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This Boston based expert earned his Bachelor's of Science degree in electrical engineering from Tufts University. He began his career in medical device design at Siemens Medical Systems, thereafter serving as the Director of Engineering for Aspect Medical Systems, the developer of the world's first anesthesia monitor, which is now in 90% of operating rooms worldwide, and has served at least 200 million patients. He serves on the scientific advisory boards of several medical device firms including Safe-Op Surgical, a manufacturer of intraoperative nerve monitors.

This professor and entrepreneur earned his BS in Engineering and Applied Science from Caltech and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California. An active researcher, he has authored and co-authored nearly 100 peer reviewed technical papers; his scholarly work focuses on the intersection of acoustics, psychoacoustics and audio signal processing. Twenty years ago, he founded his university's Immersive Audio Laboratory, as well as an Integrated Media Systems Center funded by the National Science Foundation. His research has been supported by the US Army, DARPA, and several industry sponsors. He is the recipient of the World Technology Network Award.

This expert is a multi-disciplined inventor with dozens of patents and applications, and a seasoned business creator with 23 years of experience in various areas of Automotive Electronics, Consumer Electronics, and Electronic Product Design. In 1991, he established a design, manufacturing and distribution facility for his dozens of inventions. He is currently a consultant working primarily in the litigation context of electronics.

This expert has designed and improved over 400 machines for the food, pharmaceutical, electronics, mining, consumer goods and automotive industries. He has led major design projects for Fortune 500 Companies, such as Unilever, Coca-Cola, Nestle, Komatsu, Caterpillar, and Hitachi. He earned his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Mechanical Engineering in Italy, and has gained considerable professional experience in the United States, having recently served as the Chief Engineer for American Conveyor.

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 qualified expert of Wearable / Heart Rate Monitoring Technology completed his education in Electrical & Computer Engineering at Ben-Gurion University (Israel). He has 40+ Publications and 8 Patents and is currently an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at an Engineering School in New York.

This engineering expert has over 30 years of experience in the field. He earned his Bachelor of Engineering and his Master of Engineering Science in Ireland before coming to the United States while working for Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems, where he designed electronic hardware and system software for air braked truck / trailer ABS and traction control systems. He then worked on ABS and traction control for passenger cars and subsequently started the Electronics Division at Wabash National which he led from 1998 to 2003. From 2004 until 2007, the expert worked for Dana Commercial Vehicle Systems, where he spent a year leading the development of automatic tire inflation products for commercial and military applications. Before starting his own consultancy he led the development of Traction Control, ABS and related technology for Caterpillar Inc. from 2007 to 2015. This included positioning Caterpillar as the industry leader in differential clutch based drive torque distribution and traction control for off highway vehicles. He has been granted 23 patents and is a Member of the Society of Automotive Engineers and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

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.

His research interests include advanced materials and their applications in renewable energy devices, environmental science and smart electronics.

This well credentialed expert is a Professor and Distinguished Chair in Computer Science for a public university in Texas. He is also Professor Emeritus in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University, where he taught and performed research for 20 years. He has about 30 years of professional experience in communication networks, wireless communication, and wireless and mobile networks. The expert earned his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Stanford University; he also has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Technion and an M.S. in the same field from Tel-Aviv University. He has headed the Wireless Networks Lab, an internationally recognized research group at Cornell. The expert has over 200 journal and conference publications. He has been granted 18 patents with 2 additional patents pending. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a member of the IEEE's Communications Society, as well as a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

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 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 expert is very well qualified the field of electrical engineering and power source design and qualification. He received his BS and ME in Biomedical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Power Sources Manufacturing Association and several branches of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers including IEEE Consultants Network and Chairs the San Francisco Bay Area IEEE Power Electronics Society. This expert specializes in analog/digital power and design as well as hardware failure analysis, manufacturing, and market analysis. He is currently a Principal at a power design consultancy that specializes in enterprise-level and consumer applications.

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.

This former technology executive is a longtime innovator with significant contributions to the wireless telecommunications industry. Over the course of his career, he filed 2,066 invention applications worldwide; the expert has been issued 187 U.S. patents and has 200+ pending applications. His experience spans wireless technology, systems, and networks, including 5G and IoT. He earned his M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California and is a Senior Life Member of the IEEE. From 1990 until 2016, the expert worked for Qualcomm Technologies and was most recently the Vice President of Technology, with 22 engineers reporting to him. He now runs his own wireless technology consulting firm.

This expert has over 25 years in electrical engineering and product development. He gained his MS and PhD in electrical engineering and systems from the University of Pennsylvania. After serving as an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the Illinois Institute, he transitioned to industry and spent 13 years at Motorola Mobility developing wireless products. He ended his tenure as Motorola's vice president of product management and development. Currently he is developing products at a start-up in Massachusetts.

This expert has over 35 years experience in technology-based products and services, wired and wireless communications, and the Cable Television industry sectors. He has a Bachelors and Masters in Electrical Engineering as well an MBA from Temple University. He has 23+ patents within the industry for Cable TV and consumer electronics products. He has worked for a number of telecom and PV companies including Motorola, General Instrument, Closed Networks, and Aurora Control Technologies. In these roles he has experience in strategic planning, product and system design, as well as implementation of corporate initiatives. Specifically, he has designed and tested of portable 2-way communications equipment, as well as developed, patented and launched systems internationally for an innovative Interactive (Internet) TV system for CATV. As an independent consultant for Tyco/ADT, he completed a full analysis of potential home and health care segments and competitive products. He is currently the Director Business Development for a Cable Television Hardware Manufacturer.

This engineer has a wealth of experience in the fields of power electronics, system dynamics and control, and applied superconductivity. Having earned his doctoral degree in electrical and mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he worked at the university for more than a decade, serving as a Principal Research Scientist, and was the Director of the MIT/Industry Consortium on Advanced Automotive Electrical/Electronic Components and Systems. At the General Electric Corporate Research and Development Center, he led a number of advanced development projects in applied superconductivity, including the largest superconducting generator (20 MVA) to be operated at full load. He has authored 50 publications and holds 11 patents, and is currently active both as an author and an inventor.

This qualified expert earned his BS in physics from University of Washington and his MS in mathematics from University of Oregeon. He also completed a MS in applied physics from the Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology and his PhD in electrical engineering at Oregon Health and Science University. He subsequently entered an NIH-funded postgraduate fellowship in dermatology at the Oregon Health & Science University. After serving for a number of years as an associate professor in bioengineering and dermatology at the University of Missouri, he now directors the department of biomedical engineering at a private university in Pennsylvania.