Prakash Kasiraj, Ph.D.
Former Senior Director, Recording Head Customer Engineering & Materials Analysis at Hitachi GST
Former Director, Advanced Recording Head Technology Development at Hitachi GST
Former Senior Manager, Recording Head Research Department at IBM Research
Mr. Prakash Kasiraj is a technical and executive leader with 32 years of experience in the field of hard disk drive technologies and products.
From 1984 to 1990 as an IBM Research Staff Member, he invented and developed magnetic recording component test and failure analysis technologies for IBM.
From 1992 to 2005 as a Manager and later Senior Manager, led Research teams that developed new magnetic material and component recording head device technologies for IBM and Hitachi GST.
From 2006 to 2011 as a Director and later Senior Director, led Product Development and Program Management teams in the US and Japan that overcame numerous engineering hurdles to introduce new recording head component device technologies into high-volume, high yielding hard disk drive products for Hitachi GST and WDC.
From 2012 to 2016 as a Senior Director, led teams that developed novel and advanced magnetic recording media technologies for Hitachi GST and WDC.
During his 32-year career, the cost per data bit of digital storage was reduced by over one million-fold, in large part due to the rapid and successful commercialization of new magnetic recording component technologies by hard disk drive companies such as IBM, Hitachi and WDC.
He holds a Ph.D. degree in Applied Physics from California Institute of Technology, a M.S. degree in Applied Physics from California Institute of Technology, a B.S. degree in Physics from Texas A&M and is co-author of 16 technical papers, 15 published disclosures and 24 issued patents.
During his career at IBM, he received three IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards and one IBM Corporate Award.
