Sigurd Meldal, Dr.Sc.

Sigurd Meldal is a Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering at San Jose State University and the Director of the Cybersecurity + Big Data Initiative at SJSU. He has testified in federal court and been deposed multiple times as an expert in computer science, computer engineering and software engineering. He has provided technical opinions regarding mobile devices, networks, wireless telephony, databases, service-oriented architectures, web systems, and geospatial positioning.

Services

Dr. Sigurd Meldal provides expertise and services in the following areas:

• Mobile and wireless software, operating systems, and applications
• iOS, Android, Windows Phone, BlackBerry OS (bbOS), Qualcomm Brew, Symbian, Windows 8

• Telecommunications and network protocols
• GSM, CDMA, WCDMA, LTE, 802.11, WiFi, WAN, TSL, Rapide, protocol specification

Mobile device and smartphone hardware iPhone, iPad, Qualcomm Mobile Station Modem (MSM) architectures and systems-on-a-chip (SoC), ARM processors, BlackBerry, Google, HTC, and Nokia devices

• Operating systems (OS)
• MacOSX, Unix, Linux, Windows

• Cyber security and big data
• Public policy, cyber risk management

• User interface design
• iOS, Android, Windows, BlackBerry

Design methodologies and tools Object oriented programming and design, UML, design patterns, soft formal verification and testing, concurrent systems design

• Distributed systems
• Cloud architectures, services-oriented multi-tiered architectures

• Programming languages
• VHDL, C, C++, C#, Java, assembly languages, Fortran, Cobol, Simula, Snobol

• Databases
• SQL, MySQL

Software architecture and distributed systems Service-oriented architectures, networked server architectures, architecture prototyping frameworks, architecture description languages, large-scale conformance checking, and other areas

Other Geographic information systems, bioinformatics, software and computer engineering accreditation/professional standards

Litigation Support Services

Dr. Meldal has provided technical opinions in IP litigation regarding mobile devices, networked systems and services-oriented architectures. In particular, he has assisted in litigation and related processes involving smartphones, wireless communication and telephony, networked database systems, location-oriented web services, and mobile device positioning systems.

Areas of Expertise

• Computer
• Mobile Devices
• Software
• Software Engineering

• Software Failure
• Software Patent
• Technology
• Telecommunications

• User Interface Design
• Wireless Communication
• Wireless Networks
• Wireless Technology

Profile

Well known as an influential scholar in the computer science community for his discoveries and inventions in the areas of software engineering, computer programming, and theoretical computer science.

Serves as Director of the Cybersecurity + Big Data Initiative, where he is spearheading new research and graduate programs in cyber security and data sciences.

Previously served as Chair of the Department of Computer Engineering at San Jose State University, where he remains a tenured faculty member in both the Computer Engineering and Computer Science Departments.

Has testified in federal court and been deposed as an expert witness about iOS, Android, AMSS, and Blackberry software running on Apple, Qualcomm and other mobile hardware platforms, as well as more generic software systems and networked server architectures.

Co-authored the seminal paper on the algebraic foundations of non-deterministic operators, which has been widely cited by his academic peers in related research publications.

Was a senior researcher in the project developing the Rapide language framework for prototyping of distributed architectures and the abstraction mechanisms necessary for large-scale conformance checking.

Authored the curriculum for Cal Poly’s new undergraduate degree in software engineering and San Jos’ State University’s new BS and MS Software Engineering degrees.

Has worked with universities in India and China to establish collaborative frameworks for student and faculty exchanges, and for dual or joint degree programs bringing together students from different countries into one educational context.

Has published a book and more than 60 peer-reviewed technical papers on a broad spectrum of practical and theoretical subjects in software engineering and computer science.

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