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Bert Schiettecatte provides consulting and expert witness services in matters involving software engineering, hardware engineering, and computer science. He is retained in intellectual property disputes, including patent infringement and trade secret misappropriation, as well as in cases involving breach of contract, breach of warranty, and related technical issues.
His work includes technical analysis, expert reports, and testimony, source code review, and technical due diligence. He has experience evaluating complex systems involving embedded platforms, real-time audio and video processing, wireless technologies, and proprietary trading systems.
Areas of technical focus include audio and video processing software, digital signal processing, wireless devices and protocols, wireless sensor systems, consumer electronics, device firmware, industrial control systems, desktop and server software, embedded systems, Linux kernel development, computer forensics, open-source software, and algorithmic trading platforms.
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Qualifications:
Mr. Schiettecatte holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), awarded summa cum laude. He also earned a Master of Arts in Music, Science and Technology from Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA).
He is fluent in English, Dutch, and French.
He is a Fellow of the Belgian-American Educational Foundation (BAEF), an honorary Fulbright Fellow, and a recipient of the Audio Engineering Society (AES) Educational Foundation Grant. He received the Qwartz Max Mathews Award for the invention of AudioCubes, a tangible user interface system for sound design.
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Experience:
With more than twenty years of industry experience, Mr. Schiettecatte has designed and implemented complex software and hardware systems across commercial and research environments. He is the founder of Percussa, a consumer electronics and professional audio technology company, where he led the development of multiple commercial products.
He is also the founder of Noisetron LLC, a software and hardware engineering and expert witness consulting practice. Representative projects include the development of real-time computer vision software used to control audio DSP algorithms, as well as the design and implementation of algorithmic trading software featuring low-latency exchange connectivity for financial markets.
His work also includes the creation of a GPU-accelerated data visualisation software written in C++ using OpenGL, developed to analyse very large exchange market data sets efficiently. In addition, he has designed and implemented audio DSP modules and modular synthesis engines for advanced sound generation and audio processing applications.
Further engineering experience includes the development of a Linux-based multichannel audio DSP platform and the design of wireless protocols together with custom input devices for tangible user interface systems.
Mr. Schiettecatte has also served as a teaching assistant at both Leuven Catholic University (KUL) and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), where he instructed graduate students in information theory and digital signal processing.
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