Former assistant professor of computer science and advisor to technology startups with specialized expertise in enterprise database architectures and electronic voting machines. Research interests include relational (RDBMS) and object databases (OODBMS) and other related database technologies, e-commerce systems, renewable energy and energy efficiency, voting machine privacy, and spam fighting. Also a specialist in supply chains and distributed computing. Actively involved with the IEEE, for which he is currently a senior member and has chaired and coordinated technical committees relating to database engineering and voting machine standards.

Formal Education

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, Stanford University
  • M.S. in Computer Science, Stanford University
  • B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science, City University of New York

Career Highlights

  • Former coordinator of an electronic voting standards committee and author of a book chapter about electronic voting and privacy
  • Author of two book chapters and about thirty academic papers and articles about various aspects of database design and architecture
  • For over a decade was a senior research scientist at a leading research university in the areas of database systems and electronic commerce
  • Inventor of a patented method of spam prevention
  • Author of a widely-translated and internationally-influential textbook about the Pascal programming language

Expert Qualifications

  • Retained as an expert for both plaintiffs and defendants in numerous technology litigations, including in relation to technologies from Adobe, Amazon, eBay, Dell, Electronic Arts, Google, Intuit, Lenovo, Microsoft, Oracle and Symantec
  • Testifying expert on behalf of Apple in a patent litigation case before the U.S. District Court for Eastern District of Texas
  • Submitted expert reports and declarations, testified in a Markman tutorial hearing, and was deposed twice in a high-profile dispute over patents in relational database technology
  • Testifying expert in about half a dozen Inter Partes Review (IPR) proceedings before the U.S. PTO's Patent Trial and Appeal Board

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Frequently Asked Questions

What types of cases can this expert support?

They've been retained as an expert for both plaintiffs and defendants in patent cases involving databases, software, and voting systems. They testified for Apple in patent litigation and participated in IPR proceedings before the USPTO. Most work involves relational database patents, enterprise software disputes, and electronic voting technology.

What is this expert's technical background?

PhD and MS in computer science from Stanford, plus a BS in math and computer science from CUNY. They spent over a decade as a senior research scientist at Stanford on database systems and e-commerce, and were formerly an assistant professor and startup advisor.

What technologies does this expert specialize in?

Relational and object databases, SQL, cloud database architectures. They also cover e-commerce systems, payment systems, electronic voting technology, digital privacy, and distributed computing.