My Dad first told me about a news story in a Tamil magazine - a researcher at SRM university has landed a $280K job with Seagate in the US after inventing a method to pack Hard Drives with 30TB of data.

Here's one of the links to the story -
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_nano-find-lands-chennai-scholar-big-bucks-job-in-us_1357369