Databases Expert Witnesses
What is a databases expert witness?
Databases expert witness candidate profiles typically consists of a background and expertise in computer science, software, cloud storage, networking, and/or computer security. Data base expert witnesses understand the broad array of database organization and can differentiate between relational database management systems (RDBMS and a new breed of database management, NoSQL.
What types of cases require a databases expert witness?
Representative matters that require expert witness services by a database expert often involve legal issues pertaining to patent infringement, including Inter partes reviews, trade secret disputes, and computer forensics.
What litigation support work might a databases expert witness be expected to perform?
Litigation support by a databases expert witness could include review of the underlying technology, research and authoring expert reports, deposition testimony, providing expert opinions, and expert testimony in court. In addition, the attorney firm may utilize a database expert for pre-litigation consulting work. An expert’s testimony can play a key part in a litigation, and it is imperative that a database expert can explain complex technology and evidence to a judge and jury.
Whether the case involves database systems, database design, data mining, or information security, Cahn Litigation has the experience to turn a search for a databases expert witness around quickly, providing the right balance of expertise and testimony experience.
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Databases Expert Witness - Representative Bios
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The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Databases experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Databases landscape.
Expert Witness #209441
This expert is Managing Partner of a consulting firm providing technical and business strategy advice to startups, and is a lecturer and researcher at a prestigious University. This expert holds an MS and PhD in Computer Science. This expert’s expertise includes databases, electronic commerce, software, web and Internet technologies. This expert specializes in distributed systems, Internet technologies, interoperability of heterogeneous databases, database integration, object-oriented databases, database implementation, databases on parallel computers, federated autonomous databases, database views including updates, incomplete information and nulls, software integration and reuse, electronic mail and reducing spam (unsolicited commercial email), electronic voting systems, and large system integration. This expert has over 75 publications and has given over 125 lectures at conferences, companies and universities on several continents.
This expert was the project manager for efforts on an electronic commerce organization, including research on searchable online catalogs, providing services over the Internet, and concurrent engineering. This expert collaborated on a project on the integration of heterogeneous databases for information finding and distributed constraints, and collaborated with a project on version and configuration management and distributed constraints for collaborative design. This expert previously managed a project on the interoperability of object-oriented and relational databases, a project on federated autonomous databases, a project performing research on databases on parallel computers, and the development of a formally specified, modular database system that includes multiple interfaces at multiple levels, as well as support for database security and integrity.
This expert also serves as a technical expert witness on patent infringement litigation. This expert has worked on both plaintiff cases, testifying on both validity and infringement, and defense cases, testifying on both invalidity and non-infringement. This expert has testified at deposition, Markman tutorial, and trial, including videotaped testimony, testimony before a judge, and testimony before a jury. This expert has written expert reports on infringement and validity, and invalidity and non-infringement, as well as declarations in support of motions and claim construction. This expert has participated in inter partes review (IPR) with declarations and deposition testimony. This expert’s testimony has never been subject to a Daubert sanctions. This expert has also worked on declaratory judgment cases. This expert’s work has often resulted in favorable settlements without the need to go to trial.
Start Databases Expert SearchExpert Witness #218338
This expert holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at a major university. This expert's current research interests are at the intersection of databases and artificial intelligence, including optimization. This expert has a great deal of expertise in the dialog systems component that models the series of voice interfaces, facilitating occurring interactions. Voice dialogs form one of many mechanisms through which a user can interact with interactive multimedia presentation systems (IMPS), and over the years, this expert has worked extensively with IMPS and written several papers on this subject. This expert is author of one of the best known books on multimedia databases, as well as one on advanced databases, a key component to all dialog systems. This expert is the named inventor of a patent pertaining to mining user interactions. In addition, this expert has worked extensively in the general area of data mining for a wide variety of human behavior modeling. As an expert witness, this expert has experience with both invalidity and infringement issues, has written associated reports and has served as a technical expert in front of the USPTO.
Start Databases Expert SearchExpert Witness #255306
This expert has a patent in query optimization, and has written three books on databases as well as numerous highly cited refereed articles. This expert is a full Professor at a State University and has experience as a consultant. This expert has won prizes for research including one for work on object-oriented query languages. This expert is well-published, well-funded through grants, and is a frequent presenter at academic conferences on databases, artificial intelligence, and the semantic web.
Start Databases Expert SearchExpert Witness #215714
This expert has many years of academic and engineering experience and has experience as an expert witness in computer science, software development, network streaming media, embedded systems, enterprise software systems, digital signal processing for audio and music technology. This expert has sustained a long and successful career at the cutting edge of software development and system design using multiprocessor/multi-core architectures for signal processing and control. This expert has been a Software Architect for multiple projects at various companies, and has consulted for a long list of technology companies. This expert provides computer technology consulting, software engineering, and litigation support to high-technology companies, internationally.
This expert has testified before the International Trade Commission, and before a jury in Federal Court, has testified at Markman claim construction hearings and Markman tutorials in Federal Court, been deposed over 10 times, and has authored more than 50 reports and declarations. Case types include patent, trademark infringement, copyright, trade secret misappropriation, and inequitable conduct. This expert has worked on complex international patent cases, and has provided expertise on such diverse areas as streaming media systems, handheld networked Personal Information Management (PIM) devices, enterprise email systems, software for factory automation, interactive databases, enterprise software for management of media libraries, MPEG audio compression, on-line gaming, composition systems, digital camera hardware and software, digital audio hardware and software technologies, compilers, file systems, operating systems, and more.
This expert has worked for companies that interfaced between portable and nonportable devices for sharing information and resources. Additionally, this expert has testified on matters regarding the protocol for having a portable device direct music to be transmitted to a sound system wirelessly.
This expert has published widely in various juried journals, and has authored three books including a two-volume text on the mathematics of music, and a collection of articles on artificial neural networks and music research. This expert taught graduate and undergraduate courses in computer science and digital audio, conducted computer systems research for digital audio, designed and built several networked digital media computer laboratories.
Start Databases Expert SearchExpert Witness #260937
This expert is a Chair of Computer Science and Electrical & Computer Engineering. This expert was a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science. This expert has published more than 480 papers in the leading conferences and journals in computer graphics, robotics, computational geometry, databases, multimedia, high performance computing and symbolic computation, and received 16 best paper and time of test awards. This expert has also served as a program committee member or program chair of more than 120 leading conferences in these areas. Moreover, this expert has given more than 110 invited or keynote talks at conferences and distinguished lectures at other institutions. This expert has served as a member of the editorial board or guest editor of leading journals in computer graphics, robotics, geometry processing and scientific computing. This expert has won many awards and is a Fellow of ACM, AAAS, AAAI, and IEEE. This expert is a member of SIGGRAPH Academy, and Pioneer of Solid Modeling Association.
This expert has supervised 40 Ph.D. students. This expert's research group has developed many well-known software packages for collision detection, triangulation, GPU-based algorithms, multi-agent simulation, texture compression, solid modeling, solving algebraic systems, etc. These packages have been downloaded by more than 200,000 users worldwide and licensed to more than 60 industrial organizations. This expert's group has actively collaborated with many industrial organizations.
This expert was a co-founder of a developer of physics-based audio simulation technologies.
This expert has filed 12 patents (and granted 9) based on research. This expert has served as an expert witness on many patent infringement and class action lawsuits. This expert has written many expert reports related to patent invalidity and patent infringement and has been deposed a few times.
Start Databases Expert SearchExpert Witness #211495
This financial industry software expert holds a PhD and has extensive experience managing data used in the financial services industry, including a deep understanding of how financial services companies use data. This expertise includes developing and teaching graduate-level finance courses, founding an enterprise software company that provided software to professional services firms and financial organizations, and working as an expert in numerous software-related matters, including trade secret, contract dispute, and patent cases involving the financial services industry.
This expert understands data sources, the use of APIs and earlier tools, and the use of data in fixed income, futures, swaps, and options. This expert has worked with data licensing, including licensing financial market data from third parties, and has also been involved in building or managing security master databases.
Prior work has included developing and teaching courses related to the financial services industry in a graduate finance program at a well-regarded university and in professional financial certification programs. This expert also co-developed and taught a financial technology course through a prominent technology forum.
This expert has served as a consultant and expert witness in several matters involving the use of financial data by financial services companies. This work has included trade secret matters involving mortgage-backed securities trading, related systems, data flows, market activities, and software used in fixed-income trading, including databases sourced for use with the software.
This expert has also analyzed matters involving the use of financial data and related analytical tools by large financial services firms.
This expert has conducted research and published a peer-reviewed article regarding how a leading financial services company reengineered data flows and software systems to provide faster and better services to traders and other personnel.
Start Databases Expert SearchExpert Witness #243673
This cloud storage expert holds a PhD and is a professor at a well-regarded public university, with a substantial research focus on distributed software systems, including cloud computing architectures.
This expert regularly teaches courses on these topics, covering the foundational principles of cloud computing as well as related subjects such as data storage and database programming. This expert is also a recognized author in software security and has received numerous research grants from prominent government agencies on topics related to the security of distributed systems.
This expert has experience in litigation consulting, including prior work and testimony in cases involving cloud technologies, databases, and software security. This expert also works with highly qualified associates who can assist with source code review and preparation of infringement charts. The associates hold PhDs in Computer Science and have extensive prior experience assisting with high-profile patent litigation matters.
Start Databases Expert SearchExpert Witness #267101
This image retrieval/analysis and geospatial data expert holds a B.Sc. in Computer Engineering and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science, and has held academic and departmental leadership roles in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Spatial Sciences at a leading university.
This expert has worked on the integration of geospatial data with maps and aerial imagery.
This expert has authored a number of books and over 300 research papers in databases, GIS, and multimedia, holds over 10 U.S. patents, and is active in several industry groups.
Start Databases Expert SearchExpert Witness #271714
This biomechanics expert holds a PhD and is a licensed Professional Engineer specializing in biomechanical analysis, determination of injury causation and injury mechanisms, accident reconstruction, and mechanical engineering.
This expert also has extensive experience in computational modeling, mechanical testing, failure analysis, measurement instrumentation, inquiry and analysis of national motor vehicle injury and vehicle crash databases, and experimental design.
This expert has expertise in a wide range of investigative scenarios, including accident reconstruction, slips, trips, and falls, product premises liability claims, and injury causation.
Start Databases Expert SearchExpert Witness #275172
This usual, customary and reasonable (UCR) expert leads a healthcare consultancy specializing in medical data audit support services, predictive data analytics, data assessments and strategy support, internal control audits, compliance, risk, and vulnerability assessments for patients, providers, payers, plan sponsors, and other healthcare industry support vendors.
This expert has extensive expert testimony experience, primarily in UCR matters. The healthcare consultancy this expert founded over 30 years ago was established with a focus on UCR matters. This expert has testified on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants and has reviewed many medical bills, evaluating them with a wide variety of industry resources, including national fee analysis tools, medical fee directories, healthcare pricing databases, federal healthcare fee data, and workers' compensation fee schedules. This expert is frequently retained as a resource for UCR matters.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant. This expert has provided expert testimony in both federal and state courts, as well as mediation support in areas involving finance, business, and domestic-related issues.
Start Databases Expert SearchExpert Witness #277290
This diesel emissions testing expert owns a company that has conducted independent real-world emissions testing for over 15 years, including testing thousands of vehicles worldwide for NOx and other emissions. The company uses its own equipment, sources vehicles directly from the market, and develops test methodologies suited to the relevant hypothesis rather than merely repeating official tests. This expert developed original testing programs and methodologies, owns one of the largest databases of independent real-world emissions test data, and regularly presents results at industry conferences and in publications.
This expert has experience in case formulation and preparation, drafting expert reports, deposition and trial work, analyzing real-world test data from a wide range of European diesel vehicles and a smaller number of U.S. diesel vehicles, conducting real-world PEMS testing in multiple regions, and coordinating with local chassis dynamometer operators to reproduce certification tests.
Start Databases Expert SearchExpert Witness #284743
This source code review expert holds B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Computer Science, an MBS, and has extensive experience designing user experiences and strategic roadmaps for organizations focused on mobile, creativity, and productivity technologies.
Credited with over 5 patents involving areas such as film and video special effects, mobile software, and hardware, this expert is routinely called on as a speaker, guest lecturer, strategic consultant, and expert witness in software contract disputes and intellectual property litigation.
This expert is a former software engineering executive at a major technology company and sold a software startup to a major technology company, which provided seed funding for a subsequent software company. Speaking engagements have included prestigious developer and broadcasting conferences. Academic credentials include degrees from well-regarded universities.
This expert has written over 15 reports and rebuttals for litigation, generally involving patent and trademark infringement, trade-secret misappropriation, and contract breach. This expert has performed a number of code reviews in code bases ranging from front ends, mobile apps, and device firmware to websites, backends, and databases. This expert has also performed large source code comparisons involving mobile application code and industrial equipment software.
C and related derivative languages, as well as Python, are very familiar to this expert. This expert has worked with C-family languages for decades and has more recently used Python on machine-learning, image analysis, and database projects. This expert has also contributed to a back-end system built on Ruby on Rails.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Databases Expert SearchExpert Witness #287756
This economic damages expert has worked on hundreds of litigation consulting engagements and has testified as an expert in arbitration, state courts, and federal courts, while also providing mediation assistance in disputes requiring economic, financial, and statistical expertise, including class action litigation, labor and employment litigation, and healthcare disputes.
This expert has substantial experience in wage and hour class actions, including combining and standardizing data from large employment-related databases, payroll data, timekeeping records, telephone records, e-mail records, point-of-sale systems, video recordings, and records from other electronically stored systems generated throughout an employee's work life. These systems typically create electronic timestamps that can be used for data analysis purposes.
This expert has statistically analyzed combined databases and used the results to opine on potentially uncompensated time worked; applied advanced statistical methods such as data imputation, Monte Carlo simulation studies, time series and predictive modeling, and forecasting and backcasting to address missing data issues; designed and conducted surveys, time and motion studies, and observational studies; and statistically analyzed the results of such surveys and studies. This expert also has experience applying statistical sampling methodologies to extrapolate results from a random and representative sample to a universe of individuals, as well as applying economic theory, statistical models, and statistical tests to develop scenarios of economic loss to class members.
This expert has been retained in approximately 250 wage and hour class actions across a broad range of industries, including retail, healthcare providers, hospitality and restaurants, freight services, entertainment, banking, insurance, state workers, warehousing, call centers, software, professional services, law enforcement, newspapers, ferry crews, social workers, IT support staff, help desk employees, shipping, and administration.
Start Databases Expert SearchExpert Witness #287872
This life care planning and medical cost projections expert trained in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at a prominent medical institution and has over 20 years of clinical experience. This expert served as a medical director of a physical rehabilitation department at a hospital in Pennsylvania and continues to treat patients as a founding partner of a comprehensive outpatient physiatry private practice.
This expert has over 20 years of experience evaluating and treating patients with a broad range of physical disability and pain-related issues. This expert has extensive experience with medical cost projections, mediation statements, and life care plans for both plaintiff and defense. This expert has consulted hundreds of times with defense counsel regarding methodologies used by plaintiff life care planners to embellish costs in a life care plan, and has taught on these issues for a professional expert-witness education organization. This expert can rebut methodologies commonly used to embellish costs across categories of treatment, including databases or methodologies typically used only by plaintiff life care planners for that reason.
Start Databases Expert SearchExpert Witness #291363
This IP damages expert holds a Ph.D. and has performed valuations of intellectual property, including patents and trademarks, as well as valuations of tangible assets, including evaluating damages by applying econometric analyses to large databases.
This expert has constructed damages models in litigation involving reasonable royalties, lost profits, market share assessments, and but-for scenarios. With over 20 years of experience in consulting and economic research, this expert has worked on matters in the vape industry and has performed numerous reasonable royalty analyses for patent infringement cases.
This expert is an experienced witness and has given deposition and trial testimony in over 80 matters in federal court and at the U.S. International Trade Commission.
Start Databases Expert SearchExpert Witness #295696
This financial services industry expert is a practice leader in technology and co-leads a financial services and markets practice. Prior to expert work, this expert spent over 15 years on Wall Street as a trader, analyst, and manager of financial software systems development. This expert has served as head of operations and IT for a multibillion-dollar structured finance hedge fund platform, where this expert managed software engineers, financial market quants, and other technical specialists. This expert has managed the development of a commercial software platform for CDO and CLO valuation and surveillance and developed intra-day risk management software for an equity derivatives trading desk.
Over the last 15 years, this expert has been retained numerous times as a testifying expert in Federal court, State court, and arbitration proceedings. This expert has testified in matters involving alleged theft of trade secrets from quantitative trading hedge funds, including allegations involving algorithms, data, and systems. Other related matters have involved trade secrets concerning custom energy trading software platforms and databases, as well as partnership disputes involving alternative cryptocurrency services.
This expert has experience as an Expert Witness and Litigation Expert.
Start Databases Expert SearchExpert Witness #295702
This financial services industry expert is a senior professional at an economic consulting firm and a member of this expert faculty at a well-regarded university business school, with experience consulting on numerous matters involving valuation of securities across asset classes. This expert has also consulted on market structure, trading activity, and volume analysis in markets ranging from equities and fixed income to structured products and digital assets, including trading of exchange-listed derivatives.
This expert's prior financial industry experience includes developing trading platforms and working on the operational aspects of measuring portfolio performance. In particular, this expert has worked directly on integrating and mapping unique security identifiers, such as CUSIPs, into in-house security master databases. This expert began a career in banking, working in analyst and management roles at major financial institutions. During this period, responsibilities included daily performance calculations for portfolios and separately managed accounts, which required interfacing with trading desks and middle- and back-office teams, as well as routinely adding new securities to internal securities master databases, primarily relying on CUSIPs.
Later, this expert managed a Windows-based trading and portfolio management software platform. At the time, the platform was market-leading and provided real-time market quoting information, including prices and market depth, for listed equities to retail investors, while also allowing trading of exchange-listed derivatives.
Start Databases Expert SearchExpert Witness #298283
This financial industry software expert has decades of experience managing data in financial services organizations and has handled instrument types ranging from exchange-traded equities to OTC derivatives. This expert has been involved in building security master databases at major financial institutions and during a major financial institution merger.
Start Databases Expert SearchExpert Witness #299008
This financial industry expert has experience consulting for a federal banking regulator, leading teams that obtained financial data from banking software companies to help manage bank post-closing operations during the 2008 financial crisis.
This expert has a solid background in building and managing security master databases and has worked as a database administrator for several years. Throughout this expert's career, this expert has managed forensic data analytics teams, particularly in litigation support contexts.
This expert formulated business rules and designed an application to identify risk factors in bank data in conjunction with federal banking examiners and investigators. This expert also participated in post-closing activities for a major financial institution, identifying and transferring relevant data from software applications to systems managed by a large consulting firm.
Throughout this expert's career, this expert has performed numerous investigations and provided litigation support for various financial institutions.
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