Automotive Electronics Expert Witnesses

What is an automotive electronics expert witness?

Automotive electronics expert witness candidates typically have extensive experience and areas of expertise in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, automotive design, human factors, biomechanics, systems engineering, automotive repair, and/or automotive engineering. The chosen expert may be associated with an industry organization such as the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), SEMI, or the Electronic Components Industry Association (ECIA).

What types of cases require an automotive electronics expert witness?

Often, matters requiring automotive electronics expert witness services involve intellectual property, such as patent infringement litigation or trade secret disputes. A forensic expert can reverse engineer components to prove (or disprove) intellectual property infringement or theft. An expert with specialized knowledge in automotive electronics might also provide testimony in a personal injury case, a product liability case involving failure analysis, or to assist in a vehicle accident investigation.

What litigation support work might an automotive electronics expert witness be expected to perform?

Litigation support by an automotive expert could include forensic engineering, claim charts for infringement/non-infringement contentions, accident reconstruction, and expert witness testimony in the courtroom. In addition, clients may seek an automotive industry expert for pre-litigation consulting services.

Cahn Litigation Services has the experience required to turn a search for an automotive electronics expert witness around quickly, providing the right balance of expertise and testimony experience.

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Automotive Electronics Expert Witness - Representative Bios

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The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Automotive Electronics experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Automotive Electronics landscape.

• Expert Witness #237274

  This expert has many years of experience in the automotive industry and is a veteran of automotive component litigation, having testified at trial numerous times in high profile matters. This expert is experienced in diesel engines, diesel engine control systems, diesel engine fueling systems, diesel engine fueling system sensors, and diesel engine fuel nozzle restrictors. In addition, this expert has extensive experience in trucks and the associated diesel engine and diesel engine fueling systems, as well as the associated Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards, such as FMVSS 301 – Fuel System Integrity.

  This expert has extensive experience in infringement/non-infringement, patent validity/invalidity, thoroughly understands the issues involved in intellectual property and patent litigation, and is a registered patent attorney with the USPTO. This expert has done analyses under literal infringement and under the doctrine of equivalents, as well as direct infringement, contributory infringement, inducement of infringement, and willful infringement. This expert has authored numerous reports and declarations, claim charts, invalidity and validity arguments, and has been deposed and testified in Inter Partes Review proceedings before the PTAB, as well as various Federal District Courts.

  This expert is a Licensed Professional Engineer with a BS in Chemical Engineering, and a BS and an MS in Electrical Engineering.

  
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• Expert Witness #259805

  This expert holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering and a PhD in Electrical Engineering, and serves as an electrical engineering professor as well as a director of a transportation electronics laboratory. This expert is also a Professional Engineer (P.E.), and leads a highly successful, internationally recognized consultancy specializing in forensic electrical and software engineering in automotive and transportation systems.

  This expert held positions with major industrial companies, and served as a director of an alternative fuels laboratory at a research institute. This expert has published over 125 technical journal and conference papers and serves on the editorial review boards of four journals. This expert’s consulting firm focuses on electronic analysis and data extraction in support of automotive intellectual property expert witness services, lemon law investigation and documentation, and product evaluation for safety, performance or compliance with specifications.

  This expert has extensive automotive electronics experience: academic research, hands on projects and IP/ IPR EE cases. This expert has faced the challenges of EM noise intrusion in the automotive environment and SOTA EM shielding and other methods to improve signal to noise ratio.

  
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• Expert Witness #259822

  This expert spent most of this expert's career specializing in Automotive Electronics Systems and Electric Vehicle hardware design and manufacturing, and served as Department Head of Advanced Instrumentation and Display, Director of all Advanced Development and Systems Integration, Vice President of Engineering Design and release of product designs for the Asia/Pacific market, and Managing Director of a Multi-Media Product and Systems product line. This expert has consulting experience working for Tier One (supplying directly to a vehicle manufacturer) and Tier Two (supplying to a Tier One) engaged in automotive electronic device and systems design for the North American market but with the primary supplier client-based in Asia/Pacific, North America, or Europe.

  -  In almost all of these design projects this expert had to be aware of both the radiation that these new products emanated across the electromagnetic spectrum and also the potential effect of radiation that impinged on these products/systems coming from other electronic devices/products/systems in or around the vehicle in question.

  -  Mechanisms to deal with EMI covered the normal and typical wide range of solutions including: solutions on board circuit board designs, system shielding in wiring of various sorts, and shielding in wrap-around metal boxes for various subsystem boxes with electronic products contained therein.

  -  The product/systems range that this expert dealt with included audio systems, infotainment (e.g. including navigation) systems, telematics systems including analog and digital telephony, instrumentation systems and displays in front of the driver and along the car midline between the driver and passenger, many safety products and systems including stability control, airbag, anti-skid braking, forward looking object detection/warning/avoidance systems (lasers and optical systems), tire pressure monitors, engine and transmission control systems, electric vehicle electronic systems, etc.

  This expert has extensive expert witness experience. This expert has worked for both Defendants (60%) & Plaintiffs (40%), and experience with IPRs, PGRs, and in District Court. This expert has taken on 19 expert cases, 9 w/one or more IPRs/PGRs, worked with 23 different law firms, performed prior art searches, authored dozens of written declarations and reports, and provided 10 Depositions/Testimony.

  
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• Expert Witness #236196

  This PCB/electronics expert holds a BS in Physics, an MS in Electrical Engineering, and an MS and PhD in Engineering Mechanics, and is a Professional Engineer with fellowship recognition from several prominent engineering, reliability, materials, automotive, and microelectronics packaging associations. This expert has served in editor-in-chief roles for prominent engineering and reliability publications for over 5 years, over 5 years, and over 15 years, respectively, and has also served as an editor for an electronics-related publication. This expert has served in an editor-in-chief role for a prominent engineering journal, participated in a number of national science academy studies and U.S. Congressional investigations in automotive safety, and served as an expert to a federal food and drug regulatory agency.

  This expert is a university professor in both Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mathematics and has directed an engineering center funded by over 150 leading electronics companies worldwide. This expert is the author of over 30 books on product reliability, development, use, and supply chain management, as well as a series of books on the electronics industry in several Asian markets. This expert has written over 700 technical articles, holds over 10 patents, received a major award for visionary leadership in the development of physics-of-failure-based and prognostics-based approaches to electronics reliability, and was also awarded a fellowship for innovations in prognostics and systems health management. This expert has experience with PCBs and electronics, international teaching assignments and awards, and significant expert witness experience.

  
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• Expert Witness #253707

  This music royalties and copyright damages expert is a highly experienced music copyright financial damages expert witness with over 35 years of music industry experience. This expert has served as a royalty auditor and as the head of an internal audit department for multiple music labels.

  This expert has been retained as a financial damages expert witness for musicians and music owners. Additional industries include media and entertainment, including film, television, motion pictures, and music copyright, as well as consumer products, electronics, software, apparel, partnerships, toys, foods, spirits, and automotive matters.

  This expert has been retained as an expert witness in many music litigation matters to compute lost profits, unjust enrichment, statutory damages, and other similar damages related to musical compositions.

  
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• Expert Witness #282754

  This consumer products design expert holds a PhD, is a PE, and has extensive experience in consumer product design and development, as well as technical expertise in patent-related matters.

  This expert has been retained in several cases involving folding and collapsing consumer products, including children's play yards, mobile phone cases, and sockets for mobile electronics. In an academic professor role, this expert taught principles behind foldable products, including linkage design, material selection, fastener selection, and safety requirements, and advised design projects related to foldable devices such as camper slide-outs, folding automotive roof racks, and wheelchairs.

  This expert's industrial experience included serving as an engineering director at a consumer products company, where responsibilities involved directing product development activities in a marketing-driven environment. Aesthetics and user functionality were important product aspects because those features often drove sales of personal care products such as hair dryers, electric shavers, and related products. This expert is therefore well positioned to identify functional and ornamental design elements.

  This expert has been retained as an expert in patent matters in over 40 cases and has never been excluded as an expert because of a Daubert motion. This expert has given deposition testimony many times, testified before the ITC in patent-related matters, and supported IPR and PGR matters before the PTAB.

  
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• Expert Witness #282952

  This product quality certification expert is an electrical engineer with broad expertise in design and quality review of household and commercial products, industrial systems, and automotive electronics, with a focus on manufacturability, safety, and reliability.

  This expert has consulted on several projects involving industrial, commercial, and consumer electronic products at each stage of design and development, from inception to manufacturing. This includes assessing products for compliance with safety and design standards such as ANSI, UL, and CSA. Standards such as those developed by ANSI are generally voluntary but provide a solid framework for designing a safe and reliable system or product.

  This expert has extensive experience testing products under these standards, reviewing technical specifications and design documents, and performing gap analyses to evaluate conformance or non-conformance with applicable standards.

  
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• Expert Witness #286387

  This automotive electronics, control systems, and failure analysis expert has expertise in electrical and electronic systems, including advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), automotive electronics, consumer electronics, electric vehicles (EVs), and other battery-powered devices, and holds a BS in Electrical Engineering (EE), an MS in EE, and a PhD focused on electronics, closed-loop feedback-based systems, and component/system integration.

  This expert specializes in evaluating the safety of electrical system designs, including failure analysis investigations and product liability issues. This expert has expertise in evaluating technologies for efficacy under diverse environmental conditions, variability in design implementation and sensor utilization, and performance across a wide variety of scenarios. These evaluations are supported by rigorous design analyses, extensive performance testing, and simulated-failure testing.

  This expert focuses on the analysis of complex control systems, large-scale and small-scale protection circuitry, device construction quality, and complete system functionality and performance. This expert works extensively on evaluating the safety of consumer and automotive electronics through component and system-level design reviews, electrical testing, and on-site inspections, and regularly performs failure analysis investigations relating to home, automotive, and industrial claims.

  This expert has a deep understanding of relay technology, functionality, and failure, is a registered PE with electrical and electronics expertise in Arizona, and has over 10 years of post-PhD experience in failure analysis, electronics design review, and risk analysis.

  
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• Expert Witness #286387

  This EV charging expert holds a PhD, is a PE, and has many years of experience investigating the safety, reliability, and performance of EV electrical, electronic, and control systems, as well as EV charging infrastructure. This expert has expertise in EV charging protocols, standards, and risks associated with EV charging across different vehicle manufacturers, EV charging station technologies, and charge port designs.

  
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• Expert Witness #293789

  This human factors/operator-vehicle interaction expert holds a PhD, is a Certified Human Factors Professional (CHFP) and Certified Safety Professional (CSP), and serves as a principal consultant for a respected human factors and safety consultancy. This expert holds graduate and undergraduate degrees in Experimental, Human Factors, and Cognitive/Perceptual Psychology, as well as graduate degrees in Industrial Engineering and Business. This expert has over 40 years of experience in field and laboratory research involving control and display systems, aviation, surface vehicles, accident investigation, product design and development, and operational testing and analysis.

  This expert spent over 25 years in U.S. military and reserve service, retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel. While in uniform, this expert worked with a military research laboratory primarily in pilot-vehicle interface design, display technologies, and aircrew training. This expert consults on human factors, applied human performance, ergonomics, and safety.

  Areas of particular expertise include human-machine interface design and evaluation; human capabilities and limitations in applied environments; industrial ergonomics; instructions and warnings; perception, vision, visibility, slips, trips, and falls; evaluation of equipment, facilities, and structures from a human-use standpoint; and safety-related issues generally.

  This expert has experience with operator-machine interaction, including designing controls and displays for both air and ground vehicles. This expert also has experience as a senior human factors engineer for an automotive electronics division and began a career designing controls and displays for high-performance aircraft while serving in the military.

  This expert is recognized in operator-vehicle interaction and has authored over 60 technical papers, research reports, and book chapters addressing human factors, industrial ergonomics, safety, and accident investigation. This expert has been awarded a number of U.S. patents, along with industry awards for new product design, and has served on national standards-making committees for a variety of standards organizations, including ANSI, ASTM, and SAE.

  This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant. This expert has provided expert testimony in state and Federal courts across the country and has acted as lead investigator in hundreds of projects over more than 20 years.

  
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• Expert Witness #299286

  This EPCI expert holds a PhD and is an academic professor specializing in analog electronics, power electronics, and automotive systems.

  This expert has extensive experience with high currents, high voltage, and system protection.

  This expert has served as an expert witness in several high-profile matters involving automotive and electronics issues.

  
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