BILL LIN
`Curriculum Vitae
`Tel: 858.531.2441
`Email: billmbox@gmail.com
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`EDUCATION
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`Ph.D, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
`University of California, Berkeley, May 1991
`• Masters of Science, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
`University of California, Berkeley, May 1988
`• Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
`University of California, Berkeley, May 1985
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`PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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`1/1997 – present
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`2/1992 – 12/1996
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`AREAS OF EXPERTISE
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`University of California, San Diego
`Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
`Adjunct Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
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`IMEC, Leuven, Belgium
`Group Head, Systems Control and Communications Group
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`• All aspects of computer networking network security, and computer architecture problems,
`including the design of computer networks, data center architectures, wireless communications,
`heterogeneous multicore processors, and systems-on-chips.
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`PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
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`Served or serving as Editor on 3 ACM or IEEE journals, as General Chair on 4 ACM or
`IEEE conferences, on the Organizing or Steering Committees for 5 ACM or IEEE
`conferences, and on the Technical Program Committees of 44 ACM or IEEE
`conferences.
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`SELECTED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
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`• General Chair, ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications
`Systems (ANCS), 2010
`Chair of Steering Committee, ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and
`Communications Systems (ANCS), 2012-2017
`• Guest Editor, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), 2012-2013
`• General Co-Chair, ACM SIGMETRICS, 2015
`• Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Design Automation and Electronics Systems
`(TODAES), 2010-2015
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`Editorial Board, International Journal of Embedded Systems, 2003-present
`• General Chair, ACM/IEEE Symposium on Networks-on-Chips (NOCS), 2009
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`PUBLICATIONS
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`Published over 170 journal articles and conference papers in top-tier venues and publications.
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`SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
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`Sen Yang, Bill Lin, Jun Xu, “Safe Randomized Load-Balanced Switching by Diffusing Extra
`Load,” ACM SIGMETRICS International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of
`Computer Science, Irvine, CA, June 18-22, 2018.
`Sen Yang, Bill Lin, Paul Tune, Jun Xu, “A Simple Re-Sequencing Load-Balanced Switch based on
`Analytical Packet Reordering Bounds,” IEEE Conference on Computer Communications
`(INFOCOM), Atlanta, GA, May 1-4, 2017.
`• Chia-Wei Chang, Guanyao Huang, Bill Lin, Chen-Nee Chuah, “LEISURE: Load-Balanced
`Network-Wide Traffic Measurement and Monitor Placement,” IEEE Transactions on Parallel
`and Distributed Systems, vol. 26, no. 4 (April 2015), pp. 1059-1070.
`• Xiaodong Yu, Bill Lin, Michela Becchi, “Revisiting State Blow-Up: Automatically Building
`Augmented-FA While Preserving Functional Equivalence,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in
`Communications, 32(10): 1822-1833 (2014).
`• Hao Wang, Bill Lin, “Reservation-Based Packet Buffers with Deterministic Packet Departures,”
`IEEE Transactions Parallel Distributed Systems, 25(5): 1297-1305 (2014).
`• Weijun Ding, Jun (Jim) Xu, Jim Dai, Yang Song, Bill Lin, “Sprinklers: A Randomized Variable-
`Size Striping Approach to Reordering-Free Load-Balanced Switching,” ACM CoNEXT 2014.
`• Hao Wang, Haiquan (Chuck) Zhao, Bill Lin, and Jun (Jim) Xu, “Robust Pipelined Memory
`System with Worst Case Performance Guarantee,” IEEE Transactions on Computers, October
`2012.
`• Guanyao Huang, Chia-Wei Chang, Chen-Nee Chuah and Bill Lin, “Measurement-Aware Monitor
`Placement and Routing: A Joint Optimization Approach for Network-Wide Measurements,”
`IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, vol. 9, no. 1, March 2012, pp. 48-59.
`• Hao Wang, Haiquan Zhao, Bill Lin, and Jun Xu, “DRAM-based statistics counter array
`architecture with performance guarantee.” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 20, no.
`4 (2012): 1040-1053.
`• Rohit Sunkam Ramanujam, Bill Lin, “Randomized Throughput-Optimal Oblivious Routing for
`Torus Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Digital Library, publication date:
`November 29, 2011,
`• Nan Hua, Bill Lin, Jun Xu, Haiquan Zhao, “BRICK: A Novel Exact Active Statistics Counter
`Architecture,” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 19, no. 3, June 2011, pp. 670-682.
`• Chia-Wei Chang, Seungjoon Lee, Bill Lin, Jia Wang, “The Taming of the Shrew: Mitigating Low-
`Rate TCP Targeted Attack,” IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 7(1): 1-13
`(2010).
`• Bill Lin, Isaac Keslassy, “The Concurrent Matching Switch Architecture,” IEEE/ACM
`Transactions on Networking, vol. 18, no. 4, August 2010, pp. 1330-1343.
`• Bill Lin, Isaac Keslassy, “The Interleaved Matching Switch Architecture,” IEEE Transactions on
`Communications, vol. 57, no. 12, December 2009.
`Jerry C. Chou, Bill Lin, Subhabrata Sen, Oliver Spatscheck, “Proactive Surge Protection: A
`Defense Mechanism for Bandwidth-Based Attacks,” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking,
`17(6): 1711-1723 (2009).
`Jerry Chou, Bill Lin, “Coarse Circuit Switching by Default, Re-Routing Over Circuits for
`Adaptation,” Journal of Optical Networking, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 33-50, January 2009.
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`PATENTS
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`• Mitigating Low-Rate Denial-of-Service Attacks in Packet-Switched Networks. United States
`Patent 8,443,444. Issued in May 14, 2013.
`Systems and Methods for Proactive Surge Protection. United States Patent 7,860,004. Issued in
`December 28, 2010.
`• Method and Apparatus for Scan Block Caching. United States Patent 7,672,005. Issued in March
`2, 2010.
`• Design Environment and a Design Method for Hardware/Software Co-Design. United States
`Patent 5,870,588. Issued in February 9, 1999.
`System and Method for Generating a Hazard-Free Asynchronous Circuit. United States Patent
`5,748,487. Issued in May 5, 1998.
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`EXPERT WITNESS HISTORY
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` have served as an expert witness on 21 cases (most cases involved multiple patents in suit), of which I
`wrote expert reports or declarations for 14 cases, analyzed source code in 10 cases, was deposed 11 times,
`and testified at trial 2 times. The specific cases and services provided are as follows:
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`1. Vizio, Inc. v. LG Electronics, Inc. and LG Electronics USA Inc., Civil Action No. 09-cv-1481-
`BEL
`• Expert witness on behalf of Vizio, Inc.
`• Law firm: Jones Day.
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`Services provided: Provided expert report, analyzed source code.
`• Technologies: Digital TV.
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`2. Vizio Inc. v. LG Electronics, Inc. and LG Electronics USA Inc., In the Matter of CERTAIN
`FLAT PANEL DIGITAL TELEVISIONS AND COMPONENTS THEREOF, U.S.
`International Trade Commission Inv. No. 337-TA-733
`• Expert witness on behalf of Vizio, Inc.
`• Law firm: Jones Day.
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`Services provided: Provided expert report, analyzed source code.
`• Technologies: Digital TV.
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`3. Vizio Inc. v. Coby Electronics Corp., Curtis International Ltd., E&S International Enterprises,
`Inc., MStar Semiconductor, Inc., ON Corp US, Inc., Renesas Electronics Corporation, Japan,
`Renesas Electronics America, Inc., Sceptre, Inc., and Westinghouse Digital, LLC, In the Matter of
`CERTAIN DIGITAL TELEVISIONS AND COMPONENTS THEREOF, U.S. International
`Trade Commission Inv. No. 337-TA-789
`• Expert witness on behalf of Vizio, Inc.
`• Law firm: Jones Day.
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`Services provided: Provided expert reports, was deposed, analyzed source code.
`• Technologies: Digital TV.
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`4. Linex Technologies Inc. v. Hewlett-Packard Company, Apple Inc., Aruba Networks, Inc., Meru
`Networks, and Ruckus Wireless, In the Matter of CERTAIN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION
`DEVICES AND SYSTEMS, COMPONENTS THEREOF, AND PRODUCTS
`CONTAINING SAME, U.S. International Trade Commission Inv. No. 337-TA-775
`• Expert witness on behalf of Hewlett-Packard Company, Apple Inc., Aruba Networks,
`Inc., Meru Networks, and Ruckus Wireless
`• Law firms: Covington & Burling, K&L Gates, Morrison & Foerster, Lewis Roca &
`Rothgerber.
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`Services provided: Provided expert reports, was deposed, analyzed source code.
`• Technologies: WiFi networks.
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`5. MOSAID Technologies, Inc. v. Dell, Inc., Qualcomm Atheros, Inc., et al., Case No. 2:11-cv-
`00179-TJW
`• Expert witness on behalf of Qualcomm Atheros, Inc.
`• Law Firm: McDermott Will & Emory.
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`Services provided: Provided expert analysis.
`• Technologies: WiFi networks.
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`6. Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co. Ltd., et al. v. Top Victory Electronics (Taiwan) Co. Ltd., et al.,
`Civil Action No. 2:10-cv-260-JRG.
`• Expert witness on behalf of Vizio, Inc.
`• Law Firm: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
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`Services provided: Provided expert reports, analyzed source code.
`• Technologies: Digital TV.
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`7. United States International Trade Commission (USITC) Investigation Number: 337-TA-853 and
`Technology Properties Limited, LLC v. Kyocera Corporation and Kyocera Communciations, Inc.
`in the Northern District of California, Case No. 3:12-cv-03860-JSC
`• Expert witness on behalf of Kyocera Corporation and Kyocera Communciations.
`• Law firm: Morrison & Foerster.
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`Services provided: Provided expert analysis.
`• Technologies: Cell phones, microprocessors.
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`8. Netgear, Inc. v. Ruckus Wireless, Inc., Case No. 1:10-cv-00999-SLR / D. Del.
`• Expert witness on behalf of Ruckus Wireless, Inc.
`• Law firms: Lewis Roca & Rothgerber, Orrick.
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`Services provided: Provided expert report, analyzed source code, was deposed, and
`testified at trial.
`• Technologies: WiFi networks.
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`9. Sonics, Inc. v. Arteris, Inc., Case No. 11 CV-05311 SBA, and Arteris S.A.S. v. Sonics, Inc., Case
`No. C 12-00434 (WHA)
`• Expert witness on behalf of Arteris, Inc. and Arteris S.A.S.
`• Law firm: DLA Piper.
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`Services provided: Retained as an expert.
`• Technologies: Systems-on-Chips (SoCs).
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`10. Linex Technologies Inc. v. Hewlett-Packard Company, Apple Inc., Aruba Networks, Inc., Meru
`Networks, and Ruckus Wireless, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, C 13-00159
`CW
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`• Expert witness on behalf of Hewlett-Packard Company, Apple Inc., Aruba Networks,
`Inc., Meru Networks, and Ruckus Wireless
`• Law firms: Covington & Burling, Milbank, K&L Gates, Morrison & Foerster, Lewis
`Roca & Rothgerber.
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`Services provided: Provided expert reports, analyzed source code.
`• Technologies: WiFi networks.
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`11. Frontier Communications Corp. v. Google, C.A. No. 10-545 (D. Del)
`• Expert witness on behalf of Frontier Communications Corp.
`• Law firm: Steese, Evans & Frankel
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`Services provided: Provided expert analysis, wrote declarations, analyzed source code.
`• Technologies: Voice over IP.
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`12. U.S. Ethernet Innovations LLC v. Acer, Inc. et al., Case No. 10-cv-3724 (N.D. Cal.)
`• Expert witness on behalf of Qualcomm Atheros, Inc., Sigma Designs, Inc., and AT&T
`Services, Inc.
`• Law firms: Reed Smith LLP, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, and Vinson &
`Elkins LLP.
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`Services provided: Provided expert reports, was deposed, analyzed source code.
`• Technologies: Intelligent network interfaces, data center networks.
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`13. Inter Partes Review of a U.S. Patent.
`• Expert witness on behalf of Netgear, Inc. and Belkin International, Inc.
`• Law firm: Reed Smith LLP.
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`Services provided: Provided declaration for IPR petition.
`• Technologies: Wireless networks.
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`14. Inter Partes Review of U.S. Patents.
`• Expert witness on behalf of Arista Networks.
`• Law firm: Fish & Richardson.
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`Services provided: Provided declarations for IPR petitions, deposed 3 times.
`• Technologies: Network routers, data center networks.
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`15. Invalidity Expert Witness.
`• Expert witness on behalf of Intel Corp.
`• Law firm: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP.
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`Services provided: Provided expert analysis.
`• Technologies: WiFi networks, bluetooth networks.
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`16. Parthenon Unified Memory Architecture LLC v. HTC Corporation et al., Case No. 2:14-CV-690-
`JRG-RSP (E. D. Texas).
`• Expert witness on behalf of HTC Corporation and HTC America, Inc.
`• Law firm: Sidley Austin LLP.
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`Services provided: Retained as an expert.
`• Technologies: Memory architectures.
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`17. System Architecture Information Technology dba SAI Technology, Inc. v. Qualcomm Inc.
`• Expert witness on behalf of Qualcomm Inc.
`• Law firm: McDermott Will & Emory.
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`Services provided: Retained as an expert, analyzed source code, was deposed, and
`testified at trial.
`• Technologies: WiFi networks.
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`18. Invalidity Expert Witness.
`• Expert witness on behalf of Sandvine Corp.
`• Law firm: Erise IP.
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`Services provided: Provided declarations.
`• Technologies: Network monitoring and measurements.
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`19. Inter Partes Review of U.S. Patents.
`• Expert witness on behalf of Intel Corp., Cavium Inc., and Dell Inc.
`• Law firms: Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, Duane Morris LLP, Alston & Bird LLP.
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`Services provided: Provided declarations for IPR petitions, deposed 2 times.
`• Technologies: Intelligent network interfaces, data center networks.
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`20. Expert Witness.
`• Law firm: Covington & Burling.
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`Services provided: Retained as an expert.
`• Technologies: WiFi networks.
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`21. Qualcomm Inc. v. Apple Inc., Inv. No. 337-TA-1065 (ITC), and Civ. Action No. 3:17-cv-01375-
`JAH-MDD (S.D. Cal.)
`• Expert witness on behalf of Apple Inc. and Intel Corp.
`• Law firm: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP.
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`Services provided: Provided expert reports/declarations, was deposed.
`• Technologies: Wireless systems, computer architecture.
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