Before founding InnoGrit, Dr. Zining Wu served as Chief Technology Officer of Marvell Technology Group, responsible for overseeing all technical aspects of the company including the company’s technical vision, strategic initiatives, directing R&D project execution, and future growth. Dr. Wu joined Marvell in 1999. During his tenure, Dr. Wu led the engineering team that delivered innovative multi-generation Hard Disk Drive (HDD) and solid-state drive (SSD) controllers with annual sales over a billion dollars. Under his leadership, Marvell launched multiple industry-record products, including the world’s first low-density parity-check (LDPC) code based SSD controller, which tripled the reliability of NAND flash; the first native PCIe SSD controller for modular scalability, raising the bar in data storage by delivering an unprecedented level of I/O performance; and the world’s first  NVRAM-powered PCIe SSD cache solution providing industry-leading performance for cloud computing data center. Dr. Wu also served as Vice President of Engineering for wireless communication SoCs, where his team delivered the industry’s best-in-class 802.11ac chips.

Dr. Wu holds over 280 U.S. patents, has published 8 technical papers and a book Coding and Iterative Detection for Magnetic Recording Channels, 2000.

Dr. Wu holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Tsinghua University, a master’s and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

Prior to InnoGrit, Mr. Lai was Senior Director of Engineering at Toshiba America responsible for the front-end architecture and logic design of the Enterprise PCIe SSD Controller. Previously, he was Senior Design Manager at Marvell Semiconductor responsible for the storage bridges and Host Bus Adaptor (HBA) shipping over 50 million products.  He was also the lead designer for Marvell’s first PCIe SSD controller, which was used in the first generation of Apple iBook with SSD.

Mr. Lai holds 3 U.S. patents and with 7 patent applications pending.

Mr. Lai holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in Applied Physics from Tsinghua University, and a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Rochester.

Dr. Chen has over 12 years of research and development experience in wireline communication and data storage system, with deep knowledge in high speed ethernet transceiver and low power SSD controller architect and design optimization. Prior to InnoGrit, Dr. Chen was Senior Staff Design Manager for data storage products at Marvell. He specializes in microarchitecture analysis, design, and physical implementation of advanced digital signal processing (DSP) and error correction coding (ECC) algorithms (such as LDPC and BCH) for data storage systems. Dr. Chen and his team successfully delivered the world’s first low power and low cost SSD controllers with advanced LDPC solutions, which extended the lifetime of TLC SSDs. In addition, as the key designer, Dr. Chen and his team successfully developed the 1st generation LDPC based HDD read/write controller, which was widely used by WD, Seagate, and Hitachi.

Dr. Chen holds more than 10 US patents and published more than 10 journal papers and conference papers. 

Dr. Chen holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Harbin Engineering University and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from University of Minnesota.

Prior to joining InnoGrit, Dr. Chen was Senior Director at Marvell leading SoC and IP R&D design. With more than 20 years of experience in large-scale integrated circuit design, Dr. Chen led the engineering R&D team that successfully launched more than 20 chips from graphic processors, network switching, data storage, multimedia, microcontrollers and Internet of Things. The IP and product portfolio generated more than $1 Billion revenue annually. Dr. Chen was also a key member of design and development for many first-generation chips, which were widely adopted by customers including Xbox Kinect, Apple MacBook Pro, Cree LED, Whirlpool smart refrigerator, and Xiaomi smart plug.  Perviously Dr. Chen worked at AMD and ATI.

Dr. Chen holds 16 US and Europe patents. 

Dr. Chen holds a bachelor’s degree in Physics from Peking University, a master’s degree in Physics from High Energy Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, a Master’s Degree in Physics from University of New York at Stony Brook, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA).