Jiadong(David) was born in 1967 in Shannxi, China . He received his M.S. and
B.S. in Dept. of Thermal engineering at Tsinghua University, Beijing China in
Jun. 1992 and Jun. 1985. Jiadong entered Univ. of
California, San Diego(UCSD) in Fall, 1998. At present, he is pursuing his
Ph.D. degree in Engineering Sciences
(Mechanical Engineering) at the CMRR
at UCSD.
David's research field is fluid mechanics of the head/disk interface.
Currently his research interest includes slider air bearing simulation, design,
and optimization. The flying height sensitivity of pico and femto sliders on
air bearing contour design, operating conditions and manufacturing tolerances
was studied numerically using a Monte Carlo analysis. In the study of
optimization of slider air bearing contour, the genetic algorithm and the
subregion approach are implemented with a finite element based air bearing
simulator. Optimization results obtained for the designs with the target flying
heights of 7nm, 5nm and 3.5nm. Currently research work includes slider dynamics
and optimization.