Metal Expert Witnesses

Engineering, Metallurgy - Failure Analysis, Accident Reconstruction, Slip trip & fall, Trip & Fall, Products Liability, Human Factors, Intellectual Property, Forensic Science, Fire, Equipment & Machinery, Electricity, Biomechanics, Premises Liability

Jahan Rasty, PhD, PE, MBA is a tenured full professor of Mechanical Engineering at Texas Tech University (since 1988) where he also serves as the Director of newly established post-graduate Forensic Engineering Certificate Program, as well as the director of Materials Performance Characterization and Failure Analysis Laboratory. Dr. Rasty is also the founding president of Real-World Forensic Engineering, LLC, which is a boutique-style engineering consulting firm. He is an experienced engineering expert and has successfully testified in more than 250 cases and has conducted over 1,000 engineering investigations in the areas of consumer products and industrial machinery failures involving design, manufacturing and marketing defect issues. Professor Rasty is a licensed professional engineer in the state of Texas, and holds various forensic certifications in the fields of fire and explosion investigation (CFEI, CFII), as well as vehicle Crash Data Retrieval (CDR). He received his BS,...

Santa Monica, California

Neurology, Technology - ADHD, Parkinson's Disease, Alzheimers, EEG, fMRI, Artificial Intelligence, Intellectual Property, neuroscience , neurology, psychiatry, signal processing, brain injury, MRI, metal , manganese, mining, childhood developmental disorders, Explainable AI, genetics, radiology

Academic Appointments University College London (2023-) Senior Lecturer Queen Square Institute for Neurology IST SMST (2016-2022) Assistant Professor Modeling and Simulation, Computer Science University of California, Los Angeles (2015-2022) Assistant Research Professor, Researcher Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Medicine Education Johns Hopkins University B.S. Biomedical Engineering, Mathematics Concentration University of Pennsylvania M.S. Bioengineering, Summa Cum Laude University of California, Los Angeles Ph.D. Neuroengineering, 1st Person to Achieve High Pass+ on Graduate Written Qualifying Exam Teaching UCLA Neuroimaging Affinity Course (2016-2022) Graduate course in advanced neuroimaging analysis methods, coordinated by Prof. Jesse Rissman; guest lecture on topics related to machine learning, deep learning, and interpreting decoding models for neuroimaging analysis IST SMST (2016-2022) Brain Inspired AI: (formerly called Modeling Neurona...