Control Systems Expert Witnesses
What is a control systems expert witness?
Control system expert witness candidates are typically licensed professional engineers, with backgrounds in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, robotics, human factors, embedded systems, and/or control systems engineering. Expert witnesses hold advanced degrees (PE and/or PhD) often with specialization in electronics, telecommunications, or software expertise.
What types of cases require a control systems expert witness?
Legal cases involving control system technology that Cahn Litigation Services locates expert witnesses for often involve intellectual property, such as a patent infringement case or trade secret dispute. Forensic engineering of components can prove (or disprove) intellectual property infringement or theft. A control systems expert might also provide expert testimony in a product liability case or be called upon to testify in an industrial control system accident investigation.
What litigation support work might a control systems expert witness be expected to perform?
Expert witness services could include forensic engineering, failure analyses, patent invalidity and validity arguments, providing expert opinions, authoring expert reports, and expert testimony at a trial.
Cahn Litigation Services has the experience required to turn a search for a control systems expert witness around quickly, providing the right balance of expertise and testimony experience.
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Control Systems Expert Witness - Representative Bios
Please Note: All Cahn Litigation expert witness searches are customized to attorneys' precise specifications and preferences. Attorneys are encouraged to discuss search parameters with a Cahn search specialist.
The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Control Systems experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Control Systems landscape.
Expert Witness #254474
This expert is an electrical engineering expert with many years of hands-on experience in industrial controls, automation, machinery, equipment, industrial safety and machine safeguarding. This expert applies expertise to forensic casework involving industrial controls, machine safeguarding, workplace safety, industrial/commercial/residential electric power systems, electrical related fires, electric shocks, and electrocutions. This expert is proficient in the National Electrical Code, National Electrical Safety Code, Electrical Safety in the Workplace, OSHA Standards for General Industry, and OSHA Electrical Safety Standards.
For many years this expert was a controls engineer for a control system integrator, where this expert was involved in control panel design, industrial automation, machine control, electrical design, software programming, installation, electrical contractor supervision, machine safeguarding, commissioning, project management, electrical power distribution and workplace safety. This expert was a corporate engineer performing electrical engineering in 4 different manufacturing facilities, including industrial controls, automation, process control, process engineering, quality control, robotics, industrial safety, machine safeguarding manufacturing supervision, and product development.
This expert is a licensed Professional Engineer in more than 20 states and a member of the National Academy of Forensic Engineers (NAFE), National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE), American Association of Safety Engineers (ASSE) as well as the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
This expert provides technical investigations, analysis, reports, and testimony toward the resolution of commercial and personal injury litigation involving design, construction, operation, maintenance and training of electrical systems, equipment and devices.
This expert’s areas of expertise include:
Automation, controls, automated manufacturing, automated assembly lines, conveyors, robotics, material handling, packaging, robotic cells, automated storage and retrieval systems (ASRS), test cells, gantries, cranes, elevators, conveyors, lifts, turn tables, pumps, fans, scales, instrumentation, motion control, process control, boiler control, steam control, speed control, industrial controls, HVAC systems, air conditioners, air handling, boilers, compressed air, exhaust, centrifugal and absorption chillers, heaters, ovens, presses, grinders, cutting, broaching, stamping presses, hydraulics, pneumatics, vision, inspection, weighing, RFID, barcode, RF Radios, recipe/batch management, gas analyzers, motor controls, motion control, electrical control panels, control panel design/build (UL certified), PLC, HMI, MES, SCADA and software development, industrial communications (wired and wireless), information systems, data collection, data reporting, alarming, and industrial safety.
This expert’s expertise also extends to:
Industrial control software, programmable logic controllers (PLC), human machine interface (HMI), graphical user interface (GUI), supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA). Other software Visual Basic, C++, Microsoft SQL. PLC Software, Allen Bradley/Rockwell RSLogix/5/500/5000/IPDS, Siemens S5/S7/TIA Portal, Mitsubishi MEDOC/GX Developer/GX Works, Omron, Telemechanique, Modicon,B+R, Opto22, Steeplechase VLC, PC Worx, Wago, Automation Direct, Koyo HMI / GUI / SCADA Software, Rockwell RSView, Rockwell FactoryTalk, Allen Bradley Panelbuilder, Siemens WinCC, Mitsubishi GOT, Mitsubishi GX Worx, Wonderware, Intellution, Iconics, Cimplicity, Proficy iFix, Indusoft, Automation Direct C-more, Industrial Communication Networks, Ethernet, Profibus, Profinet, Ethernet I/P, DeviceNet, ControlNet, Interbus, and ASi-Bus.
Start Control Systems Expert SearchExpert Witness #121559
This expert holds a Ph.D. in electronics engineering and control systems and has a very strong background in embedded systems, both hardware and software, which is what the IoT is built upon. This expert has been working on and designing microcontroller based systems for many years. This expert has design experience in digital, analog and RF electronic hardware and understands the hardware aspects of IoT based system. This expert has also designed and developed the software to run many embedded systems, including systems that tied into the internet. This expert is working with the Air Force researching, designing and developing the control of UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles or drones). This project involves going from sensor inputs to control of the UAV and coordinating control over wireless networks between multiple UAVs and a ground station. Additionally, this expert is working on a control system for a wheelchair to make it possible for quadriplegics to drive and control the wheelchair through head movement controls. This project involves electronic hardware design of the system, and all the software design and development to go from sensor inputs to control of the chair. The system uses wireless network interfaces to get sensor data from the head to a computer control system and tie in remote computer monitoring. This expert has extensive litigation experience including multiple depositions and trial testimony.
Start Control Systems Expert SearchExpert Witness #209092
This expert has many years of experience in Computer Science, Security network communications, Remote control, and monitoring systems. This expert has specialized in wireless and cloud based security applications monitored from mobile applications, and device controls configured by user profiles.
This expert has been an expert for over 25 cases including 12 remote control and security network communications and patent litigation cases. This expert has provided Expert Reports, IPR, CBM, Deposition, and Trial Testimony. This includes testifying in a technology patent suit for remote authorization from a mobile device, where the judge found for this expert’s client and cited this expert on all points of contention. This expert’s analysis also contributed to a $35 million settlement in a Network Transaction systems patent litigation.
Sample of Professional Experience
Designed computer control systems and user control panels for remote control of manufacturing equipment.
Implemented remote monitoring of telephone facilities including central office switch buildings. Application included remote control of X10 monitoring devices and alarm activation operating on local secure networks and external networks.
Development of remote monitoring applications for monitoring of utility buildings including powerline monitoring utilizing Network alarm notification. Also implemented system for remote meter reading and remote control of appliances.
Development of mobile applications (iPhone and Android), high speed wireless communications, WiFi security mesh networks, and performed evaluation of secure networks and telecommunication system.
Start Control Systems Expert SearchExpert Witness #243851
This expert is a Professional Engineer with an MS in Electrical Engineering. This expert has extensive experience in industrial controls, including developing ladder logic and source code. This expert has designed processing machinery, material handling systems, tooling, industrial controls, data acquisition systems, and safety interlocks for manufacturing lines. This expert has created mechanical drawings, electrical wiring diagrams, electrical schematics, and control logic. This expert has led seminars and continuing education workshops related to designing analog block logic, digital ladder logic for process control applications, human-machine interface (HMI) graphics, wiring, and hardware for distributed control system (DCS) applications. As a Consulting Engineering Manager, this expert managed intellectual property and regulatory compliance matters, and developed, designed, and tested digital and analog electronics, embedded systems, industrial control system logic, and mechanical components for the food, consumer product, medical device, transportation, utility, HVAC, and agricultural equipment industries. As Plant Engineer, this expert designed machine elements, tooling, and automated control systems for food production lines. This expert is the author of numerous technical and programming publications, is a patent holder, and has provided expert witness services for over 15 years, testifying in depositions and in the courtroom.
Start Control Systems Expert SearchExpert Witness #121596
This expert is a nationally recognized expert in the field of telecommunications and information technology. This expert’s expertise encompasses a broad range of technical and managerial disciplines including voice communications, data networking, carrier services for public/private switched & dedicated networks, image processing, wireless and cable transmission systems, security systems including intruder detection, access control and video surveillance as well as operational and strategic planning. As co-founder and President of a highly sought-after consultancy, this expert is responsible for overseeing corporate operations and providing executive level direction on strategically significant projects. This expert has worked for various organizations in a consultative, design/engineering and managerial capacity. This expert has supported numerous clients with respect to technology consulting in the financial services, high technology, legal, corporate, health care and education sectors. This expert’s technical practice encompasses strategic planning and expert witness litigation support. This expert worked in the military aerospace industry developing strategic and tactical command and control systems for various agencies in the defense and intelligence communities. In addition to litigation experience, this expert and firm have performed an extensive patent portfolio review for a large company working with their in-house Intellectual Property group. In that project this expert evaluated 2 portfolios comprising over 120 patents. The team is highly knowledgeable about the Switched Ethernet and Optical networking marketplace.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Packet Radio
- Packet Switching /Internet Protocol
- Packet Speech / Voice over IP
- Satellite communications
- Telephone switching systems
- Video Surveillance Systems & Video Digitization
- Voice digitization/voice processing
- Voice messaging
- Wireless Communications Systems
- Automated out dialing systems
- Access control systems
- Automatic Call Distribution (ACD) & Interactive Voice Response (IVR)
- Cabling & Wire-based systems
- Cellular telephony
- Intrusion detection systems
- LOS Microwave Systems
- Mission - Critical Infrastructure Design for Data Centers
- Mobility management
Start Control Systems Expert SearchExpert Witness #216339
This expert is an engineer and former public-company executive who consults in engineering, patents, and management. This expert’s long career spans industrial, oilfield, and medical interests, both domestic and international. This expert’s experience includes electrical and electronic engineering, pneumatic and hydraulic equipment, automated control systems, and construction.
This expert holds an M.S. in Engineering and is licensed in both electrical engineering and control systems engineering. This expert has been admitted to the National Academy of Forensic Engineers, and has been certified in Systems Integration as well as Computer Forensics. This expert is qualified as a Master Electrician and has been licensed as an electrical/instrumentation contractor. This expert was granted a patent for a nuclear medical device, has taught at two universities, and has qualified as an expert witness in US Federal Court.
As VP at an automation and controls company, this expert provided control system design and fabrication for a manufacturer and operator of heavy lift equipment. This expert was employed in an adjunct capacity as a Senior Consultant to help a new company with projects related to heavy lift and other applications.
Start Control Systems Expert SearchExpert Witness #260722
This expert has many years of extensive experience in the power generation field. This expert's air pollution control system experience includes wet and dry FGD systems, low-NOx burners/combustion controls, SCRs, SNCRs, ESPs, and baghouses for boilers and SCRs for gas turbines. This expert has provided testimony to various legislative committee on the impact of air pollution control legislation. This expert has in-depth knowledge of combustion processes and the control of dioxins through combustion technologies and mercury control in power plants and waste-to-energy facilities. This expert is also experienced in project development, financing, conceptual engineering, evaluation of business ventures including feasibility and risk analysis, and contract negotiations. This expert has assisted in compliance strategies for current and emerging air pollution rules and regulations, technology transfer and acquisition of technologies. This expert is a recipient of numerous certifications and awards based on work in the waste-to-energy and fossil-fuel industries and has published over 100 technical papers on environmental issues.
This expert started working with activated carbon for mercury (Hg) control many years ago with mercury control on waste-to-energy plants. This expert was involved in research work that used both brominated and un-brominated activated carbon for coal-fired applications, and was importing activated carbons. This expert went to work leading a mercury control business unit. Part of this expert's responsibility was importing, marketing, and technical support for activated carbon products. This expert was involved in several DOE test programs evaluating various activated carbons. This expert is very familiar with many competitor's products and methods of injecting activated carbons.
This expert leads a highly respected energy consultancy, specializing in emission compliance strategies, business development as related to EPA regulations, and licensing of new technologies. This expert also provides strategic planning assistance with compliance strategies for current and emerging air pollution rules and regulations. This includes, among others, regulatory applicability analysis, control technology evaluations, and integrated compliance strategies and compliance options for viable long-term viability.
This expert has prior litigation experience.
Start Control Systems Expert SearchExpert Witness #216323
This expert holds a PhD in Robotics and Automation, is a Professional Engineer, and brings to the table many years of experience in automation systems with specific expertise in instrumentation, control, and software related to electro-mechanical systems. This expert has successfully applied these core strengths in numerous industries including: manufacturing; medical and biomedical; nanotechnology and semiconductor. A former Chief Scientist of a robotics research group and technical architect of multi-million dollar projects with Fortune 500 companies and Federal agencies, this expert has written five copyrighted software systems. This expert has worked extensively with:
- factory automation and factory automation software- process control- computer controlled machines- robotics software and manufacturing software- software source code languages for programming machines- designing machines and motion control systems- programmable logic controllers and their softwareThis expert has courtroom experience with analyzing software in theft of trade secrets and patent cases. This expert accepts a small number of litigation support engagements to complement regular work as a professional engineer designing automation and machine control systems.
Start Control Systems Expert SearchExpert Witness #216672
This expert is an electrical engineer with many years of experience as a testifying and consulting expert. This expert's background specific to programmable controllers began with early TV remote controls. This expert's experience includes analysis and programming of complex remotes that implement activities beginning with a Universal 850 and several generations of remotes. This Founder of a successful consulting firm providing advisement in the areas of system design and litigation support in patent cases, this expert served as an expert witness in a case involving the control of medical devices. This expert's design engineering experience includes, in addition to processor design, the design of computer peripheral controllers including communications control for medical apparatus, as well as units containing communications ports for IR and wired serial data. This expert is well versed in all forms of control systems, including Bluetooth and protocols for handshaking and communication, embedded systems and the related software. With a general background in computer communications, peripheral controllers and central processors, this expert has a particularly deep background in assisting counsel with claim construction, as well as providing deposition and trial testimony. This expert has worked on more than one hundred patent matters, having written reports, provided deposition testimony and has been to trial in over twenty, for and against the patent holder. These cases include embedded control of mechanisms and processes including medical equipment control. In addition to these hardware centered assignments, this expert has worked on software in the same embedded systems noted above, device drivers for computer peripherals and application programs including transaction processing systems.
Start Control Systems Expert SearchExpert Witness #236459
This expert has been involved in robotics control systems research for many years, and has published significantly in the area. This expert has been teaching classes on intelligent robotic systems and computational vision and robotics. In addition, this expert was the founder of a company which has deployed more than 6,000 robotic systems worldwide. This expert’s litigation experience is extensive. This expert is currently a professor, as well as the director of a robotics institute, and is involved in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. This expert holds PhD and MS degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Start Control Systems Expert SearchExpert Witness #250772
This expert is Director of the Advanced Vehicle Systems Research Program at a research university. This expert is an expert in automotive drivetrain technology and extensively studies, publishes and teaches on oscillation, vibration and flexure of drivetrains. This expert's primary focus is on electrical and mechanical systems including imbalance issues, and the attendant noise and vibrations that occur, specifically the dynamics and analysis of mechanical vibrations on rotating and linear devices. This expert is a member of the society of Automotive engineers (SAE) and is a registered Professional Engineer. This expert has experience as an expert witness, having testified approximately a dozen times in court, and providing upwards of twenty depositions, primarily in patent matters.
Start Control Systems Expert SearchExpert Witness #258975
This expert is a professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the head of a graduate automotive engineering program. This expert has been involved in advanced throttle control fuel injection/combustion systems for many years and was funded for multiple years in advanced gas turbine engine fuel injection and combustion systems. This expert has also been involved in optimizing fuel, throttle and fuel injection and combustion systems for racing and transportation applications. This expert has hands-on experience in dyno testing of complex throttle and fuel injection systems along with track testing and advanced computational modeling on supercomputing clusters. This expert supervises and advises graduate students who utilize custom fuel injected motorcycle engines to compete annually in an international competition. This expert is the recipient of numerous national awards, is well-published, presents at academic and industry conferences and has chaired over fifty technical sessions for the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) in throttle and intake systems, direct injection spark and compression ignition engines, fuel injection and sprays, and other combustion fields of study. This expert has been deposed and testified in court over sixty times as an expert witness involving the design and analysis of advanced Mechanical Engineering systems. Further, this expert has been involved with numerous cases an expert related to intellectual property and patent litigation related to fuel injection systems, engine control and throttle systems.
Start Control Systems Expert SearchExpert Witness #259867
This expert has many years of experience with control systems for electromechanical and mechatronic systems for a variety of applications, including robotics, industrial machines, and industrial processes. This expert’s experience encompasses embedded systems, microcontrollers, microprocessors, sensors, actuators, electronics, systems, algorithms, software, firmware, robotics, mechatronics, vision processing, artificial intelligence, and control philosophy. This expert’s Ph.D. thesis was related to advanced control algorithms for electromechanical systems. This expert’s Master’s thesis was for improving automated performance of remotely controlled mobile robots, and related work included mechanical, electrical, sensor, and computer hardware modifications along with advanced algorithm development. As laboratory manager for a Center for Automation and Intelligent Systems Mechatronics laboratory, this expert’s responsibilities included developing and maintaining hardware and algorithms for various industrial and research robots.
This expert is a named inventor on eight U.S. patents. With specific testimony on robotic systems, this expert has provided expertise for intellectual property matters that addressed claim construction, patent infringement, patent validity, and trade secrets in various venues including Inter Partes Reviews, U.S. court trials for patents and trade secrets, International Trade Commission, and Markman - Claim Construction. This expert holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics, and a Ph.D. (electrical engineering). This expert also holds an MBA.
Start Control Systems Expert SearchExpert Witness #265594
This expert is certified as a Professional Engineer, has many years of experience in automotive systems and provides consulting and expert witness services. As an expert witness this expert has provided testimony in a half dozen patent infringement cases as an expert in technical systems, and in other matters in State Courts as a mechanical and safety engineer. This expert has been Chief Engineer for a company that designed and tested fuel injection systems and electronic controls for those systems. This expert has held responsible positions in companies that provided fuel injection systems to automotive OEMs and understands the quality control and testing required in that role. Besides fuel injection and combustion, this expert is also an expert in ancillary systems like exhaust and electronic emission controls. This expert has published a dozen technical papers in scientific and technical journals and is the inventor on sixteen patents.
Start Control Systems Expert SearchExpert Witness #266379
This expert has a background in electronics, software, and systems design. This expert’s career journey includes designing lab instrumentation, medical devices, smart battery systems, ultrasonic welding and cleaning, and semiconductors. This expert’s engineering consultancy worked in multiple industries with varied applications: including LED lighting, sensors and motor control, medical devices and consumer devices. Every job change has been an industry change: from lab instrumentation to medical devices, from ultrasonic plastics welding to smart batteries, from sensor design to semiconductors. This expert’s varied experiences and interests give a unique and valuable perspective on problem solving both technically and in business. This expert has spent most of a career in OEM product development, focused on embedded systems, experiencing the role of engineering in many different markets: from consumer electronics to industrial controls, from medical products to LED lighting, and much more. This expert is a named engineer on 5 patents and has done his masters work in Computer Science, holds a Six Sigma Black Belt, and is a certified Scrum Master.
Start Control Systems Expert SearchExpert Witness #266405
This expert has been providing independent consulting, research and expert witness services, after having worked in industry engaged in software and instrument development. This expert’s primary focus is in gaming and phone input device architecture, standards and device drivers. As far back as the1980’s this expert was developing driver software for the leading manufacturers of joysticks at the time. That work also required a lot of engineering directed to drift that might result from variations in the outputs of the joystick sensors. Over the years this expert has worked on many input devices with joysticks or joystick-like inputs. This expert is quite familiar with the design issues surrounding joysticks both in terms of their internal design and when they are used in systems. This expert led the electronic and firmware design for a joystick used to control a cardiac endoscopy system (the same technology as a joystick control used in gaming but with much more stringent performance requirements). This expert has provided trial testimony on multiple occasions in front of juries, at bench trials, at the ITC, and in front of an arbitration panel.
Start Control Systems Expert SearchExpert Witness #266731
This expert is an internationally recognized expert on the design, development and control of adjustable speed motor drives and generators over a wide range of applications, with more than 25 years of experience in this area. Current research interests include electromechanical energy conversion, design and control of power electronics converters/systems, numerical analysis of electromagnetic fields in energy conversion devices, and electric propulsion of electrified transportation. Among this expert’s funded work on all–electric drilling and hybrid hydraulic pumps includes the following:
• Experimental Development of LSRM Drive for Deep Well Pump
• Multi-Machine Control of Linear SRM Drives for Pump Applications
• Novel Low-Cost Method to Install Geophones for CO2 Monitoring
• Design of a Plunger System for Compressor Applications
• Design of Super High-Speed Motors for Drilling Applications
This expert holds 18 US patents with six more pending, and has co-authored over 300 scientific articles. This expert earned PhD, MS, and BS degrees in electrical engineering, and is currently a distinguished professor of engineering where this expert leads research and education in the area of motor drives and power electronics.
Start Control Systems Expert SearchExpert Witness #266745
This expert’s education and research experience includes a vast array of aspects relating to electrical engineering, electric power, control systems, and electromechanical systems. An area of particular emphasis throughout this expert’s career has been a focus on electric power equipment, including transformers and electric machines and drives. This expert has taught principles of electromechanical energy conversion, power systems, power electronics, and power quality, and has authored over 20 journal and conference publications. This expert has a strong working knowledge of electric machinery and electromechanical energy conversion, as well as an understanding of internal combustion engines and a variety of types and sizes of pumping applications. With decades of forensic experience, this expert has developed the ability to analyze and understand complex machinery and systems. This expert has testified in a variety of litigation settings including patent litigation cases and has addressed matters of invalidity including both anticipation and obviousness, as well as issues of infringement. This expert holds Ph.D. and M.Eng degrees in Electric Power Engineering and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering.
Start Control Systems Expert SearchExpert Witness #226416
This USB/signal processing expert holds a PhD and PE and has extensive electrical engineering experience analyzing USB hub architectures, host control logic, and embedded electronic systems in patent litigation. This expert can evaluate patent issues involving multi-host USB hubs, USB bridges between hosts, and automotive head-unit control of USB connectivity.
This expert can assess whether automotive infotainment systems meet technical claim requirements, including issues involving host-to-host bridging, dynamic host switching, and head-unit-controlled USB routing. This expert is also well positioned to evaluate invalidity and obviousness by analyzing prior art USB hub designs, host-role management techniques, switching and routing architectures, and bridge-based communication systems that predate relevant patent claims.
This expert's work aligns patent claim elements, such as USB hub modules, host switching logic, and control pathways, with hardware and firmware behavior and the state of the art at relevant priority dates. This expert's combination of hands-on engineering expertise and patent litigation experience supports clear, technically grounded opinions on non-infringement and invalidity in matters involving complex automotive USB and CarPlay-related systems.
Start Control Systems Expert SearchExpert Witness #252163
This automotive systems expert has over 45 years of active involvement in automotive design, testing, and evaluation of drivetrains, suspension systems, brake systems, chassis control systems, including electronic stability control systems, vehicle handling, and vehicle stability. This expert's automotive career includes engineering, designing, and testing components for automotive manufacturers, OEMs, and Tier 1 suppliers; integrating vehicles and vehicle systems; test-track and road testing of dynamic vehicle behavior; validating components and systems for OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers; designing and preparing racecars; and driving racecars.
This expert has invented and developed advanced all-wheel drive systems used by leading SUV and car manufacturers. During the integration of these systems into individual vehicle platforms, this expert worked closely with development teams on vehicle dynamics integration. Following an intensive over 15-year vehicle research and development career and vehicle handling work with a broad range of U.S. and European automobile manufacturers, this expert began conducting detailed systems analyses of vehicle handling and stability issues that lead to catastrophic injury accidents. Over the last 25 years, this expert has conducted numerous detailed systems analyses of catastrophic injury crashes in accordance with established industry practices and protocols published by SAE. This expert has worked with and participated in dynamic vehicle testing for handling and safety issues with OEM and supplier engineers on many proving grounds and test tracks, testing and evaluating vehicles manufactured by many OEMs.
More specifically, this expert has worked on the development and testing of ESC, including manufacturer-specific implementations, with several automotive manufacturers and suppliers. This expert has detailed knowledge and experience with hydroplaning subroutines and ESC technology, from concept through implementation, and is capable of downloading, reading, and interpreting vehicle control system code where access is available.
This expert is currently conducting research relating to advanced automotive technology, including design and technology analysis involving design defects and alternative designs; automotive systems and components testing and scientific validation, including durability, reliability, rollover, and handling tests; automotive design, technology, vehicle dynamics, handling, and stability research and consulting; and evaluation of feasibility, performance, and potential effects of design alternatives and available technology.
This expert has over 20 years of expert witness experience, including numerous matters involving ESC, testing, reports, and testimony.
Start Control Systems Expert SearchExpert Witness #265317
This sensor-based automation expert witness holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and is a distinguished professor of mechanical engineering at a well-regarded university, with over 20 years of experience in vehicle dynamics, control, and sensor-based automation for ground vehicles. This expert holds endowed professorships and has led a nationally recognized research program in automated and intelligent transportation systems. The Ph.D. was earned from a prestigious university, with specialization in automatic control and mechatronic systems, and this expert has received multiple national awards recognizing contributions to vehicle automation research and engineering education.
This expert has extensive expertise in the integration of camera-based sensing with GPS, inertial sensors, LiDAR, radar, and onboard vehicle sensors to support automated driving and advanced driver assistance systems. Research areas include vision-based lane detection, object tracking, and vision-aided navigation, with a strong emphasis on sensor fusion and real-time implementation on instrumented vehicles operating in challenging environments. This expert has supervised numerous graduate research projects involving computer vision for autonomous vehicles, including robust lane detection using camera and IMU data, vision-assisted GPS/INS navigation, and object registration and tracking for automated platforms. The work consistently combines theoretical development with experimental validation on full-scale vehicle systems.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Control Systems Expert SearchExpert Witness #272730
This GPS investigation analyst and systems expert holds P.E. and D.F.E. credentials and is a forensic engineer specializing in wireless and telecommunication engineering, cellular evidence mapping and analysis, and applied research. This expert is well credentialed and deeply experienced, with an investigation and analytics focus informed by an academic approach. This expert is a peer-reviewed author and frequent presenter at industry conferences, with recognized work as both a skilled practitioner and an industry authority. This expert has worked on criminal defense matters and has completed projects involving cellular data mapping, timelines, and other cellular evidence. This expert is an Electrical Engineer with two master's degrees and over 25 years of experience in research, design, analysis, and measurement of cellular, GPS, 3G-5G, LTE, public safety communications systems, satellite, Internet, wireless, RF, Wi-Fi, radar, networks, data communications, communications protocols and standards, instrumentation, and control systems.
This expert has specialized credentials, education, and experience in electronic control systems. Electronic control systems are used to manage, command, direct, and regulate devices and systems, including autonomous farm machinery, self-driving vehicles, industrial processes, elevators, and traffic lights. Professionally, this expert has designed, implemented, and analyzed control systems that managed cellular networks, satellite communication systems, and industrial processes. This expert also holds a master's degree in engineering management, providing a strong foundation in statistical process control, which supports autonomous control.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Control Systems Expert SearchExpert Witness #278787
This robot safety/human factors/controller design expert is an academic professor emeritus in industrial and systems engineering with over 40 years of experience specializing in human factors engineering, human-computer interaction, work design and performance systems, and robot safety. This expert is one of the early pioneer researchers in industrial robotics safety and has performed extensive research in the human factors engineering of medical instruments. This expert teaches the principles of control-display compatibility in human factors engineering courses.
In research and teaching, this expert uses human factors design evaluation tools to assess user control interfaces across 10 mutually exclusive dimensions. A subjective rating system can be used to measure interface design features against these dimensions, providing an evaluation of design appropriateness.
This expert also has experience in the design of warning labels and warning instructions for several classes of hazardous conditions. Warning-label and instruction design must be carefully considered against a complex array of other parts of the system operating conditions and user expertise. If needed, this must be done first against the standards for warning labels and instructions and then modified for a particular set of operational sequences.
Start Control Systems Expert SearchExpert 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.
Start Control Systems Expert SearchExpert 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.
Start Control Systems Expert SearchExpert Witness #291231
This mechanical engineering expert holds a PhD and has over 25 years of combined experience in mechanical engineering across academia and industry. This expert has over 15 years of industry experience in product development, machine design, energy efficient appliances and sustainability, thermal systems design, and engineering management. This expert has conducted research in heat transfer, thermal fluids, and energy systems, and has led many years of research and development projects in interdisciplinary areas of mechanical engineering.
This expert has substantial experience with thermal fluid analysis, heat exchanger design, environmental control systems, HVAC, and related heat exchange systems. This expert has designed thermal systems involving heat exchangers in various applications and has worked on systems providing temperature, pressure, humidity, and air quality control for occupant comfort. This expert also served as a thermal analyst for a major spacecraft mission to Saturn while completing doctoral studies at a well-regarded university.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant with strong experience in patent invalidity analysis and legal procedures.
Start Control Systems Expert SearchExpert Witness #293567
This FAA regulations expert is a former federal transportation safety investigator and FAA Inspector with over 15 years of combined service. This expert has a specialized background in production management, accident investigations, airline, airport, and aircraft regulations, operations, maintenance, repair, manufacturing, and safety management systems, with experience and expertise involving FAA regulations.
This expert received a degree in Aviation Maintenance Management from a well-regarded aeronautical university before pursuing a practical career with major aircraft manufacturers. This expert has experience with FAA Order 7110.65, which prescribes procedures and phraseology for use by persons providing air traffic control services. Through air traffic control-related investigations and aviation regulatory investigations, this expert developed specialized knowledge and understanding of air traffic control procedures and actions.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Control Systems Expert SearchExpert Witness #293878
This forensic engineering expert is a licensed Professional Engineer with graduate degrees in engineering and experience in accident reconstruction, vehicle systems, product defects, and failure analysis.
This expert holds a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, an M.Sc. in Engineering, and an M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from well-regarded engineering universities. Training includes inspection of accident scenes, passenger vehicles, and heavy vehicles for defects and accident causation, as well as imaging and analysis of Event Data Recorders, Electronic Control Modules, and vehicle brake systems.
This expert has been trained to use computer models for vehicle dynamics simulations and accident reconstructions. Experience also includes investigations involving product defects and the creation of failure analysis models to determine causation and support opinions.
To support accident reconstructions, this expert has conducted testing of industrial and consumer products and equipment involved in accidents resulting in bodily harm. This expert has provided assessments and reports regarding accident causation, product failure, and defect analysis.
This expert has inspected and tested agricultural tractors, skid steer loaders, construction equipment, commercial trucks and trailers, dump trucks, plow trucks, motorcycles, and passenger vehicles as part of forensic engineering investigations and accident reconstructions. Additional experience includes maintenance and operation of farm equipment, familiarity with agricultural implements, harvesters, and tractors, and review of data from GPS-based and vehicle-based control modules, including systems commonly referred to as black boxes. This expert is also familiar with driving systems for agricultural tractors.
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This mechanical engineering expert holds a BSME, is a licensed Professional Engineer, and has over 10 years of experience in varied mechanical engineering projects, including direct work with automated farm equipment and a number of patents.
This expert has worked for a large automated farm equipment manufacturer that developed automated sod-harvesting equipment and autonomous mower platforms. In that work, this expert provided mechanical support and field testing for 2D and 3D sensor modalities, including lidar, radar, and ultrasonic systems. This expert later served as the mechanical lead in the development of an autonomous mower platform, with responsibilities focused on the mechanical and structural design of the mower and its electrical platform.
This expert is familiar with autonomy principles and technology, with practical experience focused primarily on mechanical systems and sensor modalities. This expert can address the mechanical aspects of automated equipment, as well as the interface between control systems and mechanical components. This expert also has software development experience and can discuss higher-level machine-control theory, while more detailed source-code analysis of detection software would be outside the core focus of this expert's experience.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
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This coal-fired power plant expert has over 40 years of experience with air quality control systems at coal-fired electric power generating stations and has expertise in the technology and chemistry of wet and dry flue gas desulfurization systems and the control of emissions of sulfur dioxide (SO2), mercury, sulfur trioxide (SO3), sulfuric acid mist (H2SO4), and halogens.
This expert is knowledgeable about controlling mercury re-emission from wet flue gas desulfurization systems and the addition of halogens to coal to improve mercury capture by activated carbon and by flue gas desulfurization systems.
This expert has experience in the process technology and chemistry of flue gas desulfurization and mercury capture systems, including design, start-up, operation, and troubleshooting of flue gas cleaning processes in coal-fired electric generating plants.
This expert has managed R&D to develop improvements to flue gas cleaning processes in coal-fired power plants and directed the development, installation, and start-up of flue gas cleaning technology.
This expert has provided expert witness services regarding air quality control systems and is a named inventor on U.S. and foreign patents in the air quality control field.
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This HVAC/clean room expert holds a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering and credentials including Professional Engineer (P.E.), FCIBSE, and LEED AP, with experience in the design and control systems for laboratories and research facilities, microelectronic facilities, and pharmaceutical facilities.
This expert has a history in the design of cleanroom HVAC systems and is familiar with the control of airborne contaminants using HVAC systems. Sterile and aseptic environments are common features in pharmaceutical processing and have equivalents in microelectronics work, and some of those types of facilities may involve cleanliness standards exceeding those of many operating rooms.
This expert is a Life Member of a prominent HVAC industry association, served for two consecutive terms as chair of a cleanrooms technical committee, and is currently a voting member of that committee. This expert has worked on a number of pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical processing facilities where air cleanliness, airborne particulate control, and the impact of thermal loads within cleanrooms on air movement are primary HVAC design concerns.
This expert has also chaired a research monitoring committee for a project measuring airborne particulate generation in various pharmaceutical operations. The impacts and implications of airborne particulate control and filtration are crucial. This expert is also a corresponding member of a laboratory systems technical committee within a prominent HVAC industry association and has worked extensively in laboratory environments where particulate and contamination control can be crucial in multiple directions.
This expert has served as the principal engineer for controlled-environment laboratory space in a life sciences building. This expert is also an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
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This EV charging expert holds a PhD and is a Professor at a public research university, with over 20 years of research and applied experience in renewable and electric transportation systems, including extensive work on EV charging station design, grid integration, control, and failure diagnostics. As Co-PI for a federally supported electric vehicle transportation research center and PI on multiple federally funded energy projects, this expert led several investigations into hardware failures and control anomalies for EV chargers. This expert also has patent work in compact battery charge station design and has advised multiple PhD students on charger reliability and converter control systems.
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This EV charging and automotive systems expert holds degrees in Electrical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Chemical Engineering, is a lean six-sigma black belt and Licensed Professional Engineer, and has over 40 years of real-world experience designing, testing, and developing electrical systems for automotive applications. This expert is also a patent attorney registered with the USPTO, with extensive experience serving as an expert in IP-related matters, ITC matters, and Inter Partes Review proceedings.
This expert has served as an automotive industry expert in a trade secret theft case involving electric vehicles and hybrid vehicles. This expert is also experienced in EV battery systems and control systems.
This expert has extensive experience in vehicle telematics systems, units, and methods, as well as in writing, developing, and testing automotive products and components. This expert also has experience with related engineering specifications, product acceptance testing, control plans, PPAP, Failure Modes and Effects Analyses (FMEAs), and Design Validation Plans and Reports (DVPRs).
This expert has testified over 95 times and has extensive deposition and trial testimony experience, including testimony in IP and patent litigation cases. This expert has authored numerous reports and declarations for intellectual property and patent matters, analyzed patents and prior art in numerous patent cases involving automotive and vehicle systems and components, conducted hundreds of forensic investigations, and supported at least 50 IPRs, testifying in over 15 of them.
This expert has served as an expert witness in infringement, non-infringement, patent validity, and patent invalidity matters, including issues involving Sections 101, 102, 103, and 112 and prior art arguments. This expert thoroughly understands the issues involved in intellectual property and patent litigation and has drafted numerous reports and declarations addressing infringement and non-infringement, claim construction, validity, and invalidity in IPRs, Federal District Courts, and ITC cases.
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