Research Interests:
Design, synthesis, analysis, and formal verification of mixed asynchronous and synchronous architectures.
Biographical Information:
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, 1994, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA.
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 Department of Electrical Engineering--Systems at USC in 1994, where he is currently an Associate Professor. He has been a member of the technical program committee for the International Symposium on Advanced Research in Asynchronous Circuits and Systems since 1997 and was Program Co-char for ASYNC'98. He has served on the technical program committee for ICCAD'00 and is currently serving on the technical program committee of ICCAD'01. His research interests include a variety of topics in CAD and VLSI. 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 received 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. Dr. Beerel is co-author of 4 patents in the area of asynchronous circuits. He has consulted for Yuni Networks and AMCC in the areas of networking chip design, Intel in the areas of asynchronous design and CAD, and Trellisware in the area of communication chip design. He is also the Director of Software Engineering at Fulcrom Semiconductor, a start-up company building broadband network chips using asynchronous circuits.
