Peter Beerel is an associate professor in the USC Viterbi School of Engineering and serves as the faculty chair of Innovation Studies for USC Stevens. In this role, Dr. Beerel oversees faculty committee representing schools across the university, which identifies educational needs and interdisciplinary collaborative opportunities with USC innovators. Dr. Beerel is also the director of Software Engineering at Fulcrom Semiconductor, a start-up company building broadband network chips using asynchronous circuits. He is a co-author of four patents in the area of asynchronous circuits.  Dr. Beerel received his B.S.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University and earned his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.