Embedded Systems Expert Witnesses
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Embedded system expert witness candidates typically have a background and expertise in software engineering, electrical engineering, and/or computer science. Specific expertise in digital signal processing, firmware, embedded system design, FPGAs, wireless communication, or computer architecture may be requested for a litigation support role.
An embedded system is a computer system that is embedded as part of an overall product or device. An embedded system is dedicated to specific tasks, and embedded systems’ complexity varies from a single microcontroller, to systems with multiple units, peripherals and networks. Embedded systems are used in a wide range of devices, a small sampling of which includes card readers, digital cameras, automotive systems, routers, GPS receivers, household appliances, traffic light systems, CNC machines, medical devices, and military devices. With so many diverse applications, the embedded systems industry is growing at an extremely rapid pace. Embedded systems design and development is a very active area, requiring professionals with expertise in software design, hardware design and processor architecture.
In embedded system technology litigation, a technologist can anticipate expert witness services such as depositions, expert report preparation, reverse engineering, forensic analysis, and related consulting activities. In high profile cases, or litigation involving a significant financial stake, previous expert witness experience is often a requirement.
Cahn Litigation Services has a vast expert network and is regularly called upon to locate embedded system expert witnesses for matters involving intellectual property, such as patent infringement and trade secret cases.
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Embedded Systems Expert Witness - Representative Bios
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The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Embedded Systems experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Embedded Systems landscape.
Expert Witness #212686
This expert has many years of experience in software and hardware development for embedded systems, and has served as an Expert Witness. This expert has hands-on experience developing software on portable wireless communications devices, including the development of over 30 smartphone applications, generating over 50 million user installs. This expert has worked on numerous embedded systems projects which have included wireless communications, including game consoles, handheld gaming devices, first generation (J2ME/Brew) "feature" phones, present day smartphone devices and browser-based online games. As an expert in over 20 computer software languages, including assembly language [TMS1000, AMI S2000, 6502, 65816, 6800, Z80, 8080, etc], C, C++, Java, Javascript, Objective C, Lingo, Swift, and others, this expert has performed extensive source code analysis and reverse engineering from object code to source code. This expert has development experience with embedded systems utilizing ROM-based software. As an early pioneer in the handheld electronic toy and video game industries, this expert designed software on systems where the delivery mechanism was ROM-based cartridges. This expert also has strong knowledge of microprocessor and microcontroller architectures used in embedded systems, having designed the hardware and software of early microcontroller-based handheld electronic products. This expert designed, developed and coded one of the earliest tokenized interpretive languages for a commercially released software product. The architecture of the language was based on processor-independent, bytecode "object code," which was compiled on-the-fly during program design and interpreted in real-time by an assembly language-based virtual machine. The language was highly optimized, allowing for the development of real-time, graphic-intensive applications executing at 15 frames per second (on 8-bit hardware). This expert has been retained as an expert and accepted by the court in over 25 patent infringement cases, on both the plaintiff and defendant sides. This expert has written numerous reports on patent infringement and non-infringement, validity/invalidity and claim construction, been deposed over 25 times and has testified in court or at an arbitration hearing seven times. Outside of this expert's expertise in video games, this expert has worked on numerous other cases involving software development for general applications, including image processing, vector graphics, virtual reality, embedded control systems for location-based amusement machines, and a handheld language translator.
Start Embedded Systems Expert SearchExpert Witness #237268
This expert is a Professor in the ECE Department at a prestigious engineering school, where this expert performs research and teaches in the areas of navigation, communications and computer system design. This expert supervises a radio navigation center, where work is focused on the integration of communications, navigation and information technologies for public safety applications. This expert's research focuses on the development, test, and evaluation of systems for both civilian and military applications. This expert also spent years at a major U.S. defense contractor where this expert was involved with the development of embedded computers for guidance, communications and data processing systems for space borne and terrestrial applications. This expert has significant experience working as an expert witness in high technology patent litigation, and has provided deposition and courtroom testimony on numerous occasions; many have involved the generic area of "location aware" systems combining maps and GPS.
Start Embedded 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 Embedded Systems Expert SearchExpert Witness #125102
This expert holds a PhD in Computer Engineering and is an Adjunct Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. This expert instructs graduate level seminars on embedded computer architectures, and their relation to compiled languages, and embedded software systems. This expert is also an avid technologist, entrepreneur, founder of a highly successful technology consultancy and managing director at a private equity angel investing firm. This expert is involved in IEEE / ACM Design Automation Conference’s Embedded Software and Systems Track and the IEEE Real Time Systems Symposium. Previously, this expert held industry roles with major US semiconductor companies in the areas of computer architecture, high performance software, and related systems; formerly, chief architect of hardware and software systems for Fortune 500 semiconductor companies.This expert is the architect of open source computer architecture simulation environments used for hardware/software system design at various US universities. This expert is also the named inventor on multiple US patents, including client/server computing and embedded operating systems.
This expert has extensive experience with testimony (validity/infringement and related), depositions, expert report generation and investigation of computer video hardware and video software systems such as computer operating systems and systems software. Additionally, this expert has extensive experience in reverse engineering and source code review of multi millions of lines of software and hardware source code.
Start Embedded 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 Embedded Systems Expert SearchExpert Witness #230902
This expert has many years of experience in hardware and software engineering from embedded systems in the telecommunications and robotics fields to very large-scale enterprise systems. This expert has developed embedded systems for media distribution, high speed encryption and robots; enterprise systems; AI technologies; computer language compilers and interpreters; operating systems; network protocols and knowledge discovery tools; and web and non-web Internet based systems. This expert has extensive experience with more than 45 computer languages and relational, object and post-relational database systems. This expert has developed custom loaders for object code and understands the general requirements of a bifurcated OS or API where executable code for certain concerns are stored in separate and interchangeable code and data elements. This expert has also developed table-based solutions for localizing executables.
Selected Professional Experience
Senior Systems Engineer – Lead engineer of a team responsible for porting MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows to Paradyne PCs. Developed drivers and BIOS. Senior engineer on team responsible for porting and customizing the first implementation of Microsoft Xenix, which later became SCO Unix. Consulted to team responsible for localizing Paradyne products for various foreign language markets.
Department manager and lead engineer of Embedded Systems for a Robotics Group. Under this expert’s direction and following this expert’s design, the group developed a custom real-time operating system with extensions for executing a software-based replacement for Programmable Logic Controllers using a custom logic language compiler of this expert’s design, a distributed multi-node inter-process communication subsystem and other OS extensions.
This expert has years of experience providing expert reports, depositions and testimony for patent litigation, forensics and software contract disputes in telecommunications, computer and network technologies, media distribution and media handling devices and cellular devices and networks including both hardware and software.
This expert’s expert analysis and conclusions were instrumental in achieving successful results in several cases, including a petition before the PTAB for re-examination of a patent’s validity, wherein this expert’s expert written and oral opinions led to a reversal of the Board’s previous invalidity decision, resulting in the patent’s validity being sustained, as well as a similar reversal of a prior decision on a second patent the following day, using the same arguments.
Start Embedded Systems Expert SearchExpert Witness #246861
This expert is an accomplished human factors engineer, user interface designer, software engineer and systems engineer with extensive expert witness experience specializing in user interface design for embedded, mobile, web, desktop and server software. This expert has vast experience with designing systems that utilize touch sensitive user interfaces in the areas of smartphones, computer equipment, entertainment equipment, air traffic control systems, flight deck systems, medical devices and simulation systems. This expert founded two medical technology companies, both working on interfaces that utilize touch screen technology. This expert is the founder and CEO of a technology company focusing on location tracking applications for GPS enabled smart phones. This expert is an inventor, designer and author of several GPS mobile application software products currently available for iPhone and Android devices. As an expert witness, this expert has worked on a wide variety of patent litigation cases for both plaintiff and defendant.
Start Embedded Systems Expert SearchExpert Witness #258365
This expert is a Ph.D. Candidate and has deep experience as an expert witness in Multimedia Networking, Communication Systems, Graphical User Interface, Signal Processing and other related topics. This expert's focus is in the design and development of a broad range of technologies in software and hardware for applications in telecommunications and multimedia networking. This expert possesses expertise in digital video and voice communications systems over packet-based wireless and wireline computer networks. This expert has been a technical expert for intellectual property litigations, supporting the nation's top law firms for patent or copyright infringement.
Start Embedded Systems Expert SearchExpert Witness #257821
This expert is a Chair of Engineering and Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. This expert held a variety of engineering positions in industry. This expert has practiced as an independent professional engineer. This expert’s practice areas include digital systems design and analysis, computer architecture, computer systems security, embedded systems, and signal processing algorithms. This expert is an author or co-author of over 250 technical articles and five books and is a named inventor on five US patents and five provisional or patents pending. This expert has consulted with and performed sponsored research for several different federal government agencies and industrial organizations. This expert’s research activities generally revolve around modeling, simulation, formal verification, and design of digital systems including both conventional electronic and emerging technology implementations.
This expert wrote machine-code designed to purposely exploit design errors and to invoke the test circuitry in the chip. In academia, this expert has taught digital design at the introductory and advanced levels, including embedded systems design, programmable logic, and ASIC. All of these classes include the teaching of test methods as a critical part of classes. This expert is also familiar with test standards for BIST including JTAG 1149.1, etc.
This expert has worked with both plaintiffs and defendants and has experience testifying in depositions and trials. This expert is an author of numerous expert reports and declarations for the plaintiff and defense, and also numerous declarations and IPR-related reports. Other experience includes pre-filing/due diligence analysis, prior art searching and analysis/rebuttal, forensics, reverse engineering, software/firmware/HDL listing analysis, drafting infringement, invalidity, and rebuttal contentions, claim construction/Markman preparation, tutorial development, direct examination Q&A drafting. This expert is a named inventor on five US patents and five patent applications.
Start Embedded 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 Embedded Systems Expert SearchExpert Witness #266813
This expert is a professor and associate department chair for an electrical and computing engineering department. This expert teaches courses and conducts research in embedded systems, autonomous vehicles and applications, including the use of Controller Area Network (CAN) hardware. This expert has used CAN Bus technology for many years, and has published five conference papers that describe its use. This expert’s career experience is divided between industry and academia. This expert has written eight books and over 150 papers related to embedded systems, microcontrollers, autonomous vehicles, communications, and hardware/software development. This expert is a Professional Engineer, a Senior Member of the IEEE and a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP). This expert earned Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Computer Engineering, and a B.S. in Computer Science.
Start Embedded Systems Expert SearchExpert Witness #209097
This USB/signal processing expert has over 30 years of experience in computer science and EE applications, including embedded systems, network device interfaces, peripheral interface drivers, wired and wireless protocols such as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, and USB.
This expert's application experience includes USB bridges and dual-role or multi-host USB hubs for automotive smartphone-integration systems connected to automobile head units. This expert has served in over 60 patent cases, including over 10 cases involving peripheral communications and USB protocols.
This expert has performed extensive analysis of multi-host USB hub technology for automotive systems, including protocol capture and interpretation of signal processing using a logic analyzer in a live vehicle and head unit.
Start Embedded Systems Expert SearchExpert Witness #231703
This embedded/cellular systems expert leads a highly sought-after consultancy specializing in embedded systems and focused on hardware, software, and firmware design.
This expert has over 10 years of experience in cellular litigation and has consulted on numerous additional cellular matters. The consultancy has completed over 100 reviews of cellular code involving 3G, 4G, and 5G technologies.
Start Embedded Systems Expert SearchExpert Witness #232077
This software architecture, software engineering, and distributed systems expert holds a Ph.D. in Information and Computer Science and serves as an emeritus director of a systems and software engineering center and as a professor in a computer science department at a prestigious university. This expert has received prestigious national research awards, foundation grants, and industry faculty awards.
This expert focuses research on architecture-based software development, including software architecture modeling and analysis; middleware facilities for architectural implementation; product-line architectures; architectural styles; and architecture-level support for software development in highly distributed, mobile, resource-constrained, and embedded computing environments. For over 30 years, this expert has focused on the analysis of large-scale, distributed software systems and their decay over time, and a research lab associated with this expert published an early study of architectural decay in long-lived software systems. This expert authored a widely cited textbook on software systems architectures, which has been cited over 20,000 times.
Start Embedded Systems Expert SearchExpert Witness #243665
This coding expert owns and operates an engineering consulting and training firm focused on software, firmware, and hardware domains, with expertise spanning assembly language, C, C++, claim charting, CodeSuite, concurrent version systems (CVS), device drivers, embedded software, embedded systems, computer and coding forensics, Linux, microprocessors and processors, Real-Time operating systems (RTOS), shell scripts, Software engineering, Software forensics, and Apache Subversion (SVN).
This expert has significant witness experience involving infringement and alleged violations of patents, copyrights, trade secrets, and other intellectual property, as well as cases regarding defective products. This expert is typically asked to examine software source code and hardware designs, and to reverse-engineer designs.
Start Embedded Systems Expert SearchExpert Witness #255747
This PCIe expert has designed over 10 serial interface systems using circuit techniques that preceded the era of PCI Express, including implementations for a fast and wide bus embedded within automatic test systems.
Most PCIe design roles subsequently arose while working at multiple electronics companies. This expert was responsible for several design teams that built network apparatuses and made extensive use of second- and third-generation PCIe standards and IP, using CMOS processes at nodes of 130 through 65 nm.
This expert currently focuses on PCIe, primarily in video applications and more advanced nodes. Principal PCIe-related work has also included precision timing subsystems that can achieve challenging timing requirements even when bus widths grow to scores of PCIe channels per chip.
Start Embedded Systems Expert SearchExpert Witness #255790
This wireless design expert is a PE and Consulting Engineer with extensive experience in wireless and embedded systems design for the avionics and aerospace, public safety, consumer, cellular, medical device, and semiconductor industries, and is a Life Senior member of a prominent professional engineering association.
At a major telecommunications company, this expert gained experience in many aspects of secure land mobile radio, cellular subscriber and infrastructure, Wi-Fi, and cordless technologies. This expert has worked with wireless design and testing, including high-density enterprise Wi-Fi for hospital systems, 4G and 5G cellular systems, avionics systems, and secure land-mobile systems.
This expert has considerable litigation, expert testimony, and expert consulting experience.
Start Embedded Systems Expert SearchExpert Witness #270508
This network monitoring expert has over 40 years of experience with storage devices, embedded software systems for industry and consumer products, and related systems, including flash memory such as solid state disks, memory cards, and flash drives; optical storage such as CD, DVD, WORM, and magneto-optical storage; magnetic storage such as hard disks, floppy disks, and tape; RAID and disk arrays; jukeboxes; USB; SCSI; iSCSI; IDE/ATA/ATAPI/SATA; Fibre Channel; PCMCIA; game programming; home appliances; and telecommunications.
This expert has written and designed device drivers, software, and firmware for Windows, Linux, VxWorks, QNX, and other embedded real-time operating systems (RTOSs). Professional roles have included software developer, project lead, seminar presenter, and technical writer. Technical experience includes programming languages such as Java, Python, PHP, LabVIEW, C, C++, Delphi, C#, and assembly.
This expert has served as an expert witness and expert consultant in over 40 engagements involving patent, trade secret, copyright, class action, and contractual disputes, as well as patent portfolio reviews involving file systems, game programming, home appliance technology, telecommunications, and television control software. These engagements have drawn on over 30 years of experience in the software storage industry and over 40 years of experience as a computer engineer, and have involved technology in the consumer products, telecommunications, and storage industries.
This expert has written expert reports, been deposed, and provided courtroom testimony at trial. Engagements have involved source code analysis and comparisons, object code disassembly, benchmarking, computer media duplication, and forensic analysis on data storage devices and file systems using tools including EnCase, FTK, and DiskJocky.
This expert has worked on over 50 expert witness matters and has testified by deposition and at trial multiple times. Career experience has included work on networks internal and external to computer systems, including international communication networks. Prior projects have included building a system that periodically pinged computers on a network to detect computer hardware theft, and similar technology has been used to measure the availability of web systems.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Embedded Systems Expert SearchExpert Witness #282968
This cybersecurity expert is a network security expert, open-source programmer, writer, and hacker.
While involved with a prominent hacker collective, this expert contributed to disclosure and education on information and security vulnerabilities. In addition to pioneering buffer overflow work, security advisories released by the collective contained early examples of flaws involving code injection, race conditions, side-channel attacks, exploitation of embedded systems, and cryptanalysis of commercial systems.
This expert has worked as a program manager overseeing cybersecurity research and as a security leader for well-known websites, and managed and wrote intrusion detection packages for an early intrusion detection system.
Start Embedded Systems Expert SearchExpert Witness #288783
This code review expert holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from a well-regarded university, along with additional certification in Embedded Systems and Functional Programming. This expert is a cybersecurity engineer at a technical consulting and cybersecurity firm and has extensive experience with C+ and C++ languages.
Start Embedded Systems Expert SearchExpert Witness #296203
This IoT expert holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and is a professor specializing in electrical and computer engineering, hardware security, embedded systems security, and computing systems. This expert is a professor in electrical and computer engineering at a well-regarded public research university and leads a prominent center focused on hardware and embedded systems security and trust. This expert previously held an associate professorship in electrical and computer engineering at another research university and received a computing innovation fellowship from a prominent computing research organization, during which this expert spent a number of years at a prestigious public research university.
This expert completed a Ph.D. in Computer Science at a well-regarded public research university and received a prestigious multi-year computer science department fellowship. This expert also holds an M.Sc. in computer engineering from a well-regarded university and a B.Sc. in electrical engineering from a well-regarded university.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
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