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Expert Witness #263741
This expert has extensive experience in the fields of electrical and computer engineering. This expert's areas of expertise include signal/image/video processing and analysis, communication systems, microprocessor systems, biomedical data analysis, electric circuits, and related software development - and the subject matter of dual streaming video is well within this expert's area of expertise. This expert holds a PhD in electrical engineering.
This expert is a faculty member in the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of a Signal and Image Laboratory. This expert's research includes signal-image-video processing and analysis, with particular emphasis on automated image analysis. This expert regularly teaches courses in Digital Signal Processing, Digital Image Processing, Digital Image Analysis and Circuit Theory.
This expert served as Co-Director of a multi-university research center on communication circuits and systems. In addition to more than 150 publications in the field, this expert has been very active in professional activities as a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Signal Processing Society.
This expert has been involved in the IEEE Southwest Symp. on Image Analysis and Interpretation (SSIAI). In addition, this expert served on the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Committee on Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing. This expert was involved in an IEEE Intl. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP), as well as positions on numerous other professional committees.
This expert has extensive expert witness experience including being deposed and testifying at the ITC, for IPRs and in District Court.
Start Laboratory Research and Development Expert SearchExpert Witness #267522
This expert has many years of microbiology experience including practical proficiencies in pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device research and development, manufacturing quality and business development. This expert also brings to the table practical experience as a microbiology expert witness in patent litigation and product liability cases. This expert has successfully served as a microbiology expert witness on numerous cases, representing branded and generic drug companies, corporations and individuals, plaintiffs and defendants. This expert has supported clients during fact finding/expert discovery and claim construction in addition to providing consultation, patent review, expert opinion, deposition and trial testimony. This expert has also provided technical guidance to counsel in preparation of taking depositions.
This expert has significant education, training, skill sets and experience, and has provided legal support as a consultant and expert witness in many areas, including:
- Pharmaceutical microbiology
- Sterility assurance
- Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs)
- FDA regulatory compliance
- Contamination control
- Sterilization
- Preservative and antimicrobial effectiveness
- Compounding pharmacy microbiology
- United States Pharmacopoeia (USP) testing
- Laboratory operations
- Ophthalmic formulations and contact lens care
This expert’s capabilities span a wide range of applications and functions, including, but not limited to:
- Manufacturing
- Sterility assurance and aseptic processing
- cGMP compliance
- Investigations of microbial excursions, presence of objectionable organisms and out-of specification findings
- Contamination control and bioburden reduction strategies for sterile and non-sterile fill-finish facilities
- Manufacturing isolator and RABS design, cycle development and microbiological validation
- Process development
- Manufacturing facility design and qualification
- Process Analytical Technology (PAT)
- Environmental monitoring (sterile and nonsterile)
- Fermentation, recovery and purification microbiological control (API, bulk drug)
- Process water monitoring and maintenance
- Disinfection and sterilization
- Cleaning validation
- Audit readiness
- Rapid microbiological method (RMM) validation and implementation
- Microbiology Laboratory
- Laboratory audits, optimization and management
- Laboratory design, qualification, optimization and automation
- Sterility test isolator design, cycle development and microbiological validation
- cGMP compliance
- Microbiology method suitability testing, including the harmonized Sterility Test and Microbial Limits Test, Antimicrobial Effectiveness testing, USP 1223 and1227
- Sterility testing (harmonized)
- Antimicrobial and preservative effectiveness testing
- Environmental monitoring
- Pharmaceutical-grade water analysis
- Bioburden and microbiological examination of nonsterile products (harmonized Microbial Limits Test)
- Disinfectant effectiveness validation
- Microbial identification strategies and instrument/method validation, including gene sequencing and MALDI
- Endotoxin analysis and method validation
- SOP and protocol development
- Method validation and technology transfer
- Pharmacopoeia (e.g., USP, Ph. Eur., JP) interpretation and compliance
- Risk assessments (e.g., objectionable organisms, microbial data deviation, bioburden excursions)
- Documentation and data management
- Rapid microbiological method (RMM) validation and implementation
- Quality, Regulatory and Product Development
- Failure investigations and root cause analysis
- Microbial data deviation investigations
- Audit response (e.g., FDA 483, warning letters, consent decree)
- Regulatory submission support associated with microbiological processes (e.g., NDA, ANDA, IND, BLA, marketing authorization)
- Pharmacopoeia (e.g., USP, Ph. Eur., JP) compliance
- Contact lens care and ophthalmic formulation development, manufacturing, stability testing and product release
- USP 797 compliance, pharmaceutical compounding of sterile preparations (compounding pharmacies)
Start Laboratory Research and Development Expert SearchExpert Witness #121066
This semiconductor processing expert has many years of industry experience as a semiconductor process development engineer and process integration manager for several technology and semiconductor companies, with personal responsibility for semiconductor operations including photolithography, thin film deposition, and etching.
In a process integration management role at a prominent research laboratory, this expert worked with a lithography equipment company on the development of next-generation lithography tools for DUV and immersion lithography. Through intellectual property work over more than 25 years, this expert has been engaged as a technical expert to examine and opine on state-of-the-art lithography tools, materials, and processes, including EUV.
Much of this expert's prior work has involved the chemistry of chemically amplified resist materials. This expert also has experience with OLED phosphorescent emitter chemistry, including organic emitter materials designed to produce light through careful control of organometallic molecular mixtures used to control carrier transport, exciton formation, and recombination. This work has involved technical issues that share certain chemical and molecular similarities with dry resists being developed for EUV patterning, including thin-film vacuum evaporation and electron transport or transitions associated with exposure sensitivity.
Start Laboratory Research and Development Expert SearchExpert Witness #214743
This sports equipment design and patent expert is a Mechanical Engineer who holds a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics, with extensive experience developing innovative exercise and sports products using advanced technology to improve athletic performance and user experience.
This expert has decades of experience applying advanced technologies across the exercise and sporting experience. As an independent consultant and founding director of a sports innovation center at a prestigious technical university, this expert led the development of new products and technologies from early product concepts through final prototype design and testing. Many projects have received awards, including university departmental awards, conference best paper awards, and international academic design awards.
This expert's relevant professional experience includes consulting during the early development of a protective sports helmet, working with a founding team and outside laboratories on testing and evaluation of an energy-dissipation system. This expert also conducted research on sports protective gear while leading a sports innovation laboratory. Relevant work includes research and publications concerning materials and design for sports apparel, high-speed sensors and testing systems for baseball chest protectors, and testing procedures for baseball chest protection equipment.
In addition to presenting on sports technology at conferences and before committees around the world, this expert has received extensive media coverage from prominent publications and broadcast programs. This expert has provided expert witness services in numerous patent litigations relating to sports technology, including deposition testimony.
This expert has been qualified as an expert in U.S. district courts, deposed multiple times, and provided litigation consulting. Duties have included discovery assistance, literature searches, document review, patent analysis, expert and rebuttal reports, reverse engineering, technical analysis, and the design, development, and use of equipment for performance testing of patent claims.
Start Laboratory Research and Development Expert SearchExpert Witness #242474
This chemistry/toner expert holds an MS in Chemical Engineering along with CPC, CChE, and FRSC credentials, and has over 40 years of industrial and academic experience in chemistry and chemical engineering. This expert has consulted for many corporations involved in the development, optimization, patenting, marketing, and quality control of new and existing products and processes.
For the MS in Chemical Engineering, this expert developed color toners for a three-dimensional photocopying process under a grant from a government research laboratory. This expert spent over 25 years stabilizing and understanding emulsion aggregation, is a named inventor on over 20 U.S. patents, and has written over 40 peer-reviewed articles for technical publications.
This expert has served as a consulting and testifying expert in both state and Federal courts.
Start Laboratory Research and Development Expert SearchExpert Witness #270329
This food safety expert holds a Ph.D. and has expertise in food safety and quality stemming from over 35 years of experience, ranging from laboratory research to senior food safety leadership. This expert's previous industry and trade association experience includes senior regulatory and global food safety roles with major food companies, a prominent food industry trade association, and large food service and packaged-food organizations.
This expert participated in the development of FDA guidance documents for implementation of the Food Safety Modernization Act. This expert has published in professional journals and written several chapters on food service HACCP, food safety, and performance standards.
This expert has experience with nuts as a raw material and as a finished product, from peanut butter to finished packages of RTE nuts of multiple types. This expert received a Ph.D. in Food Microbiology from a well-regarded university and B.S. and M.S. degrees in Microbiology from public research universities.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Laboratory Research and Development Expert SearchExpert Witness #277367
This digital/audio/video forensics expert is a current senior laboratory leader and co-founder of a digital forensic company, with prior service as a sworn officer, forensic video examiner for a county sheriff's office crime laboratory, and Army officer in cavalry scout roles. This expert has processed digital multimedia matters for over 50 federal, state, local, and international government entities and has testified numerous times in court as an expert witness in the Digital & Multimedia Evidence (DME) field.
This expert began as a Research Analytical Biochemist for a pharmaceutical company, developing testing methods and standard operating procedures to determine whether new pharmaceuticals were safe for humans. This work provided a foundation in scientific training, quality assurance program development, and adherence to federal laboratory laws and international scientific standards.
After leaving the biotechnology field, this expert developed, validated, and implemented a forensic video analysis section for a county sheriff's office crime laboratory accredited by a prominent crime laboratory accreditation organization. This expert was among the early LEVA Certified Forensic Video Analysts and IAI Certified Forensic Video Examiners and served on a certification board.
This expert participated in a yearlong internship with a federal forensic audio, video, and image analysis unit in Virginia to further develop forensic skills at a premier laboratory. This expert has also been accepted as an Associate Member in the Digital Media Sciences Section of a prominent forensic science academy.
Start Laboratory Research and Development Expert SearchExpert Witness #277414
This automotive radiator expert holds a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering and an M.Sc. in Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, has more than 20 years of experience in advanced safety system design, R&D, production implementation, vehicle dynamic development, and high-performance driving, and helped found and serves in a senior technical leadership role at an automotive safety and research laboratory. This expert has personally impacted the safety content of over 5 million road vehicles through work in project safety and program management.
This expert has been awarded over 20 patents in the areas of safety and autonomy, including braking and ignition, adaptive cruise control, and airbag support, and is a published author in peer-reviewed technical journals.
Start Laboratory Research and Development Expert SearchExpert Witness #283693
This video processing/compression expert is a university professor with over 25 years of experience in image/video processing and compression.
This expert developed an early very low bit rate color video codec for video telephony at a major telecommunications research laboratory and subsequently established and led an R&D group focused on image/video processing and coding. Work in the field has resulted in over 250 refereed publications in high-impact venues and issued patents, and has been recognized with several prestigious awards, including election as an IEEE Fellow.
This expert has been retained as an expert consultant for IP-related matters in these areas and has served as an expert delegate to an international standards committee focused on coding of audio, picture, multimedia, and hypermedia information, including participation in JPEG/MPEG standardization activities.
This expert has directed a university R&D laboratory focused on image, video, and usability, supervising the research and development work of over 45 graduate students as main advisor and directing numerous funded projects that led to innovative technologies and successful technology transfer with industry partners in image/video processing and compression. This expert has been awarded over 5 patents in image and video processing, compression, and transmission.
Start Laboratory Research and Development Expert SearchExpert Witness #284065
This semiconductor fab equipment expert holds a Ph.D. and B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, as well as an M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Physics, and is an academic professor specializing in semiconductor design and manufacturing. This expert has taught graduate and undergraduate courses, conducted research in semiconductor fabrication, published over 110 refereed papers, and supervised over 50 M.Sc. and Ph.D. students over more than 30 years. This expert has also held academic leadership roles in an Electrical Engineering department, directed a microelectronics research and development laboratory, and served in a senior support role within an engineering dean's office at a university.
As director of a microelectronics research and development laboratory, this expert oversaw the installation and operation of a multi-tube horizontal diffusion furnace. The tubes were dedicated to doping semiconductor materials, dry oxidation, wet oxidation, annealing, silicon nitride growth, and polysilicon growth, including n-polysilicon, p-polysilicon, and intrinsic polysilicon. For research, this expert used the furnace to grow gate oxide using dry oxygen and field oxides using steam. This expert grew stoichiometric silicon nitride, S3N4, and non-stoichiometric hydrogenated silicon nitride, SiN-H, for device fabrication and isolation, in addition to polysilicon layers for the poly-gate of MOSFETs. This expert also used doping furnaces to create p-doped and n-doped regions using boron and phosphorous to build devices and integrated circuits.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Laboratory Research and Development Expert SearchExpert Witness #284552
This textile engineering, fiber, and polymer expert is a Mechanical Engineer who holds a Masters in Textiles and a Ph.D. in Fiber and Polymer science. Before entering academia, this expert worked as a Product and Process Development Engineer. In academia, this expert created courses such as Technical Textiles, Mechanics of Textile Manufacturing, and Fibrous Product Testing, as well as a High-Performance Materials Laboratory and a Polymer Processing Laboratory. This expert is well published and steeped in current research. This expert has provided deposition and trial testimony in patent infringement, product manufacturing, product design, and false product claim matters.
Start Laboratory Research and Development Expert SearchExpert Witness #285713
This athletic footwear biomechanics testing and performance expert holds a PhD in Sports Biomechanics from a well-regarded UK university and is an internationally recognized specialist in sports biomechanics, particularly athletic footwear biomechanics and related scientific areas. This expert founded and leads a consultancy focused on research, testing, and consulting services related to the biomechanical and functional aspects of footwear and related products, with experience serving major athletic footwear manufacturers.
This expert previously worked as a researcher and director of a sports research laboratory for a major athletic footwear company, then later served in a senior research, design, and product development role for another major athletic footwear company. In those roles, responsibilities included footwear-related research and testing, working with and managing athletic shoe designers and product developers, and supervising footwear testing functions.
This expert is widely published in the field, with articles on athletic shoe biomechanics, design, and related topics in running, sports science, and footwear science publications. This expert has lectured on biomechanics, sports engineering, applied biomechanics, sports science, and footwear science, and has received international recognition and awards for technical research in footwear biomechanics.
This expert has been active in a prominent international biomechanics society and helped form a footwear biomechanics group within that organization. The organization later established an award recognizing this expert's contributions to the field.
As a contributing editor for a leading running publication, this expert was responsible for evaluating products and test results and co-authored running shoe guides. In that role, this expert evaluated over 1,600 running shoe products.
This expert is a named inventor on over 10 U.S. patents, most of which relate to athletic shoes.
This expert's academic qualifications and professional experience form the basis of expertise in the science of athletic footwear function, design, testing, and technologies. In addition to qualifications as a scientist and biomechanist, experience managing product design and development and familiarity with the creation and evaluation of athletic shoe products support expertise in athletic footwear biomechanics, testing, and performance.
Start Laboratory Research and Development Expert SearchExpert Witness #291847
This antimicrobial expert holds a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in Chemistry from a well-regarded university and is a department chair and professor of biochemistry, cellular, and molecular biology at a prestigious university medical school, with additional work as a visiting scientist at a federal translational science center.
The research laboratory works to elucidate mechanisms of drug resistance and to translate this knowledge toward the development of better therapy. Defects in transmembranous drug transport, ion transport, and cellular drug accumulation contribute to most examples of cellular drug resistance, so a major focus of the laboratory is to understand these phenomena in molecular terms. Current projects include cloning and expression of antimalarial drug resistance proteins, lipid kinases and other biomembrane-active enzymes, development of biochemical, immunological, and chemical biology approaches for studying their function, and design, synthesis, and testing of novel antimalarial drugs and drug combinations based on that information. There are intriguing molecular similarities between drug resistance in tumors, certain bacteria, and parasites, and this work may have broad implications.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Laboratory Research and Development Expert SearchExpert Witness #293786
This human factors and operator-vehicle interaction expert is the principal consultant for a highly respected human factors and safety consultancy. This expert holds graduate and undergraduate degrees in Experimental, Human Factors, and Cognitive/Perceptual Psychology, as well as graduate degrees in Industrial Engineering and Business.
This expert has over 40 years of experience in field and laboratory research involving control and display systems, aviation and surface vehicles, accident investigation, product design and development, and operational testing and analysis. This expert consults on human factors, applied human performance, ergonomics, and safety.
This expert's areas of expertise include human-machine interface design and evaluation, human capabilities and limitations in applied environments, industrial ergonomics, instructions and warnings, perception, vision, visibility, slips, trips, falls, evaluation of equipment, facilities, and structures from a human-use standpoint, and safety-related issues.
This expert is recognized as an expert in operator-vehicle interaction and is both a Certified Human Factors Professional (CHFP) and a Certified Safety Professional (CSP). This expert has authored over 60 technical papers, research reports, and book chapters dealing with human factors, industrial ergonomics, safety, and accident investigation.
This expert has been awarded a number of U.S. patents, as well as numerous industry awards for the design of new products, and serves on national standards-making committees for prominent standards organizations. This expert has provided expert testimony in state and federal courts across the country and has acted as lead investigator in over 500 projects over the past 20 years.
This expert spent over 25 years in the U.S. Air Force and Air Force Reserve, retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel. While in uniform, this expert worked with the Air Force Research Laboratory, primarily in pilot-vehicle interface design, display technologies, and aircrew training.
Start Laboratory Research and Development Expert SearchExpert Witness #296101
This electromechanical/product design expert holds a PhD and is an ASME Fellow with academic experience in engineering, design, computing, and mechanical engineering.
This expert completed graduate degrees in engineering and applied science at a prestigious technology institute, where this expert was a PhD scholar affiliated with a major research laboratory. This expert has held academic and leadership roles at well-regarded universities and military academic institutions, including roles focused on design innovation, engineering, and product development.
This expert has over 35 years of experience in consumer product service systems, has published over 550 refereed papers and books in design, and has received over 120 national and international awards in design.
This expert has been involved in over 200 matters in the areas of patent litigation and class action litigation and is available to provide court testimony as needed.
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