Barr Group's electronics and software expert witnesses are highly skilled communicators with strong industry and academic credentials and a broad range of technical skills to assist as litigation consultants. Our experts are located in all parts of the United States and Canada and serve legal clients all over the world.
Barr Group's Expert Witness Team
Each member of our expert team is highly qualified in one or more technology areas from wireless and cellular network protocols, to cryptography and computer security or medical electronics, to smartphones and mobile apps, among others.
Please contact us for help selecting among these and our other expert witnesses. Each summary below contains a link to profile pages with more information about the level education such as PhD, years of industry experience, areas of specialization, and testifying experience.
What follows is a representative subset of our testifying software experts. It is organized by industry of expertise, though many experts have experience in more than one of these. For a larger selection of experts in a given area, click on that type of expertise to the right.
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Artificial Intelligence
Automotive Systems
Automotive engineer with twenty five years of experience in vehicle design as well as in forensic consulting for attorneys regarding product liability litigations.
Independent consultant and former professor of technical product management with decades of industry experience in automotive sensors, electronics, and systems.
Electrical engineer with over thirty years of experience in the development and deployment of automotive electronic systems, including safety systems.
Cloud Computing
A licensed professional engineer in the U.S. and Canada and an engineer with over twenty years of experience in the field of data center design and management.
Computer scientist with over forty years of industry experience in design of computer systems, communications systems, electronics, and software.
Former professor of computer science and advisor to technology startups with specialized expertise in enterprise database architectures and electronic voting machines.
Computer Security
Electrical engineer with extensive electronics and software product development experience across a broad range of industries and platform architectures.
Former computer science professor who taught courses in operating system and compiler design and also designed datacom equipment for decades.
Security consultant and professor who has developed novel and patented security technologies including for biometric and physical security.
Consumer Electronics
Consultant and trainer with over thirty years of hands-on professional experience in the design and testing of software, firmware, and electronics.
Electronic Circuits
Electrical engineer with broad industry experience in development and manufacturing of electronic products.
Storage and memory expert with more than thirty years of experience in all phases of design and implementation of computer semiconductor devices.
Mechanical engineer with hands-on experience in all phases of product engineering, including syst
Electronics and computer science expert with more than twenty-five years of hands-on experience a
Electrical engineer and independent consultant specializing in the design of microcontroller-based embedded control systems, especially those with a wireless communications requirement.
Consulting electrical engineer with decades of experience in design of integrated circuits and software systems for electronic design automation (EDA).
Physicist with over three decades of industry experience and a prolific innovator in electro-opti
Electrical engineer and computer scientist with extensive technical skills in both digital electr
Founder and president of an independent regulatory-compliance testing laboratory with over thirty
Enterprise Software
Former director of software development and Certified ScrumMaster with more than twenty years of
Professor of computer science and early pioneer in the areas of moving target cyber defenses, mob
Independent information technology consultant with two decades of hands-on experience in the fiel
MIT-educated technology entrepreneur with hands-on engineering experience and wide expertise including in big data and chat and instant messaging protocols.
Former adjunct professor of computer science and university researcher turned industry consultant
Distinguished professor of computer science with expertise in electronic voting, artificial intelligence, digital libraries, and electronic payment and e-commerce systems.
Computer scientist and executive with experience managing development of a range of computer syst
Independent consultant and former vice president of engineering with significant experience leadi
Financial Technology
Experienced developer of high-reliability business computing systems and large-scale software projects, especially in the world of banking and financial technology.
Consultant with over thirty-five years of industry experience in smart card-based solutions for payments and digital security.
Firmware and IoT
Former adjunct professor of computer engineering with more than twenty-five years of experience in the software industry, including over a decade spent developing software for embedded systems.
Professor of electrical and computer engineering with significant industry experience in telecom,
Software and systems engineer with several decades of hands-on experience in the design and imple
Stanford-educated professor of electrical engineering and computer science whose career in industry began at AT&T Bell Labs and has specialized expertise in cyber-physical systems, IoT technologies, and computer vision.
Professor of computer science with specialized expertise in network quality of service, routing, and visualization as well as remote sensing.
Adjunct professor of computer science with two decades of industry experience in software engineering and all phases of the software development life cycle.
Industrial Controls
Mechanical and electrical engineering consultant and professor with decades of experience in syst
Registered professional engineer and licensed electrical contractor with more than forty years of hands-on experience in UL and NEC-compliant electrical system design.
Registered Professional Engineer (PE) with several decades of hands-on industry experience developing products and software for industrial, consumer, enterprise, military, and medical applications.
Electrical engineer and expert in battery and power electronics technology with special technical expertise in motor drives and inverters.
Medical Devices
Professor of electrical and computer engineering with decades of experience at the forefront of the design and fabrication of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and nanoelectronic devices.
Research scientist and independent consultant with a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and specialized expertise in signal, image, video, and content processing and data compression.
Experienced computer engineer and corporate information technology leader with a successful track
Electrical and computer engineering professor with decades of experience in computer architecture
Engineer with over thirty-five years of experience designing electronics and software for consumer electronics products and safety-critical medical devices.
Former assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering and Oxford-educated materials s
Consultant certified in regulatory requirements for medical with more than twenty-five years of e
Former director of software engineering and independent consultant with deep experience in the medical products and telecommunications industries and FDA 510(k), ISO-13485, and IEC-62304 compliant software quality systems.
Military & Aerospace
Engineering consultant with nearly thirty years of hands-on software development experience designing products ranging from autonomous underwater robots to cable modems and set-top boxes.
USAF Academy researcher in image processing and GPS-denied navigation with decades of experience in control systems design and DSP algorithms for applications including drone unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
FAA-certified Designated Engineering Representative (DER), flight instructor, and commercial pilot and former director of engineering and chief software architect for next generation cockpit flight displays.
Electrical engineer with substantial design experience in the fields of GPS and navigation system
Embedded systems industry veteran who built or managed the development of more than one hundred computer products.
Adjunct professor of computer science and independent consultant with decades of experience in the field of telecommunications and information security. Has specialized technical expertise in GPS, VPNs, digital and analog electronics including RF signals and antennas, data communications and networks including fiber-optics, cellular protocols, and communication satellites.
Mobile Devices & Apps
Computer scientist and inventor with decades of hands-on experience applying emerging technologies to create successful software applications and apps for a variety of computing platforms, including Android and iOS smartphones, Macs, and Windows PCs.
Professor of electrical engineering and an award-winning innovator in the areas of wireless communication systems and mobile networks who has testified as an expert witness.
Accomplished software and systems engineer with specialized expertise in user interface design and human factors issues for embedded, mobile, web, desktop, and server software.
Professor of engineering with decades of experience developing novel technologies and expertise in virtual reality, streaming multimedia, image processing and computer vision, artificial intelligence, and robotics.
Professor emeritus of computer science at one university and an associate professor of the same a
Electrical engineer with two decades of experience in the design of embedded systems with a particular emphasis on the internals of Linux and its filesystems.
Computer engineer and consultant with more than two decades of industry experience developing software for embedded systems and mobile apps powered by Android, Linux, Windows, and real-time operating systems such as VxWorks.
Renewable Energy
Technology consultant with more than thirty years of experience in battery, materials, and control system technology and strong capabilities in all aspects of battery systems and energy storage.
Professor of electrical and computer engineering with over twenty-five years of experience in materials science, systems engineering and design of microelectronics.
Chemist and portable power expert with thirty years of industry experience in the fields of lithi
Chemist and consultant with four decades of experience in the area of electrochemical energy rela
Experienced electrochemist, consultant, and adjunct professor of materials science and engineerin
Signal Processing
Professor of electrical engineering who has spent over two decades researching and inventing algorithms at the intersection of acoustics, digital signal processing, and machine learning.
Consultant and professor of electrical and computer engineering who is a named inventor on about
Consultant and former professor of computer science with decades of hands-on experience in speech recognition, IVR, RFID, streaming multimedia, and data encryption.
Over forty years of academic and engineering experience and twenty years of expert witness experience in computer science, software development, embedded systems, enterprise software, and especially signal processing for audio and music technology.
PhD electrical engineer and data communications expert with three decades of professional industr
Telecommunications
Career consultant in the field of telecommunications and information services with extensive involvement in the design of major voice and data networks.
Independent engineering consultant in the design of both electronics and software with a formal education in electrical and mechanical engineering.
Former lecturer and consultant in the field of digital communications technologies with industry-
MIT-educated electrical engineer, computer scientist, and physicist with over two decades of technology expertise in areas including data communications, network processors, TCP/IP protocols, fiber optic networks, and VoIP.
Professor of electrical engineering and computer science with decades of R&D experience in communications networks and wireless signal detection and estimation.
Professor of electrical engineering with extensive experience as a technology industry practitioner.
Independent engineering consultant specializing in wireless cellular mobile technology and real-time embedded software development.
Computer networking and wireless technology expert with over thirty years of industry experience who has been significantly involved in multiple wireless standardization efforts.
Electrical engineer and consultant with a practice in telecommunications, information technology, media, electronics, and e-business.