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Jian-Gang Zhu
Professor and Director
Carnegie Mellon University
Data Storage Systems Center
USA
Biography
Dr. Jian-Gang (Jimmy) Zhu, a Fellow of IEEE, is the ABB Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He is also the director of the Data Storage Systems Center, a world-leading research institution in hard drive technology. He also holds Professorship in the Department of Material Science and Engineering and the Department of Physics at CMU. He is also the co-director of the new SYSU-CMU Joint Institute of Engineering, a joint effort between Carnegie Mellon University and Sun Yat-sen University in China. He was the Cheung Kong Chair Professor in Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China from 2006-2008. He served on the editorial advisory board of Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials from 1998 to 2008. Dr. Zhu received his B.S. degree in physics from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China in 1982 and his Ph.D. in Physics from University of California at San Diego in 1989. Prior come to Carnegie Mellon in 1997, he had been a faculty member in the Department of Electrical Engineering at University of Minnesota from 1990-1996. Some of the awards that Dr. Zhu has received include the McKnight Land Grant Professorship from University of Minnesota in 1992, the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1993, the R&D Magazine Top 100 Invention Award in 1996, IEEE Magnetic Society Distinguished Lecturer in 2004, Carnegie Mellon University Outstanding Research Award in 2010, and most recently, IEEE Magnetic Society Achievement Award, the highest award of the IEEE Magnetic Society, in 2011. He also received Sigma Excellent in Teaching Award in 2012 He has authored and co-authored over 280 refereed papers in major international journals along with seven book chapters and has given over 80 invited papers at various major international conferences. He holds 18 U.S. patents.
Research Interest
Magnetic data storage,spintronics, magnetic RAM
