This Ph.D. has over 30 years of academic and professional experience in speech and audio signal processing, speech and audio signal compression technology, standards for speech and audio compression, and software implementation on real-time platforms and in client/server architectures. He was a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories for 16 years, was founder of two start-ups: Audio Research Labs and Light speed Audio Labs, and is adjunct faculty at New York University. He has significant patent litigation expert witness experience,including analysis, report-writing, giving depositions and testifying at jury trial. He has published widely, including authoring one book, several book chapters and numerous journal and conference papers and also holds 23 patents.  This Expert is a Fellow of the Audio Engineering Society (AES) and a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

§ Measurement ofspeech & audio signal quality

§  Operating Systems: Unix, MS Windows (hardware drivers and GUI)

§  Programming Languages: C and C++, Matlab, shell, various assembly languages

§  Speech & audio compression standards: MPEG MP3, AAC, HE-AAC, MPEG Surround, Spatial Audio Object Coding (SAOC), Unified Speech &Audio Coding (USAC); 3GPP aacPlus,Enhanced aacPlus, AMR, AMR-WB, AMR-WB+; ETSI GSM.

§  Speech & audio digital signal processing (DSP)

§  Speech & audio signal compression

§ Web Languages:PHP, MySQL

• Ph.D., Electrical Engineering: Georgia Institute of Technology
• M.S., Electrical Engineering, Specializing in Signal Processing: Georgia Institute of Technology
• B.S.E., Electrical Engineering with Honors: Princeton University