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Note that you will find more up-to-date information on my LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/thomasgross.
Thomas Groß is a research scientist in the Security and Cryptography group of
IBM Research - Zurich (since 2006) and IBM's Research Relationship Manager for privacy
research (since 2008). Thomas has strong expertise in identity management,
security, privacy and applied cryptography. He is responsible for research in
identity governance. Thomas received his M.Sc. (Dipl. Inf.) in Computer Science at the Saarland University, Germany, in 2004.
He received his Ph.D. (Dr.-Ing.) from the
Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, in 2010. His thesis was on the formal verification of standardized identity federation.
Thomas is a member of the
GI,
ACM,
IEEE,
IACR and
EATA, as well as
Alumnus of the German National Academic Foundation.
My research interests are in information security and cryptography:
- Security and cryptography as well as security applications of formal methods in general
- Cryptographic protocol analysis, design, and proof in particular.
- Zero-knowledge proofs of knowledge and anonymous credential
systems.
- Identity federation in particular with browser-based protocols.
- 2009 Doctorate in Computer Science (Dr. Ing. eq. to Ph.D.)
at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory and the Ruhr-University Bochum. Defended 5 November 2009.
Thesis title: "Browser-based Identity Federation"
- 2009 Practical Competence in Transactional Analysis
at the Erich Berne Institute Zurich. November 2009.
- 2004 Diploma in Computer Science (Dipl. Inf. eq. to M.Sc.)
at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory and Saarland University.
Thesis Title: "Context-based Access Control".
- 1997 University-entrance diploma
- 2010 European Identity Award in the category innovation with IBM's Identity Mixer team.
- 2009 GI Innovation Award: Smart Identity Card.
"With the Innovation Prize, the German society for computer science (Gesellschaft für Informatik, GI)
honours hands-on innovations and patented inventions in the realm of computer science." The award honored the breakthrough in our Smart Identity Card project for strong authentication and privacy in eID.
- 2008 IBM Extraordinary Accomplishment: The Evolution from XML to Web
Services to SOA.
For my cumulated contributions in the analysis and security proofs of identity
federation protocols and standards. Defined by the IBM webpage as: "An
Extraordinary Accomplishment is one that has revolutionized an IBM Business or
a field of science, a unique innovation that the world recognizes as
special."
- 2005 IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award: Federated
Identity Management.
Defined by the IBM webpage as: "Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards
(OTAA) are granted to recognize outstanding achievements involving
exceptional technical skill and insight. These accomplishments typically
include a pioneer application of one or more principles to form a unique
product or sub-product, tool, process and/or procedure; or a major
contribution to a technology."
- 2005 IBM Research Division Award: Web Services Security Contributions
to WebSphere Application Server 6.0.
- 2003 IBM Research Division Award: Federation Manager (TFIM)
- 2003-2009 IBM Invention Achievement Awards (Fourth Plateau)
- 2010 Cloud Security Assurance
- 2009 Smart Identity Card
- 2008 Anonymous Credential Systems in Identity 2.0
- 2006-2007 User-centric Identity Management, Identity 2.0
- 2004-2005 Security for Federated Identity Management (SAML, WS-Federation, SXIP)
- 2003 Tivoli Federated Identity Manager (TFIM)
- 2002 DynADI Entitlement Service for Tivoli Access Manager
- ECRYPT - European Network of Excellency in Cryptology
- FIDIS - Future of Identity in the Information Society
- Martial Arts: Karate, Ju'Jitsu,
- Scuba Diving: Advanced Open Water Diver,
- Improviaional Theater/Live Role Playing Games,
- Music, and Literature
- German (mother tongue),
- English (fluently),
- French (advanced),
- Portuguese, and High-Arabian (beginner)
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