About me
CTO Security & Privacy
Associate Director Computer Science
Research lab: Watson Research Center (Hawthorne)
Dr. Charles C. Palmer is the CTO for Security and Privacy for IBM Research, and Associate Director of Computer Science at Watson. In these roles, he has broad responsibilities for the strategic initiatives and technical directions in the security and privacy areas across IBM Research.
Charles' current assignment is the Director of Research and Chair of the Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection (I3P) which is managed by Dartmouth College. Founded in 2002, the I3P is a national consortium of 28 universities, nonprofits, and national labs that is focused on doing funded research for the US Government in the area of cyber-security. For more information, see the I3P webpages and Dartmouth's announcement of Charles' new position there.
Prior to taking on these roles, he led the Security and Privacy departments at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center for several years. He continues to work with those teams and the teams at IBM's worldwide labs as well as with IBM's Software Group, Server Group, and Global Services organizations. For details on the security & Privacy research efforts around the world, see IBM's Research in Security & Privacy pages. One of those teams is the Global Security Analysis Lab -- also known as the "ethical hackers" -- which he founded in 1995. Palmer frequently speaks on the topics of computer and network security at conferences around the world. He holds several US and European patents and has several publications from his work at IBM and Polytechnic University.
Palmer is a member of the US Department of Homeland Security's Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Board where he chairs the emerging technology and applications subcommittee.
He is
also a member of the editorial boards for the IEEE Computer Society's Security & Privacy Magazine and the
upcoming International Journal of Information and Computer Security. He
was also an adjunct professor of computer science at Polytechnic University from 1993 to 1997. He was named a Distinguished Engineer of the ACM in 2006, and is also a member of the IEEE and IEEE Computer Society.
He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY, 1994, Dissertation title: An Approach to a Problem in Network Design Using Genetic Algorithms”, M.S. in Computer Science, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, 1984, and B.S. in Computer Science, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, 1978.
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Last updated 11 Jun 2007