Academic Credentials
  • Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Drexel University, 2022
  • M.S., Electrical Engineering, Drexel University, 2014
  • B.S., Electrical Engineering, Drexel University, 2014
Licenses & Certifications
  • Professional Engineer, New Jersey, #24GE06033400
  • Professional Engineer, New York, #109329
  • Google Data Analytics Professional Certificate
  • IBM - Introduction to Data Science
  • IBM Data Science Professional Certificate
  • Project Management Professional (PMP)
Professional Honors
  • Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation Scholarship Recipient
Professional Affiliations
  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) – Senior Member
  • IEEE Power and Energy Society – Senior Member
  • IEEE Young Professionals - Senior Member

Dr. Cruz is an electrical engineer with extensive experience in power and energy systems, control systems, data analytics, engineering management, and research and development. He specializes in the assessment and development of military technology, software products and platforms, and power and energy systems and components. At Exponent, he utilizes his expertise to provide clients with a variety of technical services, including technical litigation support for legal activities relating to patent infringement, patent validity, copyright, trade secret, ITC Section 337, class-action, and product liability issues; failure and accident analysis; military and commercial product development; power system modeling and simulation; and technical enablement.

Dr. Cruz has expertise in the conceptualization, development, test and evaluation, and maturation of innovative products, including identifying candidate minimum viable products (MVPs) and identifying development strategies to address technical gaps for maturation. Dr. Cruz can advise on development of products of different sizes and maturity levels, varying from implementation of novel algorithms to integration and orchestration of various technologically mature products into existing systems and frameworks. Additionally, Dr. Cruz is well-versed in the systems engineering process and project management approaches (e.g., Agile and Waterfall). This is enabled by his military research and development background, where he developed a variety of products leveraging his electrical engineering and expertise and software knowledge in C++, Java, Python, and MATLAB.

Dr. Cruz is also fluent in model-based design and systems engineering, including developing models for addressing engineering integration considerations such as system architecture restrictions, performance requirements, steady-state/dynamic/transient stability, load and usage expectations, fault tolerance, and reliability/redundancy. He is experienced in a range of industry Unified Modeling Language (UML) and Systems Modeling Language (SysML) capable tools, including MATLAB, Simulink, and CAMEO MagicDraw.

Prior to joining Exponent, Dr.Cruz worked as a research and development engineer and project manager at the Naval Surface Warfare Center Philadelphia Division. He led the prototype development of robust and autonomous power and energy systems to service unmanned Navy assets. He additionally supported various research endeavors in advanced power system stability and control, modeling and simulation of novel shipboard power systems/components, and test and evaluation of Navy systems.

Dr.Cruz received his Ph.D in Electrical Engineering at Drexel University. His research focused on the increased integration of DC power systems into AC power grids due to installations of modern technologies (e.g. renewables, energy storage, etc.), and the impact into existing power system analysis and operation tools. Specifically, he identified the convergence shortcomings of state estimators which use iterative numerical solvers and sequential approaches when applied to AC/DC power systems. To overcome these issues, Dr. Cruz developed a new approach to non-linear regression using holomorphic embedding for state estimation of AC-DC power systems.