Cloud Computing Expert Witnesses

What is a cloud computing expert witness?

Cloud computing expert witness candidates typically have extensive experience and expertise in computer science, software development, cloud storage, big data, networking, or computer security. With a concern by some experts on privacy, cyber security and computer forensics expertise is also in demand. In a high-profile case, a law firm may request an expert with prior expert witness testimony experience.

What types of cases require a cloud computing expert witness?

Cloud computing is used to describe on-demand services and data over the Internet – all saved remotely in a database. Cloud storage is an emerging technology area with ongoing research and a highly competitive landscape, and cloud patent lawsuits are expected to rise.

Cloud computing expert witness case examples

Representative cloud computing matters that have required expert witness services have involved legal issues pertaining to:

• cloud computing patent infringement, including Inter partes review (IPR),
• computer forensics, for example, disputes involving digital evidence,
• a web services company’s trade secrets stored in the cloud, and
• machine learning.

What litigation support work might a cloud computing expert witness be expected to perform?

Litigation support and digital forensic investigations in the cloud computing world have unique challenges, due to the use of remote storage and virtualization technologies. Litigation support by a cloud computing expert witness could include the review of underlying technology, authoring expert reports, providing expert opinions, and expert testimony in the courtroom.

Cahn Litigation Services has the experience required to turn a search for a cloud computing expert witness around quickly, providing the right balance of expertise and testimony experience. Leading law firms rely on the firm to provide candidates with the right balance of technical expertise and testimony experience.

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Cloud Computing Expert Witness - Representative Bios

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

• Expert Witness #211941

  This expert holds a Ph.D. in Physics and is a systems, signals and algorithms consultant to industry and legal professionals, and has many years of experience in video, imaging, modeling, simulation, and systems analysis, design, development and testing. Prior to running a successful consultancy, this expert gained experience on automated digital photogrammetry and raster/vector integration of maps with imagery at street-level, military and satellite resolution. This expert developed digital image processing algorithms to improve image and stereo-matching quality for a digital terrain modeling system based on satellite data. This expert has also developed software and algorithms for affine transformation, edge filtering, kriging interpolation and image stereo matching with sub-pixel acuity. This expert has worked on automated photogrammetric adjustment methods based on pitch, roll and yaw angles, as well coordinate determination based on codeless GPS. This expert continued working on integration of detailed maps with military imagery, developing quadtree database technology for a Combat Information Processor. This expert developed a three-axis spacecraft attitude determination system that provided solutions for pitch, roll and yaw expressed as quaternions, updated via gyroscopes and other sensors. Further, this expert developed calibration algorithms for a 3D laser scanner with street-level ranging based on point cloud technology, and also developed a nine-camera video surveillance system based on wavelet hardware. This expert has experience with video and still imagery includes research & development and publication of low latency encoder/decoder algorithms for MPEG and DICOM imagery. As a Registered Patent Agent, this expert is often called upon to serve as an expert consultant to provide technical analysis related to patent infringement, patent validity and the research tax credit.

  
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• Expert Witness #248794

  This expert is both an Independent Consultant and Expert Witness, as well as an Associate Professor of Engineering Practice. As part of this expert's academic responsibilities, this expert teaches courses on Internet of Things (IoT), Computer Networks, System-on-Chip, Special topics: Software Design and Optimization for Electrical Engineers, and System Verification where the focus is on various algorithms that directly relate to mobile transactions and the security issues associated with them. This expert also performs research on various security and safety aspects of systems, including those in IoT, cloud and data centers. Several of this expert's publications are related to security, verification and optimization of mobile/cloud/data center systems. This expert has been involved in several patent litigation matters related to cloud computing, mobile systems, edge computing, and secure software licensing transactions. This expert has given deposition testimony but has not yet testified at trial. This expert is well published and has presented at industry conferences.

  
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• Expert Witness #263553

  This expert is an internationally recognized Information and Communications Technology (ICT) architect with expertise in designing and deploying enterprise-class solutions in a wide range of technologies and business sectors. This expert's extensive experience spans industry, U.S. Government, and academia environments. This expert is also a practicing security and privacy professional, who has specialized in data protection and storage security, where this expert is recognized as one of the top experts in the world.

  This expert is an Associate Member of the American Bar Association (ABA) and been active with the Section of Science and Technology Law (SciTech). In addition to speaking and publishing on behalf of the ABA, this expert has served in several SciTech leadership roles. This expert is also actively involved in the ABA's Internet of Things (IoT) National Institute and the Artificial Intelligence National Institute.

  Additionally, this expert has actively contributed to the efforts and projects of key ICT-based standards development organizations and industry associations as part of a focus on advancing the state of various technologies. This expert's passion for technology has been recognized in the form of awards and leadership positions in organization such as ISO/IEC, the InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS), the IEEE Computer Society, the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), and the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA). This expert is or has served in an editorship role on the following international standards projects: ISO/IEC 22123 (Cloud computing -- Concepts and terminology), ISO/IEC 27031 (ICT readiness for business continuity), ISO/IEC 27050 (Electronic discovery), ISO/IEC 27040 (Storage security), ISO/IEC PAS 16248 (TLS for Storage Systems), Rec. ITU-T 3500 | ISO/IEC 17788 (Cloud computing -- Overview and vocabulary), and IEEE 1619-2018 (XTS-AES).

  This expert possesses a unique set of professional credentials that include the (ISC)2 CISSP-ISSAP, ISSMP, and ISSEP certifications as well as the ISACA CISA, IAPP CIPT, and CSA CCSK certifications.

  
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• Expert Witness #256632

  This expert is a world-renowned researcher who has extensive research, technical, managerial, and Intellectual Property/patent expertise in the areas of telecommunications, networking, broadband, MetroEthernet, SONET/SDH/OTN Internet, VoIP, wireless, video, multimedia, MPLS, IPv6, e-commerce, and IoT/M2M for both carrier networks and enterprise networks. This expert's specialties include analysis, design, implementation, operation, and advocacy of new network technologies, particularly with an emphasis on packet technologies and the Internet Protocol (IP) for traditional and broadband applications such as:

  Voice over IP (VoIP); Video Over IP (e.g., IPTV, specifically, entertainment quality digital TV, video distribution over satellite/DTH, High Throughput Satellites [HTSs], multimedia; wireless connectivity (including Wi-Fi, wireless sensor networks, and communication/DTH/HTS satellites); security; intranet; Internet/intranet architecture and QoS; IoT/M2M; LANs/VLANs/MetroEthernet; and the underlying high-capacity network infrastructure to support these applications along with the call control signaling logic (SS7/Q.931/Q.2931/Q.933) and Advanced Intelligent Network (AIN) services. Packet systems include X.25/NCP, IPv4, Frame Relay (FR), Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), MultiProtocol Label Switching (MPLS), and IPv6. This expert has also done work in cloud services (Cisco UCS) and IoT/M2M, Smart Cities, Smart Buildings, Smart Grid, and e-health.

  This expert has many years of hands-on ATM/SONET/MetroEthernet/OTN experience. In addition to numerous papers and conference presentations, this expert has written several books on LANs/VLANs/MetroEthernet, MPLS, Internet Services Cloud services, and IoT/M2M.

  This expert has over 200 published patents as well as 35 patent applications cite this expert's work. Additionally, 5000+ academic researchers cite this expert's work in their publications, according to Google Scholar. This expert has taught IT and Telecommunications courses. This expert has appeared in industry conferences as well a radio and TV technology programs.

  This expert has been called upon to undertake infringement/non-infringement analysis (with resulting depositions and testimony) in the area of packet video/IPTV, packet voice/VoIP, imaging (scanned checks), IoT, and wireless.

  
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• Expert Witness #257465

  This expert is a career security consultant in both traditional and electronic security. When with a national bank, this expert worked specifically on ATM fraud and technical cases (which did not go all the way to court). This expert authored a bank security reference guide and was a primary security consultant with a major manufacture of ATMs. This expert is an expert in ATM security best practices and has been a member of the U.S. State Department's Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC), United States Justice Department's Judicial Security Advisory Council and Cloud Security Alliance.

  
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• Expert Witness #271430

  This expert is an expert in backup/restore technology, network technology, virtualization technology, security and cloud storage. At a well-known software company, this expert spent time on the patent filter committee where this expert analyzed thousands of invention disclosures related to security and storage. This expert has worked on 19 different Inter Partes Reviews, and 11 intellectual property cases. In one case, this expert was the prime consulting expert and wrote all of the initial versions of the technical sections of the final expert report. This expert included screenshots and explanations of the defendant's software system extracted from a system that this expert installed and tested for the purposes of checking on infringement. These screenshots were instrumental in convincing the jury to rule in favor of the plaintiff. This expert is (co) author of 30+ patents, and these patents have been cited in 800 other patents.

  
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• Expert Witness #238773

  This expert has extensive experience with backup systems and computer storage. Prior to this expert's consulting business, this expert was a Director of Engineering, responsible for a cloud based backup solution that protected (backed-up) more than one million PCs and Macs. This expert supported litigation related to this product offering a patent infringement issue, where this expert provided deposition testimony, and a contract dispute where this expert provided extensive support to the attorneys as well as deposition testimony as a 30 (b) (6) witness. This expert has held numerous positions in the computer and software industry where this expert developed extensive expertise related to computer storage (including snapshot, virtualization, deduplication and other technologies).

  This expert has provided depositions and trial testimony on several occasions.

  
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• Expert Witness #263695

  This expert is a backup / restore expert of some renown. This expert has been hands-on in the industry. This expert is currently the Chief Technical Evangelist for a cloud backup, disaster recovery and long-term data retention firm providing enterprise solutions across multiple platforms including tape/disk technologies.

  This expert started a career in backups as "the backup guy" for a credit card company. This expert managed the backups as they grew from 15 to 250 servers, and from 2 operating systems to 5 operating systems, running Informix, Oracle, Sybase & other applications.

  This expert then joined a large consulting company that did well during the .com days. This expert started a company specializing in backup & recovery system design, implementation, and management. This company was ultimately acquired.

  This expert worked as an analyst, publishing many blogs, articles, and webinars. This expert has written

  three seminal books on the topic. This expert is also an independent consultant and writer and has spoken at over 300 seminars and conferences around the world.

  This expert is not a professional testifier but has served as an expert witness in patent infringement and insurance contract matters.

  
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• Expert Witness #209041

  This expert holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering and is an accomplished scientist with many years in technology and business experience, with particular strengths in vision, strategy and technology innovation. As Principal of a highly successful consultancy, this expert specializes in RTLS (real-time location systems), RFID, sensor networks, smart antennas, DAS (distributed antenna systems), intelligent transportation systems, mesh networking, WiFi, 4G LTE and WiMAX, picocells/femtocells, M2M, cloud computing, mobile crowd sourcing/sensing, enterprise mobility, security protocols, mobile embedded devices, device management, mobile applications/services, LBS, VoIP, video streaming, Zigbee, smart grid, m-health, m-learning, and smart home networking. The holder of over 50 US Patents issued or pending in RFID, mobile networks and wireless data communications, this expert has worked on RFID readers, tags and systems and developed various solutions for asset identification/tracking. This expert has served as both an Industry and government consultant, served on government expert panels (NIH, NSF) and published numerous refereed papers in prestigious journals and conference, many dealing with RFID technologies and their various applications. This expert is involved with a Center of Excellence in Wireless and Information Technology and is a faculty member of electrical and computer engineering at an internationally recognized university, where this expert serves as Industry liaison, working on intelligent transportation solutions, smart energy, and wireless healthcare. This expert additionally serves as an adjunct professor of Electrical Engineering at an Ivy League university where this expert teaches graduate courses on mobile wireless sensing networks and applications (RFID, RTLS, M2M communications, smart grid/energy, smart infrastructure, intelligent transportation, m-health). Prior to founding a consultancy, this expert served as a director, researcher and innovator for notable technology leaders. This expert has served on 15+ patent litigation cases for both plaintiffs and defendants.

  
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• Expert Witness #125107

  This high-performance hardware design/trade secret expert holds a PhD in Computer Engineering and is an adjunct professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at a well-regarded university, where graduate-level seminars on embedded computer architectures are taught. This expert is also a technologist, entrepreneur, founder of a successful technology consultancy, and managing director at a private equity angel investing firm.

  This expert has served as an expert witness or consultant in approximately 100 matters involving patents, trade secrets, and high-performance hardware and software design, with over 80 depositions and over 5 trials, including matters in EDTX, WDTX, and the International Trade Commission. Many of these matters involved hardware design, FPGA, ASICs and similar technologies, and cloud computing.

  This expert teaches and advises PhD-level research in areas such as high-performance hardware design and computer architecture and has guest lectured at various U.S. universities in computer engineering and related subjects. This expert previously held industry roles at major technology and semiconductor research organizations involving high-performance microprocessor and hardware accelerator design and related technologies.

  This expert has authored numerous IEEE and ACM publications and textbooks in areas such as high-performance hardware and software design, embedded and real-time processing, signal processing, and sensor technology. This expert has also chaired conferences and served on steering committees for IEEE and ACM industry conferences for over 15 years.

  This expert has authored open-source hardware design infrastructures and system-level simulation tools used at various U.S. universities, including tools for designing hardware accelerators for multimedia, telecommunications, and graphics processing workloads. This expert has significant experience designing and reverse engineering large-scale hardware, software, and firmware systems involving more than 10 million lines of computer code.

  This expert's academic background includes graduate degrees in Computer Engineering from a well-regarded university and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from a well-regarded technical university, with doctoral work focused on chipsets and software solutions for wireless technologies. This expert has also served as a company founder, co-founder, advisory board member, and board member.

  This expert currently serves in a leadership role for an IEEE/ACM design automation conference track and sits on a technical committee for an IEEE real-time systems symposium. This expert has extensive experience in reverse engineering and source code review involving millions of lines of software and hardware source code, has architected open-source computer architecture simulation environments used for hardware/software system design at various U.S. universities, and is a named inventor on multiple U.S. patents involving client/server computing and embedded operating systems.

  This expert is a highly experienced litigation consultant.

  
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• Expert Witness #218696

  This packet monitoring expert holds a PhD and is a professor at a prestigious university, as well as head of a computer systems and networks performance engineering lab. This expert's research contributions span high-speed networking and packet switching, the Internet, cloud computing and data centers, multimedia streaming, information service engineering, and computer systems security.

  This expert has been deposed over 10 times, has testified in court, has prepared reports from multiple perspectives, and has provided technical tutorials to judges.

  
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• Expert Witness #226479

  This cloud storage expert holds a PhD, is a Professor of Computer Science, and conducts research in the broad area of parallel and distributed systems. The work focuses predominantly on edge and cloud computing, mobile computing, Internet of Things, and high-performance computing, with subtopics including storage systems, resource management, and security.

  This expert has consulted on a range of technical and legal projects, including expert analysis, patent examination, intellectual property, and industrial projects, in the areas of Internet applications, mobile computing, distributed systems, and cloud computing.

  
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• Expert Witness #231689

  This network monitoring expert holds a Ph.D. and has many years of experience in wireless communications, AI, cloud computing, IOT, electronic devices, and other advanced software platforms. This expert is an expert in technology and venture funding, is a hands-on coder, and creates prototypes for many products developed through an incubator, with familiarity in code reviews, hardware, and software audits. This expert earned a B.Sc. in Electronics Engineering from a technology institute and a M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from a well-regarded university.

  This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.

  
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• Expert Witness #233218

  This server farm architecture and distributed systems expert holds Ph.D. and M.Sc. degrees in Computer and Information Science from a well-regarded university, with doctoral work focused on real-time distributed knowledge-based computing.

  This expert has over 30 years of direct hands-on experience with server farms across several continents, including Europe. Experience includes hands-on creation, management, and configuration of hardware and software; specifying policy, implementation, and software; supervising staff; and analyzing and diagnosing server systems from applications down to physical hardware.

  This expert directed applied research on client-server and distributed computing systems for many years, including for government clients. This expert has served in senior technology officer roles for organizations with large-scale distributed computing operations, including a major public broadband company with its own server farm and international land and satellite operations, an investment bank with nationwide distributed computing operations, and a digital media and SaaS workflow service provider managing a substantial share of digital film and television industry assets with server farms on multiple continents, including Europe, and worldwide public and private cloud operations.

  This expert's Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science was focused on software and performance of distributed computing systems. This expert also served as president of an electronics company with international sales, overseeing server operations and specifying and implementing EU GDPR compliance.

  This expert has served as an expert witness in over 20 engagements, many involving server and distributed computing issues, with thousands of pages of expert reports authored and over 100 hours of on-record testimony. This expert has performed successful expert discovery forensics on millions of software files and has frequently identified violations including patent infringement, trade secret violations, and spoliation of evidence.

  This expert has extensive forensics experience in client-server systems, including server log and file analysis of hundreds of thousands of files.

  
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• Expert Witness #238646

  This server architecture and distributed systems expert holds a PhD and is a Distinguished Professor in a computer information science and engineering department at a well-regarded university. This expert is a fellow of several prominent technical and artificial intelligence associations and a past member of an international committee on system modeling and optimization. This expert has received a research impact award from a prominent cloud computing technical committee, and this expert's research has been funded by major government agencies and transportation, science, and energy organizations.

  This expert's research and professional work over the past two decades has focused on large-scale distributed computing systems, including geographically distributed server architectures, data replication across data centers, and the coordination of services across multiple regions. These systems commonly rely on master/replica configurations, synchronization protocols, and write-authority mechanisms that maintain data consistency and operational coordination across distributed infrastructure.

  In a senior technology leadership role at a technology company, this expert designed and deployed a real-time, fault-tolerant distributed server platform that processed millions of automated decisions per day with high uptime. The system operated across multiple servers and required careful design of replication, synchronization, and high-availability mechanisms in a distributed environment. Through both industry experience and academic research, this expert has worked extensively with architectures in which data and services are coordinated across geographically distributed computing infrastructure.

  This expert's academic research has also included extensive work on grid computing and modern cloud and large-scale data platforms. This expert is the named inventor on numerous U.S. patents related to machine learning, distributed systems, and optimization technologies, and has received a cloud computing research impact award for contributions in this area.

  This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.

  
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• Expert Witness #243379

  This cloud storage/computing expert holds a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Physics, has worked in computing and technology for over 40 years, and is recognized in cloud computing from infrastructure to SaaS in both industry and academic circles.

  This expert has constructed cloud data centers and used those environments to build, deploy, and operate SaaS applications for millions of users globally and for world-class scientific and research teams. This expert has extensive experience in distributed and cloud computing, including network cloud storage, data management and analytics, and encryption and compression methods for cloud storage.

  This expert also has experience working with a U.S. standards institute and a prominent standards association to develop standards on cloud computing and SaaS, including contributing to a government cloud computing technology roadmap. This expert has served as a Lecturer and Course Developer on cloud computing at the university level at multiple universities.

  
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• Expert 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.

  
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• Expert Witness #263688

  This high-performance computer/hardware expert holds a PhD and has expertise in computer science, high-performance computer systems, hardware, low-level software, patent valuation, IP consulting, and expert witness work. This expert is currently the sole proprietor of a technology consulting firm and previously served as an associate professor of Electrical Engineering at a prestigious university.

  This expert has over 30 years of research experience involving high-performance computer systems, hardware, and low-level software. This expert is also a named inventor on over 95 U.S. patents, including several related to data center technologies.

  At a prestigious university, this expert led a student research laboratory funded by a prominent government research agency and researched reconfigurable computing based on a wide range of FPGA architectures.

  This expert has been engaged as an expert witness in several DDR DRAM matters over the past few years.

  This expert's earliest engagement with ASIC design dates back to work at a major technology company in the early 1990s, where this expert developed an ASIC for a portable communications device. The work involved testing and the memory management subsystem.

  Throughout this expert's career, the underlying focus has been on high-performance computing in general and, in particular, embedded environments such as those that appear in cloud computing.

  This expert has significant experience writing reports for IP cases, has been deposed many times, and has testified before U.S. District Court and the ITC. Testifying experience includes computer architecture, on-chip networks, GPU, Operating Systems, Cellular Standards, Touch Screens, DDR4 DRAM, streaming video, and mesh networks.

  
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• Expert Witness #277324

  This digital forensics expert holds a BSBA and is a Certified Forensics Consultant with over 30 years of experience in data recovery from several media types, including disk drives, cloud computing, and other electronic and digital media. This expert serves in a senior role at a computer and digital forensics and electronic discovery firm and belongs to several professional organizations in the forensic expert witness and computer forensics fields.

  This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.

  
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• Expert Witness #288350

  This networking, datacenters, and switches/routers expert is a recognized academic specialist in networking, datacenters, and switches/routers, with prior departmental leadership in Electrical and Computer Engineering. This expert holds bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering and a PhD in Electrical Engineering.

  This expert currently directs a high-speed networking research lab, leading a team of research faculty and graduate students. This expert conducts research in software defined networking, network function virtualization, datacenter networks, high-speed packet processing, switching, routing, network security, quality of service control, and network on chip. This expert holds over 55 patents and has published over 200 journal and conference papers. This expert has researched and taught Data Centers and Cloud Computing for more than 10 years and currently teaches a graduate course on Data Centers and Cloud Computing. This expert has worked in telecommunications for over 40 years, written a number of networking books, and has many years of hardware design experience.

  This expert co-founded a networking technology company and formerly served in a senior technology leadership role, leading a team that implemented a multi-terabit Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) switch router with carrier-class reliability. This expert also served as technical staff at a telecommunications research organization and was involved in transport and switching system architecture designs and Application-specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC) implementations. This expert previously worked as a senior engineer at a telecommunications laboratory performing circuit designs for a digital telephone switching system for a number of years.

  This expert is a Fellow of a national inventors academy for demonstrated innovation in creating or facilitating inventions with tangible impact. This expert is also a Fellow of a prominent electrical and electronics engineering professional association for contributions to the architecture and application of VLSI circuits in high-speed packet networks and has received speaker recognition from a regional section of that association.

  This expert has served as a guest editor for a leading communications journal on special topics including advances in ATM switching systems for B-ISDN, next-generation IP switches and routers, high-performance optical/electronic switches/routers for high-speed internet, and high-speed network security.

  
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