Paper Title: Big Memory Software

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Paper Author: Charles Fan, Co-founder & CEO, MemVerge

Author Bio: Charles Fan is the co-founder and CEO of MemVerge, an early-stage startup building data infrastructure software on top of new persistent memory technologies. Prior to MemVerge, Charles was CTO of Cheetah Mobile, leading its technology teams in AI, big data and cloud. Before Cheetah, Charles was an SVP/GM at VMware, responsible for VMware’s storage and availability business unit. He led the team that built the HCI market leader Virtual SAN. Charles also worked at EMC and was the founder of EMC China R&D Center, having joined EMC via the acquisition of Rainfinity. He was a co-founder and CTO of Rainfinity and was responsible for its file virtualization and high availability products. Charles received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology, and his B.E. in Electrical Engineering from The Cooper Union.