Garth Gibson is Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Panasas Inc. (www.panasas.com) and a professor of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University.

Gibson received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1991. While at Berkeley he did the groundwork research and co-wrote the seminal paper on RAID, then Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks, and now a checklist feature throughout storage industry products. Joining the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in 1991, Gibson founded the Parallel Data Laboratory (www.pdl.cmu.edu), one of the premier academic storage system research lab; founded the Network-Attached Storage Device (NASD) working group of the National Storage Industry Consortium (NSIC); and led storage systems research in the Data Storage Systems Center (DSSC), one of the largest academic magnetic storage technology research labs. Gibson participates in a variety of academic and industrial professional organizations including ongoing roles in the technical council of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) and the steering committee of USENIX's File and Storage Technology (FAST) conference.

ANSI T10's emerging standard for Object-based Storage Devices (OSD), and its sister SNIA OSD technical working group, were seeded by Gibson's CMU and NSIC/NASD research. In 1999 Gibson co-founded Panasas, a scalable storage system cluster vendor pioneering the commercial realization of object storage and targeted at Linux cluster computing.

Gibson's contributions to computer storage have been recognized by the prestigious 1999 IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Award for outstanding contributions in the field of information storage.