Audio Signal Processing Software & Hardware Expert Witness

Bert Schiettecatte, MSc/CS, MA/MST

Consulting and Testifying Expert, Expert Witness, Senior Software and Hardware Engineer, Audio Digital Signal Processing (DSP) Specialist, Computer Scientist

Based in Los Angeles, CA

Email expert@noisetron.com | Phone (650)-600-1375

Download curriculum vitae (CV) including intellectual property litigation and tech due diligence experience.

Career Highlights

Bert holds a Master in Computer Science from Brussels Free University (VUB, summa cum laude) and a Master of Arts in Music, Science and Technology from Stanford University's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA).

Bert previously worked as a PhD researcher at Leuven Catholic University (KUL) and Brussels Free University (VUB), publishing papers on audio signal processing and human-computer interaction research topics.

Bert received the Qwartz Max Mathews Award for inventing AudioCubes, a tangible user interface system. Bert previously founded Percussa, a pro-audio and music technology company, for which he designed multiple successful products, including AudioCubes.

Bert is a fellow of the Belgian-American Educational Foundation (BAEF), a honorary Fullbright fellow, and is a recipient of the Audio Engineering Society (AES) Educational Foundation Grant.

Bert's work is well-known internationally within the pro-audio industry and human-computer interaction research community.

Bert has over 20 years of software and hardware engineering experience, focusing his career on music and audio digital signal processing (DSP) technology, and is one of the founders of Noisetron LLC, through which he provides consulting and expert witness services and helps clients with their projects.

Bert speaks English, Dutch and French.

Areas of Expertise

Software Source Code Review
Software Source Code Analysis
Software Source Code Comparison

Audio digital signal processing (DSP)
Audio software and hardware design
Electronic Musical Instruments and Music technology
Communication protocols in Music Technology (MIDI, OSC, ...)
Audio and video synchronization
Audio Recording and Playback Software and Hardware

Real-time systems
Embedded systems (ARM Cortex-M and Cortex-A CPUs, ...)
Programmable Logic Controls (PLCs)
Bare metal firmware
Multi-threading and locking
Lock-free programming
Linux kernel and drivers
USB HID and USB Audio

Computer architecture and processors
High-level and low-level programming languages (C, C++, java, php, perl, ...)
Desktop, Server and Embedded Operating systems (Linux, Windows, Mac OSX ...)
Smart Devices, Speakers and Internet of Things (IoT)
Wireless devices and protocols
Hardware user input devices and sensors

Memory managment and custom allocators
Video processing and computer vision (including frameworks like Media Foundation)
Computer graphics (including GPUs and OpenGL programming)
Graphics frameworks (e.g. JUCE)

Schematics and PCB layout
Computer Numeric Control (CNC) and milling machines
CAD and 3D modeling

Relational Databases (MySQL, Postgres, ...)
Network programming, protocols and APIs (UDP, TCP/IP, REST ...)
Exchange market data feeds (CME, ...)
Low-latency exchange connectivity (Rithmic, ...)
Low-latency data and signal processing
Algorithmic trading
Exchange order types

Data Structures and Algorithms
Software design and Architecture
Object-Oriented Programming
Lean/Agile Software development
Requirements engineering
Component-based development

Recent Projects

Developed real-time computer vision software controlling audio DSP algorithms
Developed algorithmic trading framework and low latency exchange connectivity for trading
Developed GPU accelerated data visualisation tool in C++ using OpenGL to analyze very large exchange market data sets
Developed audio DSP modules for audio synthesis engine
Developed modular synthesis engine
Developed Linux based multichannel audio DSP platform
Developed wireless protocol and input devices for tangible user interface system

Publications

Bert Schiettecatte and Jean Vanderdonckt. 2008. AudioCubes: a distributed cube tangible interface based on interaction range for sound design. In Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Tangible and embedded interaction (TEI '08). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 3–10.
Schiettecatte, B., 2004, April. Interaction design for electronic musical interfaces. In CHI'04 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1549-1549).
Schiettecatte, B., Nackaerts, A. and De Moor, B., 2003. Real-Time Acoustics Simulation using Mesh-Tracing. In ICMC.
Nackaerts, A., Schiettecatte, B. and De Moor, B., 2003. Non-linear guitar body models. In ICMC.