Scientist, educator, and technologist with over thirty years of experience. Leading expert in datacom and telecom communications and protocols, including TCP/IP for Internet, LAN/WAN, streaming audio and video, and also wireless technologies such as 802.11 (WiFi) and cellular/LTE.  

Formal Education

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of California Berkeley
  • M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Tel Aviv University
  • B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science, Tel Aviv University

Career Highlights

  • Served as a Principal Investigator (PI) for three DARPA-funded (U.S. Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) projects
  • Co-author of over two dozen scientific publications, journal articles, and peer-reviewed papers
  • Named inventor on over one hundred and twenty issued U.S. patents
  • Led and developed the first network resource scheduling service for grid computing
  • Managed and engineered the first demonstrated transatlantic dynamic allocation of 10 Gbs Lambdas-as-a-Grid service
  • Developed a successful demonstration of the first wire-speed active network on commercial hardware

Expert Qualifications

  • Testifying expert in litigations for plaintiffs and defendants in all major venues and relating to more than one hundred and forty patents alleged to be invalid and/or infringed, including for technologies used by major companies such as Amazon, Apple, Cisco, Comcast, DirecTV, Ericsson, FedEx, Google, HP, Huawei, IBM, LG, Microsoft, Motorola, Netflix, Samsung, and Tesla
  • Deposed more than 70 times and testified about half a dozen
  • Submitted expert reports and was deposed on behalf of Facebook and WhatsApp in a set of IPRs opposing Uniloc before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's PTAB relating to technologies for mobile wireless communications, including Voice-over-IP (VoIP), SMS and MMS messages, and chat functions

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Frequently Asked Questions

What types of cases can this expert support?

Telecommunications and internet infrastructure patents, working for both plaintiffs and defendants. They've testified in 140+ cases covering cellular, WiFi, cloud computing, and IP protocols. That includes litigation involving Amazon, Apple, Cisco, Google, Samsung, and other major tech companies.

What is this expert's technical background?

PhD in Computer Science from UC Berkeley; MS in Electrical Engineering and BS in Math & CS from Tel Aviv. Over 30 years in industry and research. PI on three DARPA projects, 120+ issued US patents, and two dozen published papers. Also built some of the first large-scale grid computing and active networking systems.

What technologies does this expert specialize in?

Core internet infrastructure—TCP/IP, routing protocols, SNMP, and email systems (POP/IMAP/SMTP). Also cellular/LTE and WiFi standards, cloud computing, and signal processing. They work in C, C++, Java, and Python, with deep Linux and Android experience.