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Welcome to CAISS!
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The Chinese American Information Storage Society (CAISS) is a non-profit organization founded by the Chinese American professionals from the data storage industry in 1995. Our mission is to provide education and fellowship to facilitate members' career and professional development goals through conferences, seminars, and social activities.
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人才项目需求目录
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CAISS MRAM & MagSensor Seminar
Date: December 3rd, 2011, Saturday
Time: 1:30PM-5:00PM
Venue: Western Digital (recording media operation site)
Pacific Rim Conference Room
1710 Automation Pkwy, San Jose, CA 95131
To register for this free CAISS seminar, please follow link: http://caissmagsensor.eventbrite.com
To get more updated information on CAISS seminar, please visit http://www.caiss.org
Magnetism based innovations have provided tremendous opportunities for technology and business development in recent decades. In a world of constant technological innovation, what opportunities and challenges lie ahead for MRAM and Sensor industries? Throughout this seminar, invited industry experts will share their views and insights with audiences about technology advancements and future market opportunities in MRAM and Sensor industries. Attendees will also have the opportunity to interact with featured speakers and fellow industry members, facilitating conversations that can promote valuable exchanges of ideas and cooperation.
Seminar Agenda:
1:30pm - 2:00pm Sign-in and registration
2:00pm - 3:30pm Spin Torque MRAM: Physics and Implementation Issues by Dr. Bob Beach, MagIC
3:30pm - 5:00pm Magnetic Sensors and their Unique Applications by Dr. Hong Wan, mCube.
Speakers' Abstract and Biography:
Spin Torque MRAM: Physics and Implementation Issues by Dr. Bob Beach, MagIC
This talk will present the physics of Spin-Torque Transfer Magneto-Resistive RAM (STT-MRAM) in magnetic tunnel-junctions. It becomes difficult to scale down the bit cell for conventional field-based MRAM beyond the 90nm node, and the industry is keen to bring STT-MRAM into advanced products. A tutorial presentation of the physics behind tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) and STT will be followed by a consideration of various STT design options for the MRAM bit. These include the recent discovery of perpendicular magnetic anisotropy in thin CoFeB films adjacent to MgO, and the design of the TMR stack and physical bit dimensions for optimal electrical and magnetic performance. Bits in the STTMRAM array need to be engineered so they can be written and read repeatedly and reliably under multiple write cycles, down to the PPM level. Control of the distributions that determine these attributes is critical for STT-MRAM to be successful in the marketplace.
Bob Beach received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Illinois in 1992, where he studied the magnetic structure of rare-earth multilayers. He has spent the bulk of his career in the magnetic recording industry, mostly working on read head design, and was a member of the team at Hitachi that introduced the industy's first MgObased TMR recording head. Since 2007, he has been at MagIC Technologies, a division of TDK, working to develop Spin-Torque MRAM.
Magnetic Sensors and their Unique Applications by Dr. Hong Wan, mCube
Computers, communications and sensor technologies are converging to change the way we live, interact and conduct business. Sensors, as main interfaces between electric world and physical world, are starting to engage in our daily life and will be more so in the future. In this seminar, Dr. Hong Wan will present hardware/computer roadmaps, magnetic sensor technologies and their unique applications. Innovative magnetic sensor designs and challenges faced in the development and applications.
Dr. Hong Wan, Senior Director of Advanced Product Development of mCube Inc., is an innovative technology executive with extensive experiences in sensing and controls product developments. In her current role, she is leading advanced navigation product developments for mobile phone applications. Her responsibilities include business planning, product specifications, supplier management and R&D executions. With over a decade experiences in the industries covering Aerospace, Industry Control, Automotive and Consumer Electronics, Dr.Wan served as a technical manager in Eaton Innovation Center, Control and Solution Department, and various management roles in Honeywell in Semiconductor Sensors, personal navigation system and magnetic sensors departments. She has numerous technical publication and patents. Dr. Wan received her Ph.D and BS in Physics from Peking University, China.
CAISS Seminar: "General Principles of U.S. Corporate Taxation"
Date: November 5, 2011 (Saturday)
Time: 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Venue: Western Digital (recording media operation site)
Pacific Rim Conference Room
1710 Automation Pkwy, San Jose, CA 95131
Free admission with online registration: http://caisstaxseminar.eventbrite.com
What are the principles behind US taxation policies?
What tax related questions should one consider when starting a new business?
How does some business get an effective tax rate of only 5%?
If you are interested in finding out more on US corporate taxation, please join us in this upcoming free CAISS seminar where topics on taxation will be addressed.
Speaker's bio:
Yi Shepard, Managing Director of WTAS, has over 18 years of corporate and international tax experience serving clients from startups to large multinational enterprises. She has experience with a variety of industries, including alternative investments, software, semiconductor, biotechnology and other high technology disciplines.
Yi's experience includes domestic and international tax planning and compliance, including consolidated and multistate tax returns, cross-border transactions and intellectual property migration. She has also served as an outsource Tax Director for a multinational public company.
2011 海外华人精英浦东行
2011 海外华人精英浦东行将于12月28,29日在上海浦东举行。这将是浦东第四届海外华人精英行。为期两天的盛会将有"创新人才交流会", "创业项目恰谈会","海外华人社团战略合作恰谈"等多项活动,邀请约80名与中国中央"千人计划"层面持平的海外高层次人才参与。主办方将提供免费食宿和国际差旅费补贴。
NACSA and CAISS 代表浦东新区邀请各位报名参加"2011海外华人精英浦东行"。
有兴趣参加者请尽快将申请表通过电邮给CAISS : eileenyan5@gmail.com。
Click to download application form.
CASPA 20th Anniversary Conference & Dinner Banquet
VENUE: Santa Clara Convention Center
5001 Great America Pkwy., Santa Clara, CA 95054.
DATE: October 8, 2011 (Saturday)
12:00-17:30 Annual Conference (FREE Registration)
17:30-21:30 Dinner Banquet ($60) Buy Ticket
Click to download CASPA 20th Anniversary Conference flier.
Job opportunities at HGST
To check for details, please use the following link:
http://www.hitachigst.com/employment/index/san-jose
2011 Silicon Valley Technology Innovation & Entrepreneurship Forum 硅谷高創會 (SVIEF)
--- "海聚中美高端人才, 打造科技創新平台"
Highlights of the Forum:
- Opening keynote by former President Bill Clinton
- Special address by Speaker Pro Tempore of the California State Assembly, Fiona Ma
- Mayors' forum featuring over 20 mayors from the U.S. and China, discussing economic reform, environment, technology development, and exchange
- Economic forum
- "Win in Suzhou" start-up contest
- Professional forum to discuss cloud computing, internet service, information ecommerce, global financial information system development, software development and outsourcing, and wireless networks
- The introduction and exhibition of U.S. and Chinese technology projects
- Professional career opportunities with local and international businesses
Oct 21st - 23rd, 2011
Santa Clara Convention Center,
US Silicon Valley.
To register for the symposium, please use the link:
http://www.svief.org/english/
2011 Silicon-Valley Magnetic Symposium Program
Rising demand for data storage and hand-held devices has provided tremendous opportunities for technology and business development in hard-disk drive, solid-state drive, MRAM, and sensor industries. In a world of constant technological innovation, what opportunities and challenges lie ahead for HDD, SSD, MRAM, and Sensor industries? Throughout this conference, renowned industry experts will share their views and insights with audiences about technology advancements and future market opportunities in HDD, SSD, MRAM, and Sensor industries. Attendees will also have the opportunity to interact with featured speakers and fellow industry members, facilitating conversations that can promote valuable exchanges of ideas.
To register for the symposium, please use the link:
http://caissmagsymposium.eventbrite.com/
Co-host: CAISS and CASPA
Date: June 18th, 2011, Saturday
Time: 12:30PM-5:30PM
Venue: Cadence Design Systems
Auditorium Building 10
2655 Seely Avenue, San Jose, CA 95134
Format: Language in English
Cost: Free with on-line registration
Symposium Agenda
12:30 ~ 1:00 pm Sign-in and registration
1:00 ~ 1:15 pm Opening speech and VIP Introduction
HDD Session:
1:15 ~ 1:45 pm Keynote: "Progress and Outlook for HDD", Dr. Xiaodong Che, VP of HGST
1:45 ~ 2:15 pm Panel Discussion: Dr. Sining Mao, VP of WD; Dr. Herbert Lin, VP of WD; Dr. Currie Munce Jr, VP of HitachiGST; Mr. Tim Ding, VP of LAMD
MRAM Session:
2:15 ~ 2:45 pm Keynote: "Progress and Outlook for MRAM", Dr. Yiming Huai, VP of Avalanche
2:45 ~ 3:15 pm Panel Discussion: Prof. Xiufeng Han, CAS; Prof. Yiran Chen, Univ. of Pittsburgh
Mr. John Yu, Founding Partner and Managing Director, WestSummit Capital
3:15 ~ 3:30 pm Break
Sensor Session:
3:30 ~ 4:00 pm Keynote: "Magnetic BioSensor", Prof. Shan Wang, Stanford University
4:00 ~ 4:30 pm Panel Discussion: Dr. Hing Wong, Walden International VC; Dr. Sean Ding, CASPA; Dr. Kevin Shaw, CTO, Sensor Platforms
SSD Session:
4:30 ~ 4:50 pm "Market and application overview for NAND Flash", Mr. Yuping Chung, Forward Insights
4:50 ~ 5:10 pm "Will Hybrid SSD outperforms HDD", Mr. Thomas Su, Sr. Director of Link-A-Media
5:10 ~ 5:30 pm "Enterprise SSD applications, challenges and trends", Dr. Currie Munce, VP of HGST
5:30 pm Adjourn
6:00 pm Optional networking dinner (RSVP required)
Document for downloads:
2011 Silicon Valley Magnetic Symposium Program
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2011 Silicon-Valley LED Technology Summit Program
The energy inefficient, 100-year-old incandescent light bulbs are phasing out dramatically. The more stringent set on the energy-efficiency will require the more innovative technology for lighting at the entire industry. All those have been certainly boosted the market for LED lighting products and business. As an emerging industry, LED lighting provides the great business opportunities for LED enterprises.
Jointly organized by NACSA and CAISS, the "2011 Silicon-valley LED lighting Technical Summit" enables face-face discussions with the pioneers of LED industry and helps to explore the market opportunities and technology breakthrough including LED Chips, packages and thermal, Optic , Phosphor and driver.
Distinguished Panel List
- Richard Wimmer, CEO & Founder, Lellan, Inc, Professional Lighting Application
- Xiantao Yan, CTO and founder, LedEngin, LED optics, package and thermal
- Yiqun Li, CTO and founder, Intematix, Phosphor
- Jerry Zheng, VP of Technical Marketing, iWatt inc, LED driver
- Allen Lu, PhD., President, SEMI China, Overview of LED industry in China
Hot Topics
1) Challenges and opportunities: where they are? How should we focus on to get something started?
2) How to make affordable LED lamp at home? The current LED lamps are very expensive. Can they be reduced by 10X? What will drive the reduction?
3) Market opportunity: A look at the lighting landscape in China; is it too late?
4) Puzzled problems on the lighting design, light measurement and standards
Date: Saturday, April 23, 2011, 2:00PM-5:00PM
Venue: Parcific Rim Conference Room
Western Digital Corporation
1710 Automation Parkway
San Jose, CA 95131
Cost: Free
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2011 China ZhangJiaGang - US Silicion Valley High Level Talent Cooperation Commit
High level officials from City of Zhang Jia Gang will be in Silicon Valley hosting a business lunch on April 3rd, 2011 with NACSA and CAISS. They will meet with Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and high-tech professionals; introduce their culture-rich city, share information about business development opportunities, government support initiatives, favorable investment climate, and industry outlook in China. Please plan to join us. It is a great opportunity to meet and carry on direct dialogues with decision-making local officials, build up valuable relationship for securing future government funding, and get inspired.
Resumes and business proposals will be accepted. Please download business proposal template, application forms with following links. A formal 3 course lunch will be served during the event.
Co-host: CAISS and NACSA
Date: Sunday, April 3, 2011, 10:00am to 3:00pm
Cost: Free RSVP: Seating is limited. Please RSVP online today at
http://goo.gl/dWOkV
Date: Saturday, April 23, 2011, 2:00PM-5:00PM
Venue: Parcific Rim Conference Room
Western Digital Corporation
1710 Automation Parkway
San Jose, CA 95131
Cost: Free
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Seminar Title: Board Discussion with Shenzhen LED INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION
Time: Jan 8, 2011 (Saturday), 3:00PM-5:00PM
Location:
Western Digital (recording media operation site)
Pacific conference room
1710 Automation Pkwy
San Jose, CA 95131
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CAISS 16th Annual Conference Announcement
We are pleased to announce that the 16th CAISS annual conference is going to be held on Saturday, November 6th, 2010 at Milpitas Embassy Suite. Registration starts at 5:30pm and refreshment will be served.
Annual conference: 6pm-10pm, Saturday, 11/06/2010, at Embassy Suite Milpitas
Keynote Speech:
The Spin on Electronics ! - Science and Technology of spin currents in nano-materials and nano-devices
Stuart S. P. Parkin
IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, California, United States of America
Program:
5:30pm-6:45pm: Registration, poster session and networking
6:45pm-7:45pm: Dinner
7:45pm-8:00pm: Welcome remark, CAISS annual report
8:00pm-9:00pm: Keynote speech,
9:00pm-9:30pm: Award presentation, introduce CAISS 11 BOD
9:30pm-10:00pm: Prize drawing
Venue: 901 E Calaveras Blvd., Milpitas Silicon Valley , CA 95035 , (408) 876-3007
Registration:
Admission Fee: $50
Please send email to caiss@caiss.org to reserve a seat or register at http://www.caiss.org/regannual.php
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Seminar Title: What's happening in China and its implication to us
Distinguished Speaker: Hong Wang
Time: September 25, 2010 (Saturday), 4:30PM-6:00PM
Abstract:
China has been undergoing a historical change for the last 30 years. The change in China is deepening and accelerating. China is now re-defining the game in many aspects, which generates huge challenges and opportunities for all organizations and individuals - foreign companies, large SOEs, local companies, central and regional governments and especially for overseas Chinese professionals. I will share my observations from the last 7 years in China as an executive from a large global company on our lessons learned, the changes in our business strategy, opportunities and challenges for overseas Chinese professionals.
Dr. Hong Wang's Bio
Vice President & General Manager
Honeywell Technology Solutions, China
Hong is responsible for crafting & implementing a coherent technology strategy for Honeywell to capture the high growth opportunities provided by the dynamic AP market and to create a global competitive edge by developing a highly innovative and effective China based technology/innovation organization. In addition to building and managing global technology centers based in Shanghai, Beijing and other sites that cover the full range of research, development and engineering for both global and regional projects, he also leads Honeywell's effort in identify and explore new strategic market and translation of market needs and new technology into performance solutions for our customers. His team also works closely with corporate BD/Strategy organization to develop new business models for Honeywell in China. Hong has successfully developed a robust pipeline of projects to meet corporate's aggressive business growth target in the region and have developed a strong team with demonstrated application/product development successes.
Hong also leads Honeywell's technology organizations in China for external collaboration with local entities, including management of Universities programs and policy advice to government. He is appointed Science & Technology advisory councillor by Shanghai Municipality Government's S&T commission and senior advisor by Chongqing Reform & Development commission.
Hong joined Honeywell in 2003 as AP director of technology for the Specialty Materials business from Seagate Technology where he led product development for advanced magnetic recording heads. After obtaining B.S. degree in Physics from Peking University, he also earned Ph.D. in Physics from Michigan State University and MBA in General Management from University of Minnesota.
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CAISS is pleased to offer a seminar on flash memory technology in May 6th, 2010.
Seminar Title: Metal Nanocrystals for Multilevel Cell NAND Flash Memory With 100,000 Cycling Endurance
Distinguished Speaker: Dr. Jian Chen, Director of Device Technologies, Nanosys, Inc
Time: May 6th, 2010 (Thursday), 7:00PM-9:00PM
-- please reply to this email if you plan to come, we need headcount for preparing food
--- free admission with limited food and drink
Seminar Abstract: Metal Nanocrystals for Multilevel Cell NAND Flash Memory with 100,000 Cycling Endurance
As NAND flash memory continues further down-scaling below 30nm half pitch, factors including the large cell-to-cell capacitive coupling and reduction of coupling ratio pose serious challenges for existing technologies based on polysilicon floating gate. In addition, cycling endurance becomes worse for smaller devices sizes, especially for multilevel cells (MLC). Endurance is typically less than a few thousand cycles for 35nm-generation products making this and future
generation MLC devices unsuitable for solid-state drive (SSD) applications.
In this talk, we present a candidate to replace the poly-floating gate flash memory using colloidal metal nanocrystals (NCs) as charge storage elements combined with high-k blocking dielectric. The metal NCs, less 3nm in diameter, are synthesized via solution chemistry and can be spin-coated onto the tunnel oxide to form a highly uniform monolayer across wafer surfaces with a density of 3E12NCs/cm2 or higher. MOS capacitors fabricated with metal NCs and high-k blocking dielectric show that a program/erase window of 15V is obtained, sufficient for MLC operation, and endurance of 100,000 program/erase cycles. In each memory cell, charge is stored in tens of NCs, each isolated from its neighbors with insulating dielectric. This makes the cell immune to stress-induced defect created by program/erase cycles that only impact the NC in the direct vicinity of the defect.
Bio:
Dr. Jian Chen is the director of device technologies at Nanosys,
Inc. (www.nanosysinc.com) in Palo Alto, California. By using metal
and semiconductor nanocrystals, Dr. Chen and his colleagues have
been developing various applications including solid-state lighting,
flash memory, solar cells, and others. Prior to joining Nanosys,
Dr. Chen worked on developing ultra-thin magnetic multilayers for
Giant Magneto-Resistant (GMR) hard-drive read heads at Seagate
Technology. Dr. Chen received his Ph.D. degree in condensed matter
physics from the Ohio State University.
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CAISS is pleased to offer a seminar together with OCAHT on LED technology in March 10th, 2010.
Seminar Title: High Power White LEDs for Illumination: Technologies and Applications
Distinguished Speaker: Dr. Decai Sun, Sr. Manager of Product Development, Philips Lumileds
Time: March 10th, 2010 (Wednesday), 7:00PM-9:00PM
Seminar Abstract: High Power White LEDs for Illumination: Technologies and Applications
With the rapid progress made in high power white LED development in the areas of performance improvement and cost reduction, the adoption of the LEDs for illumination has accelerated over last few years. The replacement of low efficiency traditional light sources such as regular incandescent light bulbs and halogen lamps with high efficiency LED based lamps will help to save energy and reduce carbon emission, thus contribute to the fight of global warming. In this talk, a few key technologies of making high power White LEDs, the state of the art performances and their applications in illumination. will be covered. Challenges and opportunities of the white LEDs for solid state lighting will be discussed. Some white LED products and LED based lamps developed by Philips Lumileds and Philips Lighting will be presented.
About Distinguished Speaker: Dr. Decai Sun
Decai Sun received his Ph.D in Engineering Physics and Material Sciences from University of Virginia in 1994. After graduation, he worked in the world renowned Xerox PARC on semiconductor lasers and MEMS development as a member of the technical staff until 2000. He then joined a startup
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CAISS 2009 Annual Conferece on January 17, 2010 at Embassy Suite Milpitas. Keynote Speaker: Senior Vice President Richard Rutledge on data storage business and technology at Western Digital.
Richard E. Rutledge is a well-known industry veteran and long-time member of the Western Digital executive team, currently serving as senior vice president of marketing. His role focuses on driving consistent and profitable growth by aligning and optimizing the WD business model to market opportunities.
Prior to his current position, Mr. Rutledge served in a variety of vice president and general manager roles, producing business results across WD's desktop, notebook, enterprise, CE and retail segments. His career with WD crosses a wide variety of products lines, channels, regions and technologies.
Previous to WD, Rich worked for Computer Stop, a pioneering PC retailer and peripheral manufacturer from the PC era infancy. Rich holds BSEE and MBA degrees from UCLA.
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2009 Dinner Seminar Schedule:
January 22nd, 2009 (Thursday)
Dr. Steven R. Hetzler, IBM Fellow, Manager Storage Architecture Research
Tilte:
The Storage Chasm: Implications for the Future of HDD and Solid State Storage
March 19th, 2009 (Thursday)
Mr. Mark Geenen, President and CEO, Trendfocus
Tilte:
Implications of current economic downturn on digital data storage industry
April, 2009 (Thursday)
Professor Lambertus Hesselink, Professor at Stanford on optics and optical storage, as well as founder/CEO for WD's recent purchase -- MioNet
Tilte:
Nano-apertures and surface plasmons for use in nano photonics, with applications in both optical and magnetic data storage
July 23, 2009 (Thursday)
Dr. Jianming Fu, CTO in Sierra Solar Power, Inc.
Tilte:
Solar Cell Technologies Outlook and Business Landscape
October 23, 2009 (Thursday)
Tom Chang, President, CTI Consulting
Tilte:
MEMS Technology and Market in Mobile Device Applications
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2008 Annual meeting keynote speaker:
Charles Pope , Executive Vice President
Seagate Technology
Topic:Strategic Planning and Corporate Development
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2007 Annual meeting keynote speaker:
John F Coyne, President and CEO
Western Digital Corporation
Topic: Nanometers to Terabytes: Enabling the Digital Lifestyle
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