Dr. Ganping Ju currently is the Managing Technologist (Senior Director) at Fremont Media Research Center, Seagate Technology. His primary focus is to work with the team to develop HAMR technologies and extend Perpendicular Recording. He received his Bachelor’s degree from Peking University (1994) and Ph.D from Brown University (1999). He joined Seagate Research Center in Pittsburgh in 1999, has worked as Research Staff Member, Research Manager and Research Director, before moving to Seagate Fremont Media Research Center in 2009. He has been active in the data storage community, including serving as CAISS BOD from 2010-2011, 2018-present, and Board of Advisers in 2012. He has been active in IEEE Magnetics Society and ASTC industrial consortium.
