Bert Schiettecatte

Bert Schiettecatte is a computer scientist and software and hardware engineer, with over 30 years of industry experience. He previously founded Percussa, a succesful audio consumer electronics company, and a proprietary trading startup in crypto and futures (CME) markets. He holds a MSc/CS degree from VUB (summa cum laude) and an MA/MST degree from Stanford University's CCRMA.

Areas of Expertise

Audio processing software, video processing software, audio processing hardware, audio signal processing. Audio technology, music technology. Audio forensic analysis and Video forensic analysis.

Wireless devices, wireless protocols, wireless sensor systems, consumer electronics, device firmware, industrial control software.

Desktop software, embedded software, server software, open source software, linux kernel. Computer forensic analysis.

Proprietary trading systems, high-frequency trading (HFT) technology. Crypto and futures (CME) markets.

Types of Cases

Intellectual property litigation matters, including patent litigation and trade secret misappropriation matters. Breach of contract, breach of warranty, personal injury and other matters.

Industry Experience

  • 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

Teaching

As a teaching assistant, Bert Schiettecatte gained experience explaining complex topics in information theory and digital signal processing to graduate students at Leuven Catholic University (KUL) and Brussels Free University (VUB).

Bert Schiettecatte - Technical Expert Witness

CV and Contact Info

Download curriculum vitae (CV) including experience as a consulting and testifying expert as well as tech due diligence experience.

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

Stanford University VUB

Publications

  • Bert Schiettecatte, 2024, August. How Memory Usage Patterns Can Derail Real-time Performance. In Interrupt Blog by Memfault.
  • 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.

Awards and Memberships

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. He is a member of the IEEE, the IEEE Computer Society, and is an associate member of the AES.