About the Editors

Kiran Gunnam currently works as a Technologist at Storage Architecture Research Group of Western Digital Corporation. He was previously Director of Engineering at Violin Memory and also held R&D positions at Nvidia, Blackberry, LSI Corporation, Marvell Semiconductor, Schlumberger, and Intel. Dr. Gunnam is an expert in IC implementation of communications and signal processing systems. His PhD research contributed several key innovations in advanced error correction systems based on low-density parity- check codes (LDPC) and led to several industry designs. He has done extensive work on algorithms and integrated circuits for many applications (including IEEE 802.11n Wi-Fi, IEEE 802.16e WiMax, IEEE 802.3 10-GB, Holographic read channel, Hard-disk drive read channel, and Flash read channel).