Pankaj Mehra

Pankaj Mehra is SVP and CTO at Fusion-io, Inc, the company that accelerates data center workloads using flash memory technology. He was previously SVP and CTO at Whodini, Inc, a company he founded in 2010. Prior to that, he was Distinguished Technologist at HP Labs, and founding member of Labs Russia. At HP, he created the Taxonom.com information service, and played a leading role in creating NonStop Advanced Architecture (2004), Persistent Memory (2003), and Integrated Archive Platform (2005). He has served as Chairman of InfiniBand Trade Association's Management Working Group (2001) and the CTO of Intellifabric Inc (2002). Pankaj designed major cluster systems around Windows NT that were (i) awarded the Terabyte Sort trophy by Jim Gray (1998), and (ii) created TPC-C cluster performance records (1997). Pankaj has in the past been: a visitor at Stanford University's Logic Group; adjunct faculty at University of California and Wright State University; a faculty visitor to IBM Research; Visiting and regular faculty at IIT Delhi CS&E Department; and Computer Scientist at NASA Ames. His thesis work at Illinois about automated learning of strategies was published as a book by World Scientific in 1995; an edited collection about theory of neural networks, by IEEE in 1992; and an introductory book on storage, data and information systems, by HP Press in 2006. Pankaj guest edited IEEE Internet Computing magazine's special issues in Global Deployment of Data Centers and Cloud Computing, and served on the magazine's editorial board until 2013.