Elizabeth M. Rudnick has been providing technical support, code inspection, analysis, and reporting services in intellectual property litigation cases for communication electronics since 2005. She has carried out architectural exploration and machine learning software development for a neuromorphic processor chip. She was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, teaching courses on VLSI system design, digital system test, and microprocessor design and verification, and carrying out research in automatic test generation, design verification, built-in self-test, design for testability, fault diagnosis, and memory test. She worked at Motorola on simulation-based design verification of SIMD multiprocessors and for Advanced Micro Devices, developing software for gate arrays and FPGAs. She holds a B.S. degree in chemical engineering and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is co-author of the book Genetic Algorithms for VLSI Design, Layout and Test Automation (1999).