| Dr. Grandison is a Research Staff Member at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center. He received a B.S. degree in Computer Studies (Computer Science and Economics) from the University of the West Indies in 1997, a M.S. degree in Software Engineering in 1998 and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine in London. He then joined IBM at the Almaden Research Center in California, where he worked on data privacy and security. In 2010, he joined the Global Healthcare Transformation team as Program Manager for Core Healthcare Services. Dr. Grandison is an IBM Master Inventor, a Distinguished Engineer of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a Fellow of the British Computer Society (BCS), has been recognized by the National Society of Black Engineers (as Pioneer of the Year in 2009), the Black Engineer of the Year Award Board (as Modern Day Technology Leader in 2009, and Minority in Science Trailblazer in 2010, Science Spectrum Trailblazer in 2012) and has received the IEEE Technical Achievement Award in 2010 for "pioneering contributions to Secure and Private Data Management". He has authored over 70 technical papers and co-invented over 20 patents. |
