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Expert Witness #211297
This expert has many years of industry and academic experience covering a broad swath of hardware and software engineering. While providing technical support for all IC products for customers this expert's chief focus was microprocessors and their attendant software development systems and test/integration tools (ICE, logic analyzers).
This expert has consulted over the past several years, specializing in computer chip/IC product engineering/reverse engineering and related intellectual property issues.
This expert has a unique perspective on the computer chip industry. As manager of applications engineering at an IC startup this expert developed datasheets, app notes and PowerPoint presentations for 10/100 Mbps Ethernet (10Base-T/100Base-TX) and Gigabit Ethernet (1000Base-T) ICs. While a marketing manager this expert was responsible for all aspects of a startup business unit developing a communications IC product line, including contributing to the business plan and product definition. The market focus was SONET/SDH low-level devices (PMDs and PLLs).
This expert has started two businesses that have developed PC software products. This expert taught computer programming, architecture and logic design courses. This expert also instructed an Extension in the Microprocessor Hardware/Software Certificate program, designing the "Systems" course for that program.
Start Hardware Engineering Expert SearchExpert 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 Hardware Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #249612
This expert is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and teaches graduate level courses on Foundations of Communications, 4G/5G Communications, Error Control Coding, and the Internet of Things (IoT). OFDM technology is utilized extensively. In addition to work with OFDM technologies at the academic level, this expert also has extensive OFDM-related experience in industry. This expert has communications industry expertise in the entirety of major telecommunications standards up to 5G, OSI and network layer communications. This expert spent many years with industry leader R&D groups as a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff covering 2G, 3G, 4G and WiFI OFDM platforms. All deploy Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM). This expert also developed OFDM based 802.11a hardware platforms. This expert was a member of the 3GPP RAN4 standards body for HSPA and LTE.
This expert has expertise at the application, transport, network, MAC, and PHY layers for telecommunications and understands video broadcast standards from both the image processing and communication standpoint. This expert has significant expertise on the design of communication networks, software defined radio, software programs, hardware systems and the integration of wired and wireless services.
Additionally, this expert holds 10 US patents and has developed OFDM based communication link simulators in industry, in graduate courses, and for a litigation matter as part of a damage award assessment. This expert has prior litigation experience including deposition and court testimony.
Start Hardware Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #263714
This expert holds an MS in Engineering and serves as President and CTO for a highly sought-after consultancy. This expert specializes in Electronic Imaging Systems, Electronic & Wireless Transfer Systems, Hardware & Software Development, and Product Development & Enhancements.
This expert is very familiar with the systems used for the capture and transfer of video/images and their wireless transfer. This expert served in several technical and management roles for a public company including Research Scientist, Chief Engineer, and Program Manager all dealing with digital imaging and Advanced Digital Camera operations. As such, this expert was hands-on with efforts regarding:
- defining, and performing R&D projects focused on hybrid imaging systems- the design and programming of DSP-based image processing solutions requiring multiple DSPs- leading a team of engineers that developed a USB digital video camera. This video camera was capable of streaming video at one (lower) resolution, while also supporting the transfer of a second (higher) resolution image under the control of the host computer. This expert has several patents as a result of the development of this product. This expert later led a digital camera advanced development group that deployed numerous new product features including simultaneous (low res) video preview, compression and (hi res) capture to flash memory storage.Additionally, this expert has the hardware and software expertise to work with a legal team to devise and direct reverse engineering experiments and efforts directed to assessment of infringement. This expert is also familiar with the patent process, claims language and patents generally.
Start Hardware Engineering 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 Hardware Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #218672
This expert holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science and is a Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at a technology institute. The creator of a start-up which develops image and video processing software for wireless and IP networking, this expert has been active in the areas of voice and audio processing for many years. This expert is a Fellow of the IEEE, and has received awards for contributions to electrical engineering. This expert has reviewed and analyzed software and hardware designs through source code analysis for pre/post-litigation phases. This expert leads several large technology research programs in the areas of multimedia, networking, telecommunications and wireless technologies and has authored or edited several books. This expert is a frequent consultant to the industry. 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), and has been engaged as a litigation expert of graphics processing systems and components. This expert has testified at ten trials and was deposed over forty times.
Start Hardware Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #223021
This expert has designed ASICs, FPGAs, and PC boards for RISC-based parallel processor systems, vector supercomputers, laser printers, hardware emulators, network switches and routers, and various real-time systems. In addition to technical work, this expert provides technical consulting and serves as an expert witness for technical litigation providing experience in reverse engineering hardware and software, analyzing and interpreting patents and trade secrets, and testifying at depositions and trials.
This expert has written technical papers on hardware and software design methods, and has taught courses on Verilog, ASIC, and FPGA design at engineering conferences throughout the world. This expert holds 22 patent and is a Senior Member of the IEEE. This expert is also the president of a leading provider of software forensics tools for litigation. This expert is certified in the use of CodeSuite® and has a master's degree and two bachelor's degrees.
This expert worked on touch sensitive user interface technology in a high profile case. This expert is also well versed in power constraints generally. This expert has extensive litigation experience having been deposed at least a dozen times and testified at trial.
Start Hardware Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #226413
This expert holds an MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering. This expert is a Licensed Professional Electronics Engineer and Expert Witness practicing forensic and technical electrical engineering consulting. This expert’s technical engineering practice includes the design, verification, measurement and testing of electronic signal processing hardware circuits and systems, both integrated circuits and electrical modules, which are used for communication and electro-mechanical control. This expert’s forensic engineering practice includes forensic investigation, advising, reporting and testimony in matters regarding intellectual property, patents, failure analysis, product liability, product requirements and specifications.
For many years this expert worked with built-in self-test (BIST) for integrated circuits. Both digital (which is most common) and analog. BIST systems which generate and deliver test stimulus to one or more circuit nodes, capture resulting signals at one or more circuit nodes, process the captured signals to derive an “answer” which is compared to an expected answer, and finally take action depending on the results.
This expert has extensive prior litigation experience, including hostile trial cross-examination and deposition questioning.
Start Hardware Engineering 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 Hardware Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #123215
This wireless communications expert holds a PhD and is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering whose work focuses on modern wireless systems, standards, and communications technologies. This expert has contributed to the development of a number of communications standards, including Bluetooth, DSL, Wi-Fi, cellular, and VITA 49, serving at times in leadership positions in standardization organizations. Current research interests include most aspects of modern wireless systems and standards. This expert has contributed to over 100 publications and has held a board-level role with a prominent standards association, while also serving as an editor for a wireless and radio communication standards publication. Publication topics include 4G networks, 5G mobile networks, 5G systems, base stations, cloud radio access networks, radio access networks, and many other areas.
This expert has conducted research and published on RAN technology and RRUs, including hardware and software architecture. This expert has worked as an expert witness on RAN technology and has served as an expert witness in a criminal trade secret case involving analysis of whether hardware and software from one product were used to develop subsequent hardware and software. This expert has been deposed over 50 times and has testified a number of times at trial.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Hardware Engineering Expert SearchExpert 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.
Start Hardware Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #225323
This computer science/GPU expert holds a Ph.D. and is an academic professor specializing in computer science and engineering, with senior leadership experience at a private technology company. This expert has held adjunct academic appointments in biomedical engineering and advanced computing for art and design. This expert earned undergraduate degrees in computer science and Applied Mathematics from a well-regarded public university, followed by M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from another well-regarded public university.
This expert previously spent over 10 years as a researcher at a national laboratory, developing complex simulation codes and associated visualizations, and later led research efforts in scientific visualization, computer graphics, and virtual reality with substantial research funding. This expert's research interests include computer graphics, game technologies, serious games, games for health, virtual reality, real-time rendering, scientific visualization, and medical imaging.
This expert serves or has served on editorial and conference boards for prominent visualization, computer graphics, and related technical forums, including major publications and conference series in visualization and computer graphics. This expert has authored over 100 scientific publications and remains actively involved in the graphics community, including through membership in a prominent computer society. This expert also regularly consults on legal matters involving patents and copyrights, general programming issues, and .NET technologies.
This expert has served as an expert witness in numerous patent litigation and trade secret matters involving GPU architecture, shader pipelines, and graphics hardware acceleration. Roles have included authoring expert reports, providing deposition and trial testimony, and supporting counsel through technical analysis, claim interpretation, and code review. This expert has testified before the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) and has been deposed several times.
This expert's litigation experience includes ITC and district court matters, inter partes review proceedings, and trade secret matters involving GPU and unified shader architecture, graphics hardware acceleration, semiconductor design, graphics IP, software and hardware code analysis, software forensics, GPU compression technology, and related computer graphics technologies. This expert's work has included expert reports, deposition testimony, trial testimony, declarations, technical reports, technical review, and analysis of software and hardware code.
Start Hardware Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #226813
This ASIC RE expert holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and has over 20 years of experience across technical disciplines involving chip, ASIC, and IC design.
This expert has led consulting work involving patent infringement and validity analysis, hardware and software code reverse engineering, and reviews, including soft teardowns using x-ray/CT imaging, hard teardowns, software extraction from processors and microcontrollers, and software and firmware reverse engineering. This expert has worked on hardware and software reverse engineering cases, producing numerous patent analysis reports and hardware and software reverse engineering reports.
This expert is also an Adjunct Professor in an electrical and computer engineering department, sharing knowledge and experience with the next generation of engineers and scientists. This expert has testified on many occasions.
Start Hardware Engineering Expert SearchExpert 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.
Start Hardware Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #243667
This source code expert has a BS and MS in electrical engineering and over 35 years of experience in the software industry, including extensive work in software, firmware, and hardware domains. This expert owns and operates an engineering consulting and training firm focused on engineering consulting and technical training.
This expert's expertise includes 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 substantial experience writing source code and machine code to control printer hardware, including over 15 years in a major technology company's printer research and development lab. This expert has been retained as an expert in over 30 litigation cases, including matters involving alleged failure to deliver functional source code, and has written expert reports, testified in depositions, and testified at trial.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant whose work typically involves examining software source code, hardware designs, and reverse-engineering the designs of others.
Start Hardware Engineering Expert SearchExpert 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.
Start Hardware Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #263866
This high performance computer/hardware expert holds a PhD and is a professor of electrical and computer engineering, with academic affiliations in computer science and systems engineering at a prestigious university. This expert is also affiliated with a sustainability-focused academic center and a computer systems laboratory. This expert's research area is computer architecture, with interests including reconfigurable and self-optimizing architectures, the architectural impact of disruptive technologies such as on-chip nanophotonics, and hardware-software interaction.
This expert is an endowed professor in computer engineering at a prestigious university and has been affiliated with that institution for over 20 years. This expert's research expertise is high-performance computer architecture, including microprocessors, memory systems, and computer systems. This expert has published numerous research results in top peer-reviewed venues and earned a PhD in Computer Science from a prestigious university.
This expert served as a non-testifying expert witness in a Section 337 matter before the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), devoting over 150 hours to patent invalidity issues. The work included searching for and analyzing prior art that might invalidate critical patent claims, including patents, research publications, product specifications, technology white papers, and code releases. This expert articulated invalidity positions and evaluated alternative invalidity arguments presented by counsel.
This expert's research has received a number of awards over the years, including two IEEE Micro Top Picks paper recognitions, an HPCA Best Paper award, an NSF CAREER Award, two IBM Faculty Awards, and a Distinguished Educator Award from a prominent computer science department. On the teaching side, this expert has been recognized with several College of Engineering awards for Teaching Excellence, two Most Influential College Educator/Presidential Scholar awards, and a Professor of the Year honor in a College of Engineering.
Start Hardware Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #289132
This code review expert has extensive experience conducting detailed and technically rigorous code reviews in the context of intellectual property litigation, product liability cases, and forensic investigations. The work has involved both source code and firmware analysis across a wide range of languages and platforms, including C/C++, Verilog, VHDL, Python, assembly, and embedded systems.
This expert has served as an expert witness in cases involving patent infringement and invalidity, performing source code comparisons to claimed limitations, including mapping and charting code to patent claim elements.
This expert has also addressed reverse engineering of hardware and firmware, software extraction, and review to uncover hidden functionalities, confirm the presence or absence of features, and validate trade secret misappropriation claims.
This expert often works with codebases comprising hundreds of thousands to millions of lines of code and delivers concise expert reports backed by clear and annotated code exhibits.
This expert has also analyzed proprietary RTL code in FPGA and ASIC designs to validate hardware-software interaction claims and confirm implementation of architectural claims in silicon. In multiple cases, the findings were key to claim charts and ultimate resolution through settlement or trial.
Start Hardware Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #290612
This IC design expert has extensive experience in IC design, manufacturing, and process technology, and has managed IC design hardware and software groups across multiple international locations.
This expert has held senior engineering leadership roles at fabless semiconductor companies and has experience with processor configuration, RISC design, architecture, hardware design, memory design, and software cross-assembler development. This expert designed a RISC that ran in high-volume production for years.
This expert has worked on over 65 legal matters, including many involving processor technologies.
Start Hardware Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #291174
This hardware, software, and systems design and development expert in fixed and mobile telecommunications is a chartered engineer (CEng FIET), a Fellow of a prominent engineering institution, a senior member of a prominent professional engineering association, and holds an MSc degree in Telecommunications from a prestigious university. This expert has over 30 years of continuous professional software, systems, and hardware experience gained through international work with many high-profile clients.
This expert has expertise in IPR-related matters, including prior art search and analysis, patent and essentiality issues, and FRAND. Areas of technical experience include product implementation from standards, including 3GPP 2G through 4G and LTE-A, M2M, IoT, ITU-T, and CCITT; real-time embedded software development for mobile communications and IP-based systems; mobile phone handsets; base stations; eNodeB; networks; reference platforms; IoT test systems; IPv6; automotive systems; and motorsport solutions.
This expert has a strong mix of hardware, software, and systems design and development experience, including developing projects and features from marketing concept through prototyping to final production, launch, and ongoing support, using both Agile and Waterfall methods.
This expert has invented and holds granted patents relating to fixed and mobile telecommunications. This expert has also been awarded a university-accredited Civil Expert Witness Certificate.
Start Hardware Engineering 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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