Full list of supervisors
DSI- Data Storage Institute
Surname
Given
Names
Department
Research Interests
Email Contact
An
Chengwu
OMS/Optoelectroni
cs and Laser
technology
AN_Chengwu@dsi.astar.edu.sg
Aung
Khin Mi Mi
Data Center
Technologies
Division
Cai
Kui
Mechatronics &
Recording Channel
Division, Data
Storage, digital
communication
Chan
Kheong
Sann
Chua
Eng Keong
MRC, SRf/Coding,
Signal Processing,
Channel Modelling,
Channel
Development
Non-Volatile
Memory
Physics and application of
optoelectronic and laser technology,
Raman spectroscopy, Optical
inspection
Storage Network Security, Data
Center Security, Fault Tolerant,
Distributed and High Performance
Storage
Coding Theory, Information Theory,
Communication Theory, Coding and
signal processing for data storage
systems, such as ultra-high density
magnetic recording systems and
non-volatile memories (NVM)
Iterative Codes (LDPC), Reed
Solomon codes, soft detectors,
Timing recovery, equalizer design.
CHUA_Eng_Keong@dsi
.a-star.edu.sg
Du
Chunling
Mechatronics and
Recording
Channel/Servo
Electronics
Ernult
Franck
Gerard
Spintronics, Media
& Interface
Fu
YuanHsing
Advanced Concepts
and
Nanotechnology
Division (ACN)
Non-volatile memory such as phase
change memory and reconfigurable
switch with applications in automobile and aerospace.
Optimal and robust control; Filtering
and estimation; Vibration modelling
and control; Motion control;
Advanced control for nanopositioning; Multidimensional
systems
MRAM, Magnetic tunnel junctions,
Magnetic materials, Process
development, Physical Vapor
Deposition, Reactive Ion Etching
Simulation and characterization of
light-matter interaction in nanometer scale for nanophotonics
applications.
Han
Guchang
Nu Phyu
Magnetic materials, Magnetic
characterization, nanofabrication &
nanoengineering, read head
technology, and microwave noise
measurements
Computational electromagnetic,
Numerical techniques, Modelling,
simulation, design and analysis of
permanent magnet motors
/actuators, Hard disk drive spindle
HAN_Guchang@dsi.astar.edu.sg
Hla
SMI/Spintronics,
Magnetic Head
Technology &
Nanodevice
Fabrication
Drive Systems and
Technologies
Division (DST)
Mi_Mi_AUNG@dsi.astar.edu.sg
CAI_Kui@dsi.astar.edu.sg
CHAN_Kheong_Sann@
dsi.a-star.edu.sg
DU_Chunling@dsi.astar.edu.sg
Franck_GE@dsi.astar.edu.sg
FU_Yuan_Hsing@dsi.astar.edu.sg
Hla_Nu_PHYU@dsi.astar.edu.sg
Jan 2015
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motor and EMI/EMC of
electromagnetic devices
Hu
Jiangfeng
Spintronics, Media
and Interface
Magnetic nanoparticle and
nanotechnology
HU_Jiang_Feng@dsi.astar.edu.sg
Hua
Wei
Spintronics, Media
and Interface
Air-flow simulation and mechanical
design
HUA_Wei@dsi.astar.edu.sg
JI
Rong
MSL
JI_Rong@dsi.astar.edu.sg
Jiang
Quan
Jiang
Yu
MRC/Electrical
Drives, Power
Electronics,
Electrical Machines
& Hard Disk Drive
Spindle Motors
NVM division, DSI
Surface Science, Material Analysis,
Thin film and Film interface Analysis,
Lubricant and Overcoat study for
hard disks
Electric Drive, Motion Control,
Power Electronics, DSP/FPGA
Embedded System, Electrical
Machines, Computer-aided Testing,
Electric Vehicle and Electromagnetic
Field
Scaling and Development of 3DRRAM device architectures. RRAM
and selector device design,
fabrication and characterization
Koh
Eng Kiat
Personal information management,
mobile computing, urban living
KOH_Eng_Kiat@dsi.astar.edu.sg
Krishnamurthy
Vivek
Vivek_K@dsi.astar.edu.sg
Krivitskiy
Leonid
Advanced Concept
Group
Optical interconnect technologies,
Silicon photonics, integrated
nanophotonic circuits,
semiconductor lasers, all-optical
switches/transistors, all-optical
memory.
Quantum Optics
Biophysics
Kuznetsov
Arseniy
ACN
Arseniy_K@dsi.astar.edu.sg
Lai
Yicheng
Nanophotonics and
Electronic-photonic
integration
Lee
Chee Wei
ACN
Nanophotonics, metamaterials,
nanoparticles, laser-matter
interaction
Ultra-fast lasers systems,
Active/Passive fiber devices, High
speed optical switches,
Nanophotonic integration
technology, Microwave photonics,
Optical systems design, Optical
metrology and instrumentations.
Nanolaser, microcavity laser,
semiconductor laser, III-V on Silicon,
photonics integration, integrated
optics
Lee
Hock Koon
Optical Materials
and System
Nonvolatile memory (phase change
memory)
Semiconductor lasers
Semiconductor fabrication process
LEE_Hock_Koon@dsi.a
-star.edu.sg
Data Center
Technologies
Division, Consumer
Electronics
Integrated
nanophotonics/nan
oplasmonics
JIANG_Quan@dsi.astar.edu.sg
JIANG_Yu@dsi.astar.edu.sg
Leonid_KRIVITSKIY@ds
i.a-star.edu.sg
LAI_Yicheng@dsi.astar.edu.sg
lee_chee_wei@dsi.astar.edu.sg
Jan 2015
Full list of supervisors
techniques
Leong
Siang Huei
Spintronics, Media
and Interface
Nanometrology and Instrumentation
LEONG_Siang_Huei@d
si.a-star.edu.sg
Li
Jianming
Optical Materials &
Systems Division
LI_Jianming@dsi.astar.edu.sg
Li
Minghua
Liu
Zhejie
OMS/Phase Change
memory &
materials, Optical
Storage
Mechatronics &
Recording Channel
Division
(1) All optical magnetic recording &
ultrafast magnetic recording, (2)
Phase change materials for phase
change memory (PCM) & optical
data storage, (3) fractal
mrasurement of material
microstructures & image processing
Novel phase change materials,
Optical data storage media, ZnO thin
film
LIU_Zhejie@dsi.astar.edu.sg
Lua
Yan Hwee,
Sunny
Spintronics, Media
and Interface
Recording Physics and
Micromagnetics
Electromagnetics, Micromotors ,
Actuators and Drives
Nanomagnetism, Spintronics, Nonvolatile memory, Nanofabrication
Lukiyanchuk
Boris
Advanced Concepts
Group/Theory of
Laser-matter
Interactions
Boris_L@dsi.astar.edu.sg
Ma
Yansheng
Piramanayaga
m
S.N.
Spintronics, Media,
& Interface
Division/NanoTribology
Spintronics, Media
& Interface Division
Laser-matter Interactions, Laser
Processing and Chemistry,
Plasmonics, Left-handed materials
(materials with negative refraction
index), Nanoclusters, Laser Cleaning
Tribology and head-disk interface of
hard disk drive, Lubricant on disk
surface, Contamination analysis and
control of hard disk drive
Magnetic Nanostructures,
Spintronics
Pu
Jing
Silicon Photonic device design,
fabrication and characterization.
PU_JIng@dsi.astar.edu.sg
Ren
Shuqin
REN_Shuqin@dsi.astar.edu.sg
RUOCCO
Sergio
DCT
Shakerzadeh
Maziar
Drive Systems and
Technologies
Division (DST)
Privacy preserved data asset
management for shared storage
system;
Adaptive QoS Management for
multi-tenanted storage system;
I/O monitoring and scheduling for
parallel file system
NVM, compilers, system software,
operating systems, real-time
systems, software engineering, realtime systems, power management.
Materials structure-properties
correlation, Heat assisted magnetic
recording, Mechanical properties of
thin and ultrathin films, Phase
Transformations in Solids, Physics of
physical vapor deposition (PVD) and
Advanced Concept
and
Nanotechnology
Division (ACN)
Data Center
Technologies
LI_Minghua@dsi.astar.edu.sg
Sunny_Lua@dsi.astar.edu.sg
MA_Yansheng@dsi.astar.edu.sg
Prem_SN@dsi.astar.edu.sg
Sergio_RUOCCO@dsi.a
-star.edu.sg
Maziar_S@dsi.astar.edu.sg
Jan 2015
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chemical vapor deposition (CVD)
techniques, Carbon thin films and
nanostructures, Plasma processing
for surface modification of materials
Shi
Jianzhong
Spintronics, Media
& Interface Division,
Data Storage
Optical Materials &
Systems Division
Condensed matters, thin film
technology
SHI_Jianzhong@dsi.astar.edu.sg
Song
Wendong
Thin films and functional materials
for data storage
SONG_Wendong@dsi.
a-star.edu.sg
Tan
Seng Ghee
Advanced Concepts
Group Division
Nanoscale electronics, physics,
spintronics, single-electronics
TAN_Seng_Ghee@dsi.
a-star.edu.sg
Tran
Michael
STT-MRAM, spintronics
Michael_TRAN@dsi.astar.edu.sg
Venkatakrishn
an
Venkatara
manan
STT-MRAM (Nonvolatile Memory
Division)
MRC
Venka_V@dsi.astar.edu.sg
Vienne
Guillaume
Advanced Concepts
Group, ACN
Wang
Weijie
Non-Volatile
Memory
Wang
Yonghong
Wang
Qian
Data Center
Technologies
Division
Nanophotonics and
Electronicsphotonics
Integration
Nonlinear optimal control for HDD
servo, Servo for Perpendicular
recording
• Nanophotonics
• Optical materials &
nanofabrication
• Optical modeling (analytical, FDTD)
• Ultrafast lasers
• Laser-matter interaction
• Laser processing
• Waveguides
• Non-linear optics
• Quantum optics
• Fiber optics
Microelectronics; Non-Volatile
Memory; Phase Change Materials;
Memory Structures and Processes;
Nano-Characterization; Laser-matter
interaction;
Storage System, File System,CE Data
Storage and Application
WANG_Qian@dsi.astar.edu.sg
Wei
Qingsong
Data Center
Technologies
Xi
Weiya
Data Center
Technologies
Nanophotonics; Photonic
Integration; Plasmonics; Photonics
Modeling and Simulation; Fiber
Optics; Liquid Crystal Optics and
Devices; Optical Interconnection;
High density data storage; Optical
Sensing;
Data Center Technologies,
Distributed Storage System, Cloud
Storage, Non-volatile Memory
Technologies, File System, Memory
Management.
Storage system failure and
reliability, file systems, data
management and allocation,
performance optimization and green
storage system.
Guillaume_GV@dsi.astar.edu.sg
WANG_Weijie@dsi.astar.edu.sg
WANG_Yonghong@dsi
.a-star.edu.sg
WEI_Qingsong@dsi.astar.edu.sg
XI_Weiya@dsi.astar.edu.sg
Jan 2015
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Xu
Baoxi
OMS/Photonics,
Hybrid Data
Storage, Laser
Physics &
Technology
Optical Materials &
Systems
Xu
Xuewu
Yang
Jiaping
Ying
Ji-Feng
Yu
Shengkai
Spintronics, Media
& Interface Division,
Data Storage
Yuan
Zhimin
Spintronics, Media
& Interface Division
Zhang
Mingsheng
Zhang
Qide
Head disk interface
/Tribology,
Microelectromechanical System
& Micromagnetic
Device
MRC/Fluid
Mechanics
Zhou
Tiejun
Spintronics, Media
& Interface Division,
Data Storage
Zhu
Yongqing
Data Center
Technologies
Mechatronics &
Recording Channel
Division
Materials Science
Lab
High density and high speed hybrid
data storage, Optical data storage,
Photonics, Electro-optics, Nonlinear
optics
XU_Baoxi@dsi.astar.edu.sg
3D display; Holographic display;
Computer-generated holography;
Spatial light modulator for
holography; Holographic memory;
Functional crystal materials and
Lasers
1. MEMS
2. Multi-scale and multi-physics
modelling
Materials characterization
XU_Xuewu@dsi.astar.edu.sg
Nanotribology, Computational
Mechanics,
Structural Dynamics, Head-disk
interface
of hard disk drive, Smart Materials
and
Structures
Magnetic Recording System, Nanometrology & Instrumentation,
Recording Physics & Micromagnetic
Simulation
Nanotribology & tribology in head
disk interface, MEMS and their
application for data storage,
Micromagnetics and spintronics
YU_Shengkai@dsi.astar.edu.sg
Airflow, flow-induced vibration, and
particle trajectories of disk drives,
Fluid bearings, spindle motor and
rotor dynamics, Computational fluid
dynamics, heat transfer, vibration
analysis
Energy assisted recording;
nanostructured
magnetic/semiconductor
materials for data storage,
spintronics,
biological applications; electrically
controlled magnetism in
nanostructured
ferromagnetic/multiferroric
composites
• Cloud storage and cloud
computing, data management,
metadata index and search;
• High-performance storage system,
parallel and distributed system, data
ZHANG_Qide@dsi.astar.edu.sg
YANG_Jiaping@dsi.astar.edu.sg
YING_Ji_Feng@dsi.astar.edu.sg
YUAN_Zhimin@dsi.astar.edu.sg
ZHANG_Mingsheng@d
si.a-star.edu.sg
ZHOU_Tiejun@dsi.astar.edu.sg
ZHU_Yongqing@dsi.astar.edu.sg
Jan 2015
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placement and distribution;
• Optical access networks, resource
allocation, scheduling, QoS, and load
balancing.
Jan 2015