Mark Perillo is a graduate student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Rochester, working with advisor Wendi Heinzelman. He received a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering in 2000 and an M.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2002, both from the University of Rochester. His current research interests lie in the area of low-power wireless sensor networks. He is a member of Tau Beta Pi and a student member of the IEEE.