{{Short description|American computer scientist (1956–2022)}} {{Infobox person | name = Jaishankar Menon | birth_date = {{Birth date|1956|08|09}} | education = Indian Institute of Technology (B.S.) <br/> Ohio State University (Ph.D.) | occupation = Computer scientist and researcher }}

'''Jaishankar Menon''' (born August 9, 1956) is an Indian-American computer scientist and researcher.

== Life and career ==

Menon joined IBM's research team in San Jose, California, in 1982, where he developed RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) technology.

== Awards==

* IBM Fellow, 2001<ref>{{cite web |title=IBM Fellows 1963-Present |date=January 30, 2012 |url=http://www.ibm.com/ibm/ideasfromibm/us/ibm_fellows/directory/|publisher=IBM |accessdate=May 9, 2014}}</ref><ref name=ibmbio>{{cite web |title=Jai Menon, IBM Fellow, CTO and VP, Technical Strategy IBM Systems and Technology Group |url=http://www.almaden.ibm.com/institute/bio/biomenon.html |publisher=IBM |accessdate=May 9, 2014}}</ref> * IEEE Fellow<ref name=WallaceAward/> * Winner of the 2002 IEEE W. Wallace McDowell Award<ref name=WallaceAward>{{cite web |title=Jaishankar M. Menon: 2002 W. Wallace McDowell Award Recipient |url=http://www.computer.org/portal/web/awards/menon |work=IEEE Computer Society Awards| publisher=IEEE |accessdate=May 9, 2014}}</ref> * 2006 IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award<ref>{{cite web |title=2006 - Jaishankar Menon |url=http://www.ieee.org/about/awards/bios/johnson_info_recipients.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120803144111/http://www.ieee.org/about/awards/bios/johnson_info_recipients.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 3, 2012 |work=IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award Recipients |publisher=IEEE |accessdate=May 9, 2014}}</ref> * IBM Master Inventor<ref name=ibmbio/>

==External links== * [http://www.almaden.ibm.com/institute/bio/index.shtml?menon Profile]

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