Electrical Expert Witnesses

This highly qualified Electrical Engineer and Optical Imaging expert earned a Ph.D in Optical Sciences from the University of Arizona. He is a Fellow of both the International Society of Optical Engineering and the Optical Society of America. He has won many awards throughout his career in recognition of his academic and research contributions. This expert has published over 75 peer-reviewed journal articles and has authored five textbooks. He is an authority in his field and is frequently invited to lecture as a guest speaker. He is the former President of an international society of optical engineering.

This master electrician has almost 40 years of hands on experience. His areas of expertise include national electrical code compliance, safety code compliance, high voltage electrical safety orders, grounding and bonding of electrical systems, electrical line contact, high voltage contact, power plant wiring, ANSI standards, electrical patent infringement, accident investigation and OSHA standards. He is currently a private electrical contractor in California.

This expert is a certified master electrician, commercial electrical inspector, licensed electrical contractor, and NEC expert. He also completed an OSHA 30 hour construction safety training course. He is a member of both the National Fire Protection Association and the International Association of Electrical Inspectors. He has spent multiple years as a foreman and journeyman electrician on multiple electrical projects, and is currently an education projects manager with a vocational teaching credential instructing electronics, electrical wiring and theory, and electrical contracting.

This expert is a registered professional engineer and certified journeyman electrician, belonging to such societies as the Association of Electrical Inspectors and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He has served as an electrician and electrical engineer on various projects over his 35+ year career, and is currently the president of a Forensic engineering consulting firm including Electrical, Mechanical, and Structural Engineers.

This highly qualified expert is the founder and principal of a consultancy for technology and intellectual property investigation in electrical machines, electromagnetic devices, and their applications, particularly in the automotive, aerospace and transportation fields. He holds 49 US patents with 4 more applied for, and authored or co-authored twenty-two papers in referred journals. He is the recipient of ten Best Paper Awards, seven from the IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS), and three from the Society of Automotive Engineers. This expert is also past President of the IEEE Industry Applications Society. This expert received a first degree in France from Ecole Suprieure d'Electricit and a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the Missouri University of Science and Technology. He then joined General Motors Research Laboratories, and, later on, Delphi Research Labs, when Delphi Corporation was spun off from General Motors. At both organizations he conducted research in automotive electro-mechanical systems. This expert has also served a Delphi's Advanced Powertrain Engineering organization as a group manager.

This highly qualified expert received his Ph.D in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to that, he received his M.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of Alberta and B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science. This expert has 27 years of academic teaching experience as a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the highly regarded University of Michigan. In addition to his academic teaching experience, he has 6 years Industrial R&D experience as Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories and as Senior R&D Engineer at Bharat Electronics Ltd. He also has held the prestigious position as Program Director of Emerging Models and Technologies Programs and Program Director in Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems Division at the National Science Foundation. This expert is the inventor for 5 published patents and has published over 260 technical papers and 4 books on various aspects of Very-large-scale integration (VLSI) technology and systems. His inventions in testable DRAM circuits, in-line accelerated testing procedures for high-density RAM chips, and testing of embedded ROM and SRAM through JEDEC boundary scan ports are widely used by memory and field-programmable gate array (FPGA) manufacturers. His research in biology-inspired VLSI layout synthesis, self-healing VLSI design and self-repairable memory compilers has made commercial impact. His research group has developed a Quantum SPICE simulator to design several innovative quantum tunneling based circuits that were fabricated by many U.S. companies. He has been awarded many honors including Digital's Incentives for Excellence Award, BF Goodrich National Collegiate Invention Award, and the DARPA Research Excellence Award. This expert is an American Association for the Advance of Science Fellow and an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow for his distinguished contributions to the field of VLSI. He has served as a Consultant for several semiconductor companies as well as an Adviser and Expert Witness in 8 lawsuits involving DRAM, SRAM, Flash, and FPGA. Currently, he is a Tenured Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at a major university where he continues to make active contributions to the field of semiconductor memory systems, quantum tunneling circuits and CAD Tools, and Reliable VLSI Systems Design.

This highly qualified expert is a semiconductor memory industry analyst with a strong engineering background. He received his B.A. in Electrical Engineering at Georgia Tech and his M.A. in Business Administration at the University of Phoenix. He is a patent holder in cache memory design, has published 50+ articles in the field, and is the creator of two independent blogs that frequently cover both memory and SSD technologies. He has strong ties with all major memory chip makers (Samsung, Micron, SK hynix, SanDisk, Toshiba, Intel, Macronix, Spansion, etc) other members of the memory ecosystem (Kingston, PNY, Applied Materials, etc.) and SSD makers and users (IBM, Western Digital, Seagate, Kingston, etc.) This expert has 32 years professional experience and deep technical knowledge in the semiconductor space. He has worked at Intel Corporation, National Semiconductor, Siemens, Integrated Device Technology, and other leading firms. As Director and Chief Analyst at Dataquest, he was responsible for all memory forecasts, models, and analysis. As Senior Director of Corporate marketing at a major technology firm, he implemented marketing programs to sell SST’s flash memories. As Director of a flash memory research firm., he developed key analysis of memory markets and led the analysts team's research efforts in chip and application markets. Currently, he is the President of a semiconductor market research firm, where he is the leading analyst for the semiconductor memory and SSD markets.

This expert brings 40+ years of electrical engineering experience to a continuing career in failure analysis and electrical fire investigations. In addition to his professional work for several industrial firms, he has taught these subjects at the Illinois Fire Academy., Wisconsin IAAI.

This highly qualified expert is an electrical engineer by training with forensic experience in electronic communications and control systems. He has 40 years of industry experience and has authored 20+ peer-reviewed technical publications. This expert has extensive expert witness experience in cases involving mobile telephone systems, electronic surveillance systems, industrial machinery, and automotive electronics. Currently, he operates a forensic engineering consultancy specializing in electrical devices and electronic systems. His geographic area is the eastern USA.

This decorated expert has a quarter century of electrical engineering experience, earning graduate qualifications at MIT, where his work had important biomedical applications. He is a member of several professional societies such as the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers and Virginia Academy of Science. Active in research, he has won numerous grants and has been published widely. He has consulted on IP issues in the past and holds several patents for his inventions.

This expert has 25 years of experience in the field of electrical engineering and has owned and operating a successful engineering firm and consultancy for the past 17 years. He earned his PhD in Electrical Engineering at the University of South Florida, where he wrote his dissertation on arc flash hazard mitigation. He has been hired to analyze more than 100 electrical power systems and regularly conducts training on the the hazards of arc flashes, in keeping with the safety procedures recommended by the IEEE, NFPA, and OSHA.

This licensed engineer earned his BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Missouri and is a certified fire & explosion investigator. He has held a number of electrical engineering and products safety positions throughout his career, specializing in EE, product development, technical management, design verification, advanced troubleshooting, and failure analysis. This expert is currently a Senior Professional Engineer at a private Engineering consultancy.

This expert specializes in electrical engineering issues, and has performed numerous investigations into fires caused/allegedly caused by electrical issues. His experience includes evaluation of electronics products and their failure modes to determine whether they adhered to relevant safety standards, including those established by Underwriters Laboratories and the Canadian Standards Association. He has also evaluated products and components for structural wiring compliance with the National Electric Code. His projects have included a wide array of products and components, including but not limited to electronics, appliances, HVAC/R, residential and commercial wiring, and battery failure analysis, with an emphasis on lithium ion battery chemistry. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in multiple states, and holds a Certified Fire and Explosion Investigator certification.

This electrical expert has nearly forty years of experience in the electrical industry, having been a licensed Master Electrician for a quarter century. He currently serves as a faculty member in the electrical apprenticeship program at a technical college in Wisconsin. He is a member of the National Fire Protection Association and the International Association of Electrical Inspectors.

This highly qualified professional engineer earned a BS at Seton Hall University, an MS in Electrical Engineering at University of Maryland, an MS in Business Management at Florida Institute of Technology, and a PhD in Electrical Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He specializes in audits, programs, and training for electrical safety, as well as compliance review and testing for product safety. He has reviewed a number of cases involving electrical/battery fires, electrocution/electrical accidents, lightning, and safety. He belongs to a number of prestigious institutions in the electrical engineering field, and currently serves as the principal consulting engineer at his own private engineering and consultancy firm.

This expert is a licensed professional engineer in New Jerseym and has more than 30 years experience in the defense industry. He is trained and knowledgeable in gps tracking and audio and visual surveillance.

This expert is currently the Vice President of a company engaged in the construction and maintenance of electric utliity infrastructure. Prior to joining tht company, he was Vice President at Osmose Utilities Services, Inc. for 8 years in both operations and business development engaged in utility system maintenance and field data capture. This expert has over 20 years of electric utility craft, engineering and management experience at a fortune 250 utility. He received his Electrical Engineering Degree from Auburn University and MBA from Florida Institute of Technology. His utility experience includes management of large construction, maintenance and engineering organizations in the areas of distribution, transmission, substation, and metering as well as management of utility contract personnel. This expert led the development and execution of a comprehensive distribution asset management strategy. He served as Director of the Major Storm Restoration Center. He received both the President's award and Chairman's award for his utility contributions and the Special Achievement Award at Osmose.

This registered Professional Electrical Engineer and Professional Control Systems Engineer earned his BS in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. He holds more than 25 US patents and is an active member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers as well as the National Fire Protection Association. For a number of years he served as the Chief Engineer at the Tyco Corporation, developing heat tracing technologies. Since 2008, he has operated an independent San Francisco Bay Area consultancy specializing in electrical and mechanical engineering.

This qualified electric shock expert obtained his BS and MS in Bioengineering and Engineering Science from Stanford University and his PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Duke University. He is a Certified Professional Engineer and is a member of multiple engineering and bioengineering associations. The expert has published 75+ articles on electric shock and medical devices. He is an Emeritus Professor of Biomedical Engineering at a top university in the South and remains active as a consultant.

This highly qualified expert received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University University. He is the primary inventor of 11 patents and has reviewed 20+ cases on patent validity and infringement since 1998. He is a Fellow of several professional organizations in the field including the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers, American Physical Society, and The Optical Society of America. Formerly, he was at AT&T Bell Laboratories where he researched novel sources of ultraviolet and soft X-ray coherent radiation, advanced lithography, picosecond optoelectronics, semiconductor physics, surface physics, MOS device physics, and integrated circuit process technology. He held management positions as Head of the Laser Science Research Department and Head of the ULSI Technology Research Department at AT&T Bell Labs. He has also done technical consulting for Rodel Inc., Alpha Golf, Inc., University Technology Ventures, Inc., and Veeco Metrology Group. Currently, this expert is the Associate Chair of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Chair of the EE Division, College of Engineering at a high-ranking major university.