Fellow & Vice President, Architecture and Design
IBM

Dr. Mark Dean is presently an IBM Fellow & Vice President, Architecture and Design, in the Storage Systems Group. Dr. Dean is responsible for sustaining and enhancing SSG's technologies, methodologies and system functionality to support continued market share growth and customer satisfaction in IBM's storage systems business.

Prior to this Dr. Dean was IBM Fellow and Vice President of Systems in IBM Research. He was responsible for the research and application of systems technologies spanning circuits to operating environments.

From November 1997 thru January, 1999 Dr. Dean was responsible for the IBM Austin Research Laboratory in Austin, Texas. ARL research activities include high MIPS/milliwatt embedded processors, full system simulation, formal verification, design for manufacturability and system software optimizations. Throughout his 23 year career with IBM, Dr. Dean has held several engineering positions in the area of computer system hardware architecture and design. He has developed all types of computer systems, from embedded systems to supercomputers.

Dr. Dean received a BSEE degree from the University of Tennessee in 1979, a MSEE degree from Florida Atlantic University in 1982, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1992. He has papers published in the IEEE Computer Society Press, MIT Press, and IBM Technical Disclosure Bulletin.

Dr. Dean's most recent awards are: induction as a member of the National Academy of Engineering, IEEE Fellow, the Black Engineer of the Year Award, the NSBE Distinguished Engineer award, induction into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in Akron, OH and recipient of the Ronald H. Brown American Innovators Award in Washington, DC. Dr. Dean was appointed to IBM Fellow in 1995, IBM's highest technical honor. Only 55 out of 310,000 IBM employees have the level of IBM Fellow. Mark is also a member of the IBM Academy of Technology. Mark has received several academic and IBM awards, including thirteen Invention Achievement Awards and six Corporate Awards. He also has more than 30 patents or patents pending.