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This expert is a founding member of an independent business advisory and transaction services consultancy. This expert brings to the table many years of valuation, financial analysis and litigation support experience, specializing as a consultant and expert in the fields of forensic accounting, economic damages analysis in commercial disputes, business valuation and automotive industry issues. This expert also has served as financial advisor to bank groups and creditor committees in connection with financial restructuring. Prior to founding the firm, this expert was the partner in charge of the Financial & Economic Consulting practices of a large accounting firm. This expert also served as an associate, manager and partner in the firm's assurance and corporate finance practices. This expert has served as a financial expert in well over two hundred engagements involving testimony in deposition, trial and alternative dispute resolution settings as an expert in auditing and accounting, commercial economics, financial and operational analysis, fraud investigation, determination of economic damages and business valuation. This expert has also participated in hundreds of additional commercial dispute engagements in a consulting role, a mediation role or where resolution of the matter was achieved without expert testimony. Matters addressed in these engagements include:

This expert holds a Ph.D. This expert's Doctoral thesis was on Learning Control and Neural Network Learning. This expert has conducted research and development in the fields of Biometrics, Optimization, Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning, and Internet-Commerce. This expert's work has included research and development, leading to the production of a series of Speaker Recognition, Speech Recognition, Face Recognition, and Signature Recognition software engines. This expert is the author of a textbook on speaker recognition.

This expert developed a procedure for the conversion of classically written articles into articles in Unicode-16. This included working with the editors of an encyclopedia, in detail, to design a character set based on Unicode to be able to handle hundreds of languages (modern and archaic). In addition, automation software was developed for the conversion of articles, while indexing and cross-referencing then automatically. This expert created search mechanisms for searching the articles in any of the many nonstandard transcription techniques used by the readers to transcribe the relevant languages. The mapping, search, and multiple transcription style mapping are quite complex. The indexing included automatic indexing plus keyword references created manually by editors and incorporated into the search and indexing.

This expert has been an Adjunct Professor at the Computer Science department, as well as Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering departments of a major University. This expert has been teaching the following graduate courses: Fundamentals of Speaker Recognition, Fundamentals of Speech Recognition, Digital Control Systems, Applied Signal Recognition and Classification, and Speech and Handwriting Recognition. This expert is also actively involved in several standards bodies.

This expert has served as an expert witness and consultant in several leading Intellectual Property and Patent Litigation cases (both ITC 337 proceedings and Federal Circuit). This expert has reviewed and analyzed software and hardware designs through source code analysis for pre/post-litigation phases.

This expert obtained a B. Tech (Hons) in ECE, and a Ph.D. in EECS. This expert has served as a Teaching Assistant, a Research Assistant, and as an Instructor. This expert has received multiple awards for contributions to electrical engineering. This expert is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. This expert has been active in the areas of digital signal processing, computer engineering, services science, system-level design methodologies & tools, and software systems, and has been a PI or co-PI in several active research programs.

This expert has authored, co-authored, or edited several books, and has been an active consultant to the industry and various research laboratories, and has founded companies in the areas of embedded software, military chipsets, and wireless communications. This expert has supervised the PhD dissertations of over twenty engineers in the areas of DSP, communications, rapid prototyping, and system-level design methodology, of which five have resulted in thesis prizes or paper awards.

This expert is a Professor Emeritus of Digital Signal Processing. This expert received S.B. (Bachelor's), S.M. (Master's), E.E. (Professional Engineer's), and Sc.D. (Doctorate) degrees, all in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. During graduate work, this expert was supported by a fellowship for research in hearing prostheses, and corporate sponsorship for the development of real- time automatic speech recognition systems. This expert is a member of the Acoustical Society of America, and is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). This expert has been a member of the IEEE Speech Technical Committee. This expert is also founder and director a speech technology company. This expert's current research interests involve digital processing of speech signals. This is concerned with such problems as the application of digital speech technology to sensory aids for the hearing impaired and automatic recognition of speech in adverse conditions. Some of the interesting problems arising from these applications include enhancement of speech in noise, formulation of robust perceptual distance measures, and real-time implementation. This expert also does work in efficient coding of speech signals, auditory modeling for improved speech analysis, speech production modeling, general digital signal processing, and pattern recognition.