Technical Background
Dr. Lavian is a telecommunications expert witness and internet expert witness with a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, specializing in network communications; an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Tel Aviv University; and a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Computer Science.
He has spent nearly 20 years researching, studying, and lecturing at UC Berkeley. While at UC Berkeley, he conducted research projects in data centers (RAD Labs), network communication service architecture (SAHARA), and wireless systems (ICEBERG); served as an industry fellow and lecturer at the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology (SCET); and acted as a scientific liaison between Nortel Research Lab and UC Berkeley. He was also part of UC Berkeley’s SkyDeck start-ups, where he worked on technology research and implementation. He served as Technical Co-Chair for IEEE Interconnects at Stanford University.
He has over 35 years of experience in software development for computer networks, including protocols, architectures, configurations, and network testing. His work has covered wireless and wireline systems, routers, switches, and network devices.
Industry Experience
Dr. Lavian has held technical positions at Shalev, Scitex, Aptel Communication, Bay Architecture Labs, Java User Group—Mountain View/Silicon Valley, Nortel Labs, Ixia, CRadar.Ai, VisuMenu.inc, Aybell, and UC Berkeley, California.
During his over ten years at Nortel Networks’ Research Labs (initially Bay Networks, later acquired by Nortel), Dr. Lavian held roles as Principal Scientist, Principal Architect, and Principal Engineer. He led the development of the first network resource-scheduling service for Grid computing, demonstrated the first dynamic transatlantic allocation of 10Gbs Lambdas as a grid service, and developed the first wire-speed active network device on commercial hardware. He is an IEEE Senior Member and an active member of ACM (SIGCOM, SIGWEB) and IEEE-CNSV.
He has also served as Principal Investigator for projects at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) of the U.S. Department of Defense, including a research project for the U.S. Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) involving routing and switching optical SONET and DWDM high-speed networks.
Dr. Lavian provides consulting services in telecommunications. He has been awarded multiple patents for his developments in network security, network management, network selection, device provisioning, network/system architecture, mobility management, and access control. He has co-authored over 25 scientific publications, journal articles, and peer-reviewed papers, and is an inventor of over 120 patents, with over 60 prosecuted pro-se.
Research and Development
UC Berkeley
For nearly 20 years, Dr. Lavian has researched, studied, and lectured at U.C. Berkeley.
Dr. Lavian has served as an Industry Fellow and Lecturer at U.C. Berkeley’s Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR) Department and U.C. Berkeley Engineering’s Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology (SCET). He has taken part in U.C. Berkeley’s startup accelerator, SkyDeck, as principal investigator of the wireless RF signal startup company CRadar.Ai, and co-founder, CEO, and CTO of smartphone wireless telecommunicators service integrator, Aybell, previously known as VisuMenu Inc.
- U.C. Berkeley SkyDeck startups – advanced technology research, business, market, and implementation. Mobile wireless cloud network services; Wireless RF and Radar for AV, AWS/GCP cloud software.
- Conducted research projects in data centers (RAD Labs), telecommunication infrastructure (SAHARA), and wireless systems (ICEBERG).
- Acted as a scientific liaison between Nortel Research Lab and U.C. Berkeley.
- Studied network services, telecommunication systems and software, communications infrastructure, and data centers.
- Earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science specializing in communication and networking.
- Developed long-term technology for the enterprise market, integrating communication and computing technologies.
CRadar.Ai
He has served as the CTO and principal investigator of CRadar.Ai, a company whose technology improves wireless radio signal phase noise purity by about 100x. This clean wireless radio frequency signal enables a radar-based object detection system for autonomous vehicles. The startup’s high-accuracy imaging radar complements existing detection systems by sensing objects under poor weather and lighting conditions—fog, rain, snow, direct sun, total darkness—where conventional camera- and lidar-based autonomous driving systems often fail. CRadar.Ai incubated in U.C. Berkeley’s startup accelerator, SkyDeck.
Aybell
A part of UC Berkeley’s SkyDeck, Aybell is focused on creating a new way of connecting smartphone users to any company and service by digitizing interactive voice systems. As CEO, CTO, and co-founder of Aybell, Dr. Lavian developed a way to transform mobile wireless devices and smartphones into visual menu systems that enable consumers to receive faster customer service using mobile applications, social media platforms, chatbots, and browsers.
Dr. Lavian led the design and implementation of the company’s service architecture and the voice menu search engine. Aybell is the branding and marketing name of VisuMenu Inc., an advanced cloud telecommunications system that provides network communications integration with a service provider’s telephone system.
- Aybell transforms smartphones into visual menu systems, enabling users to interact with customer service platforms through a visual interface. It connects consumers to the appropriate call center agents.
- Architecture, design, and implementation of a cloud data center for connecting any smartphone user to any company and/or service by digitizing interactive voice systems and exposing through cloud-service APIs to other applications.
- The system has been deployed as a cloud networking and cloud computing service on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
Technologies include Data Science Analytics, Machine Learning (ML), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Statistical Learning (SL), with development of NLP libraries and modules.
VisuMenu Inc.
VisuMenu Inc. provides a visual search engine for automated phone menus from mobile wireless devices and smartphones. As co-founder and CTO of the company, Dr. Lavian led its software development and search engine design for IVR/PBX using Asterisk, SIP, and VoIP. VisuMenu’s systems are deployed as a front-end mobile device interacting with Web services. Its back end is based on cloud network communications, telecommunications, and cloud computing services via Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). VisuMenu Inc. has since been re-branded as Aybell.
Litigation and Testimony Experience
Dr. Lavian has been retained as an expert in over 70 cases. He has served as an expert on over 100 patents litigated and has analyzed over 200 patents. He has provided expert reports and testimony in over 80 depositions and has testified in court before judges and juries in multiple proceedings.
His cases have been before U.S. federal district courts across multiple jurisdictions, the USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) in inter partes review (IPR), covered business method (CBM), reexamination, and interference proceedings, the International Trade Commission (ITC) Section 337 investigations, the Canadian Federal Court, the Tax Court in Canada, a court in Malaysia, and arbitration proceedings.
The technology areas involved in his cases include routing, switching, and MPLS; VoIP, PSTN, and telephony; network security; wireless, cellular, and Bluetooth; internet and web technologies; streaming media and video; network management; and messaging and unified communications.
He has been retained by over 50 law firms and corporate clients including Apple, Google, Microsoft, Cisco, Juniper, Ericsson, Samsung, Amazon, Netflix, T-Mobile, Comcast, FedEx, Facebook, and Huawei.
For inquiries, contact Dr. Lavian at +1 (408) 209-9112 or via the contact page.
Frequently Asked Questions: About Dr. Lavian
What are Dr. Lavian’s academic credentials?
Dr. Lavian holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley specializing in network communications, an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Tel Aviv University, and a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Computer Science. He is an IEEE Senior Member and an ACM member.
How long has Dr. Lavian been at UC Berkeley?
Dr. Lavian spent nearly 20 years researching, studying, and lecturing at UC Berkeley, where he conducted research projects in data centers (RAD Labs), telecommunication infrastructure (SAHARA), and wireless systems (ICEBERG), and served as an industry fellow and lecturer at the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology (SCET).
How many cases has Dr. Lavian handled?
Dr. Lavian has been retained as an expert in over 70 cases. He has served as an expert on over 100 patents litigated and has analyzed over 200 patents. He has provided expert reports and testimony in over 80 depositions before U.S. federal district courts, the USPTO PTAB, the ITC, the Tax Court in Canada, and a court in Asia.
What companies has Dr. Lavian been retained in cases involving?
Dr. Lavian has been retained in cases involving Apple, Google, Microsoft, Samsung, Meta (Facebook), Amazon, Cisco Systems, AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Juniper Networks, Huawei, Arista Networks, Motorola, LG, Avaya, Netflix, LinkedIn, Ericsson, and others. He has been engaged by over 50 law firms including Fish & Richardson, Kirkland & Ellis, Gibson Dunn, Cooley, and Finnegan.
What are Dr. Lavian’s research accomplishments?
Dr. Lavian was a principal investigator for three DARPA projects and one US Air Force Research Lab project. He led the development of the first network resource-scheduling service for grid computing, the first demonstrated dynamic transatlantic allocation of 10Gbs Lambdas, and the first wire-speed active network device on commercial hardware.