Jimmy Zhu
ABB Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Director, Data Storage Systems Center
Courtesy Appointments, Materials Science and Engineering, Physics
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 holds courtesy appointments in the Department of Material Science and Engineering and the Department of Physics. Zhu is the director of the Data Storage Systems Center (DSSC) and 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 at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China from 2006-2008. He served on the editorial advisory board of the Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials from 1998 to 2008.
Some awards Zhu has received include the McKnight Land Grant Professorship from the University of Minnesota in 1992, the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1993, the R&D Magazine Top 100 Invention Award in 1996, IEEE
Creating Pervasive AI with Remanence Computing
Education
1989 Ph.D., Physics, University of California, San Diego
1983 MS, Physics, University of California, San Diego
1982 BS, Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Affiliations
Media mentions
CMU College of Engineering
2023 Engineering Faculty Awards announced
The 2023 Engineering Faculty Awards highlight faculty members who have shown outstanding educational, research, and service efforts. Congratulations to all of this year’s awardees!
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Chen and Zhu research device security
ECE’s Vanessa Chen and Jimmy Zhu have been awarded a National Science Foundation grant to create robust defenses for Internet of Things devices.
IEEE Spectrum
Zhu supports microwave-assisted magnetic recording
ECE’s Jian-Gang (Jimmy) Zhu recently commented for IEEE Spectrum on the future of magnetic storage. The leading manufacturers of hard drives, Seagate Technology and Western Digital, are split on how to solve the longstanding debate over how to squeeze more data into a given area. “In my opinion, (microwave-assisted magnetic recording is) a nonargument."
CMU Engineering
Powerful storage, tiny space
Jimmy Zhu has created a method to store huge amounts of data on a compact hard disk drive.
Forbes
Zhu quoted on MAMR use enabling HDD growth for data centers
ECE’s Jimmy Zhu was quoted in Forbes on the use of MAMR technology for increasing HDD areal density as an alternative to HAMR.
CMU Engineering
The future of computer memory
The Data Systems Storage Center, in conjunction with the Departments of MSE and ECE recently hosted the 16th Annual IEEE Non-volatile Memory Technology Symposium (NVMTS) at Carnegie Mellon University.