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Pankaj Mehra is a Research Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The Ohio State University and CEO of Elephance Memory, a company he founded that develops software for disaggregated data center memory optimization.
He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and has extensive industry leadership experience including SVP/WW CTO at Fusion-io, VP/Senior Fellow roles at SanDisk and Western Digital, and VP positions at Samsung where he led SmartSSD development.
His research focuses on memory-semantic fabrics (CXL, UALink), Memory Objects abstraction for data-centric programming, and AI Super Devices (AISDs) for near-data processing in AI workloads. Key interests include optimizing memory systems for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), vector databases, and Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) algorithms.
His notable scientific awards include:
- Samsung R&D Award (2019) for SmartSSD development
- CES R&D Innovation Award (2021) for SmartSSD
Dr. Mehra founded HP Labs Russia and served as Chief Scientist until 2010. He is an active industry contributor to the Open Compute Project and DOE EMC3 initiatives, with scheduled presentations at the 2025 OCP Global Summit on composable memory systems and data-centric computing.
His entrepreneurial ventures include Elephance Memory, IntelliFabric, Whodini, and AwarenaaS, with publications spanning 3 books and over 100 papers and patents in memory technologies and distributed systems.
