Dr. Cvijetic earned her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Virginia, where she won numerous awards for academic and research excellence. She has held senior research positions in the Broadband and Mobile Networking and Optical Networking and Sensing Departments at NEC Laboratories America in Princeton, NJ, where she conducted advanced research, created intellectual property (over 20 granted U.S. patents) and authored peer-reviewed conference and journal publications (>3000 Google Scholar citations). She has also served as Adjunct Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University, where she instructed a graduate-level course on digital communications systems. Dr. Cvijetic was previously with Tesla Motors, Palo Alto, CA, focusing on advanced projects in Autopilot and Infotainment systems, and is currently with NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA, working on Autonomous Vehicles.