Mahmood Bagheri received the B.S. degree from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2002 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees (both with honors) from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, in 2004 and 2008, respectively, all in electrical engineering under Prof. John O’Brien. He served as a post-doctoral scholar at USC during 12/2008 – 03/2009, and at Yale during 2009-2011 with Prof. Hong Tang.