Advisors
Dr. Tal Lavian, Ph.D
Dr. Tal Lavian is UC Berkeley CET Industry Fellow and Lecturer, College of Engineering. He is a scientist, inventor and educator in the areas of computer science and electrical engineering related to communications and Internet technologies. He has over 20 years of experience, including Technical Chair of the Patent Committee for Nortel Networks’ EDN, Principal Investigator for DARPA and visiting scientist at UC Berkeley’s RAD Lab. He is technical advisor for patent litigation, evaluating technology patent infringement. He has advised companies on building IP portfolios for hundreds of invention ideas and holds over 40 Issued Patents and Pending Patent Applications. He co-authored more than 25 scientific publications, journal articles, and peer-reviewed papers
For more information, please e-mail him at tlavian[at]Innovations-IP.com
Shmuel Silverman
Shmuel is a Multi disciplinary R&D leader with 20+ year career as an entrepreneur and innovator in business and technology. He has a track record in building and restructuring R&D organizations with design centers distributed worldwide. Shmuel co-founded a successful start-up in medical administration software and led many cutting edge technology program realizations from early idea inception to market success. He is a strong team builder with expertise in cross industry collaboration, generating change, and creating new businesses.
Shmuel is intuitive decision maker with broad and current knowledge in technology and marketing strategy. He created new sub vertical market adding $200M SAM (20%) for Xilinx to lead the wireless vertical market team in a declining base station industry. He was instrumental in expanding business opportunities by $1B across 5 years as a Director in Motorola, orchestrated the creation and execution of a broadband business strategy and roadmap.
Shmuel played a key role in changing Cellular Networks, after 3 years of intense development, led over 120 engineers to demonstrate the first VoIP end-to-end cellular network, supporting five different air interfaces and video conferencing, on a voice-switching all-IP network in Geneva Telecom in 1999. The results of this technology breakthrough are being realized by all major 3G and 4G cellular standards, including EvDO to WCDMA, WiMAX and LTE.
Shmuel is an inventor of seven issued patents (and several pending) valued in multi million dollars across wide range of technologies including software, radio networks and systems architectures, and inked circuit based (nanotechnology inks) security solutions.
Dr. Jitesh H. Panchal, Ph.D
Dr. Jitesh H Panchal is an Assistant Professor in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Washington State University. He received his MS and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, and his BTech in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati. He is a recipient of the university silver medal from IIT Guwahati. His research interests are in the field of engineering systems design. Specifically, his current research focus is on a) harnessing collective intelligence in systems realization, and b) methodologies and computational tools for the integrated design of products and materials. He has co-authored a book on the integrated design of products and materials. He has published over 45 articles in international journals, conferences, and edited books.
