Jian Chen

Chief Scientist at Harbinger Memory Consulting

Menlo Park, California, United States
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Jian Chen is a veteran memory technologist and inventor with over 30 years’ experience leading NOR, 2D and 3D NAND flash innovation across startups and Fortune 500 companies. As a serial builder of global teams and former SVP of 3D NAND at Western Digital, he has driven productization from fab ramp to systems architecture and ecosystem strategy. Holder of more than 150 US patents and a Google Scholar h-index near 60, his inventions (e.g., binary cache for MLC, GPW fast MLC write, WL air-gap) underpin more than ten generations of commercial NAND products. He blends deep device-physics insight with hands-on process integration, reliability engineering and vendor co-development, and has transitioned that expertise into advisory and chief scientist roles. Uncommonly for a silicon-focused leader, he’s been coding actively on GitHub since 2013, contributing Python automation to widely referenced community repos. Based in Menlo Park, Jian pairs academic rigor (PhD, UC Berkeley) with a practical track record of shipping high-volume memory technologies.
code9 years of coding experience
job24 years of employment as a software developer
bookDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
bookB.S. Electrical and Electronics Engineering, B.S. Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
languagesChinese, Japanese, English
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Github Skills (4)

python10
bash9
lang8
github5

Programming languages (5)

TypeScriptC#JavaJavaScriptAssembly

Github contributions (5)

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leachim6/hello-world

Nov 2016 - Jul 2018

Hello world in every computer language. Thanks to everyone who contributes to this, make sure to see contributing.md for contribution instructions!
Role in this project:
userFull-stack Developer
Contributions:21 commits, 13 PRs, 14 comments in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Jian primarily focused on enhancing the project's functionality related to listing "Hello World" programs. Their contributions included automating the language listing process by developing and refining Python scripts, updating the README to generate links to the program files. Additionally, the user updated the python script to ensure functionality using python3, and updated the links so users would be able to select languages, further enhancing the user experience. The user also removed deprecated code.
cppwindowsc-programminginstructionssystem-programming
thathexa/hello-world

Feb 2017 - Apr 2019

Hello world in every programming language. Thanks to everyone who contributes to this, make sure to see CONTRIBUTING.md for contribution instructions!
Contributions:22 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 2 months
instructionsjavascriptprogramming-language
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Jian Chen - Chief Scientist at Harbinger Memory Consulting