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Data Storage Institute (Singapore)
Vision	To be a vital node in a global community of knowledge generation and innovation, nurturing research talents and capabilities for world class Research & Development in next generation technologies.
Mission	To establish Singapore as an Research & Development centre of excellence in data storage technologies.
Established	Founded MTC in 1992; Renamed DSI in 1996
Executive Director	Prof Chong Tow Chong
Deputy Director	Dr Thomas Liew

The Data Storage Institute (DSI) is a research and development centre located in Singapore, where next-generation data storage technologies are being studied. The principal competences are in magnetic, optical, and network storage as well as system design and prototyping.

DSI was established in April 1996 through the expansion of the Magnetics Technology Centre (MTC) founded in June 1992 by the Agency for Science, Technology & Research, or A*STAR (then known as the National Science & Technology Board) and the National University of Singapore (NUS).

In a report published in 1999 by The Information Storage Industry Centre, University of California, San Diego, DSI was ranked among the top five storage Research & Development centres worldwide.

Awards & Accreditations

2006 National Technology Award ("Advanced micro motor technologies used in hard disk drive and miniaturized mechatronic systems")
2006 IES Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award ("Nanometer spacing measurement between head and media")
2005 INSIC Technical Achievement Award ("Ultra-low flying femto slider for extremely high density magnetic data storage")
2005 Tan Kah Kee Young Inventors' Commendation Award ("Nanocluster beam deposition technology for the synthesis of nanostructure materials")
2005 National Technology Award ("Ultra-low flying height technology at sub-3nm")
2004 Asia Wall Street Journal Young Inventors' Silver Award ("Laser Nanopatterning in the Optical Near-Field for High Density Data Storage")
2004 IES Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award ("Advanced Laser Microfabrication and Nanoengineering Technology")
2004 Technology Review (TR-100) World's Top 100 Innovators ("Magnetic Random Access Memory {MRAM}")
2004 National Technology Award ("Superlattice-like Rewriteable Phase Change Optical Disk")
2003 Singapore Innovation Award ("3.5 nm Flying Height Slider for Terabyte Capacity Data Storage")

DSI's Scientific Advisory Board

Appointed by the A*STAR, DSI's Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) provides timely review and international perspectives of DSI's technology roadmaps, and identify relevant research programmes and activities, to achieve DSI's research goals. The SAB also assesses the impact of DSI's scientific activities on both local and international fronts.

Dr Mark H Kryder (Chairperson) - Professor, Dept of ECE, Carnegie Mellon University, USA / Former CTO & Sr. VP, (Research), Seagate Technology

Dr John Best - Chief Technologist, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Inc, USA

Mr Hubert Yoshida - Vice President, Chief Technologist Officer, Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, USA

Prof Tetsuya Osaka - Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Japan

Dr Shigeo R Kubota - Senior Vice President, President of Core Technology Development Group,

Core Component Business Unit, Sony Corporation

Mr Paolo Cappelletti - Group Vice President, Non-Volatile Memory Technology Development, STMicroelectronics

Dr Alexopoulos Pantelis - Chairman and CEO, TDK Fujitsu Philippines Corporation

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