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Biography
Dr. Jai Menon is IBM Research's leading authority on the design and architecture
of data storage systems, which enable enterprises and organizations to manage
their data reliably and efficiently.
A native of Kerala, India, Menon received a Bachelor of Technology degree in
Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India
in 1977. He earned Master of Science and Ph.D degrees in Computer Science from
Ohio State University in 1978 and 1981, respectively.
In 1982, Menon joined IBM Research in San Jose, Calif., where he became a pioneering
researcher and designer of data storage systems and RAID (Redundant Array of
Independent Disks) architectures. His technical innovations have resulted in
significant advancements in the architecture, algorithms and practical implementation
of storage and RAID technology in the industry, with impact on many IBM RAID
products. He is inventor/co-inventor on many ideas like distributed sparing,
cached RAIDs, fault-tolerant RAIDs, floating parity, parity paring, EVENODD
codes, and hierarchical RAIDS. He was technical co-leader of the first RAID
prototype in IBM (contemporaneous with the first RAID prototype in the industry),
and has been a leader in IBM's transition to and leadership in networked storage.
In 1997, after several technical management jobs, Menon became co-director of
the Storage Systems Institute, a virtual organization between IBM Research and
the Storage Systems Group aimed at speeding the incorporation of scientific
and technological advances into IBM storage systems products. He was named functional
manager, CS; Storage Systems, in April 2000. In May 2001, Jai was named IBM
Fellow, the company's most prestigious and highest technical honor.
An IEEE Fellow and member of the IBM Academy of Technology, Menon has received
numerous IBM technical awards, published 31 refereed papers and 46 technical
reports and is contributing author to three books on database and storage systems.
He also holds 42 U.S. Patents and has 20 additional patent applications on file
with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. In 2002, Menon received the 2002
W. Wallace McDowell Award from the IEEE for "Leading Contributions to the
Architecture and Design of Data Storage Systems and RAID Technology".
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