Paper Title: Hot Topics in Academic Flash and NVM Research

Paper Abstract: Every year, hundreds of researchers in academia push the frontier of new ideas in the field of NAND flash memory, non-volatile memories, and storage architectures. This year, we are presenting a summary of the top works and trends in academia. A committee consisting of both industrial and academic experts have selected three standout works that were published in the last year, based on a combination of the future potential of the work and its research area, the novelty of the work, and the relevance of the work to industry. This talk will briefly discuss the selected works, put them in the context of larger projects and topics that are being worked on actively at universities across the world, and provide additional resources and contacts for anyone interested in learning more about the works.

Paper Author: Saugata Ghose, Special Faculty Systems Scientist, Carnegie Mellon University

Author Bio: Saugata Ghose is a Systems Scientist in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. His research spans a wide range of topics in the area of memory and storage systems, including data-driven architectures, NAND flash reliability, processing-in-memory, GPU memories, and emerging memory technologies. He has published several highly-cited works in top-tier conference venues and journals (including multiple works on experimentally characterizing error sources in both 2D and 3D NAND flash memories), has won a best paper award for his work on NAND flash memory forensics, and has written book chapters on NAND flash memory reliability and on processing-in-memory. He serves as Flash Memory Summit's Academic Coordinator. He earned his MS and PhD in computer engineering from Cornell University, and dual BS degrees from the State University of New York Binghamton.