Career Award and a 1995 Zumberge Fellowship. He was also co-winner of the Charles E. Molnar award for two papers published in ASYNC'97 that best bridged theory and practice of asynchronous system design and was a co-recipient of the best paper award in ASYNC'99.


You can contact me at pabeerel@usc.edu

 

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