Computer Science Experts, LLC
Investigations and expert testimony performed with obsessive diligence
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Why CSE?

We are highly-regarded scientists,
experienced in legal investigations and testimony,
collaborating as a team to deliver exceptional results.

Notable cases in which our experts have testified

California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA)
Pennsylvania Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance Control Act (WESCA)
Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA)
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Our Testifying Experts

Serge Egelman

Serge Egelman is the Research Director of the Usable Security and Privacy group at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), which is an independent research institute affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley. He is also Chief Scientist and co-founder of AppCensus, Inc., which is a startup that is commercializing his research by performing on-demand privacy analysis of mobile apps for developers, regulators, and watchdog groups. He conducts research to help people make more informed online privacy and security decisions, and is generally interested in consumer protection. This has included improvements to web browser security warnings, authentication on social networking websites, and most recently, privacy on mobile devices. Seven of his research publications have received awards at the ACM CHI conference, which is the top venue for human-computer interaction (HCI) research; his research on privacy on mobile platforms has received the Caspar Bowden Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies, the USENIX Security Distinguished Paper Award, the Spanish Data Protection Authority's Emilio Aced Personal Data Protection Research Award, the CNIL-INRIA Privacy Research Award, and the Carnegie Mellon University CyLab Distinguished Alumni Award; he has also testified before Congress. His research has been cited in numerous lawsuits and regulatory actions, as well as featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Wired, CNET, NBC, and CBS. He received his PhD from Carnegie Mellon University and has previously performed research at Xerox Parc, Microsoft, and NIST.

Bruce Schneier

Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist, called a “security guru” by the Economist. He is the New York Times best-selling author of 14 books -- ­including "A Hacker's Mind" -- ­as well as hundreds of articles, essays, and academic papers. His influential newsletter "Crypto-Gram" and blog "Schneier on Security" are read by over 250,000 people. Schneier is a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, a fellow at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and AccessNow, and an advisory board member of EPIC and VerifiedVoting.org. He is the Chief of Security Architecture at Inrupt, Inc.

Jonathan Hochman

Jonathan Hochman, PhD serves as consulting and testifying expert for cases related to Internet marketing, Internet security, privacy, e-commerce, website development, digital forensics, and search engine optimization (SEO), as well as pay-per-click (PPC), mobile, and digital advertising.

He has provided expert witness services since 2007 to plaintiffs and defendant our-opponents alike for disputes involving trademarks, patents, trade secrets, copyrights, contracts, defamation and online reputation, unfair competition, conspiracy and fraud.

Hochman has testified at 24 trials and 66 depositions and has served as an expert in hundreds of cases. He has served clients located in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Israel, Ukraine, and Romania.

Stuart Schechter

Stuart Schechter is researcher of computer security and privacy, human behavior, and ethics. His research helped debunk such previously-common practices such as mandatory (e.g., 90-day) password changes, password-complexity policies, security questions (e.g., favorite pet), and site-authentication images. His expertise is in privacy investigations, and he has built software to help track the flow of information from websites to third parties, as well as to analyze exported analytics data and configuration files (e.g., Google Tag Manager containers).

Stuart is currently an Associate in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. Previously, he was a lecturer at the University of California at Berkeley, a Researcher at Microsoft Research (2007-2016), and a member of the technical staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory (2004-2007). He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Harvard University In 2004, and his Bachelors of Science in Computer and Information Science (BSCIS) from The Ohio State University in 1996.