Dr. Drakulic has 30 years of experience in the design and development of sophisticated hardware and software for biomedical microelectronic systems. He was a Chief Scientist at Teledyne Electronics Technologies Medical Business Unit and a Director of Microelectronic Development Laboratory at Crump Institute for Medical Engineering at UCLA. Dr. Drakulic is the 1985 recipient of the Ralph and Marjorie Crump Prize for Excellence in Medical Engineering. While at UCLA, Dr. Drakulic was a visiting Assistant Professor of the Electrical Engineering Department as well as the Department of Anatomy and Neurosurgery and a Research Fellow at the Crump Institute for Medical Engineering.