$280,000 a year job offer for Chennai patent holder

Chennai: Neither he is an IIM graduate nor a chartered accountant. R. Shivaraman is a nanotechnology researcher from Chennai, who has been hired by hardware manufacturer Seagate Technology at an annual pay packet of $280,000 (1.4 crore).

Jointly with C. Gopalakrishnan, who like him is also with the Nanotechnology Research Centre at the SRM University, Chennai, holds an Indian patent for an innovation that enables a hard drive to hold a large amount of data - 30 terabyte (TB) - as against the current storage capacity of 500 gigabyte.

On the occasion, Shivaraman said, "Patent under the U.S. law is awaited. Polymer templated lithography process which allows fabrication of patterned magnetic media with density of around 30TB."

According to him, the technology for ultra-high data storage is already available and his innovation scores over others in the time taken to fabricate the hard drives. "I brought an engineering solution to the problem. Using our technology one can make eight hard drives in a minute," said he.

Shivaraman is all set to join Seagate in December by which time he will get his doctorate in nanotechnology.