Professional of the Year - Information Technology/Research

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Tyrone W.A. Grandison

Title: Research Manager
Industry: Information Technology
Type of Organization: Computer Science Research Facility
Major Product/Service: Information Technology research and development
Expertise: With over 15 years of experience, Dr. Grandison specializes in data privacy and security. He creates fine-grained middleware to allow databases to adhere to privacy and security settings. Currently, Dr. Grandison serves as a Manager of Intelligent Information Systems with the IBM Almaden Research Center.
Geographic Area of Distribution: International
Affiliations: Senior Member, Association of Computing Machinery; National Society of Black Engineers; American Medical Information Association; Senior Member, I.E.E.E.; H.I.M.M.S.
University/Degree: Ph.D., Security, Trust for Distributed Systems, Imperial College, London, 2003
Hobbies/Sports: Writing poetry
Honors & Awards: Pioneer of the Year, N.S.B.E., 2009; Modern Day Technology Leader, B.E.Y.A., 2009
Published Works: Keynote Speaker, Data & Applications Security Conference; "Towards Improved Privacy Policy Coverage in Healthcare Using Policy Refinement", LDB Workshop on Secure Data Management, 2007; "Infinity: A Generic Platform for Application Development and Information Sharing on Mobile Devices", ACM MobiDE, 2007