About me
Project Manager, Security & Cryptography
Research lab: Zurich Research Lab
Phil Janson got a BS in EE from the U. of Brussels and MS, EE, and Ph.D. in Computer Science from M.I.T. From 1976 to 1996 he held a tenured lecturer position in Operating Systems at the U. of Brussels. In 1977 he joined the IBM Zurich Research Lab, where he worked initially on high-speed packet switches and the IBM Token Ring. In 1986 he worked on OS/2 LAN gateways at the IBM Development Lab in Austin, Texas. Back in Zurich in 1987 he managed several projects on heterogeneous networking and security. From 1995 to 1999 he headed a new Computer Science Department at the IBM Zurich Lab, which focused on IT security technologies, smart cards, pervasive computing and e-business. From 1995 to 2007 he was Relationship Manager for Europe between IBM Research and the IBM Financial Services Sector. In 1995 he was also elected to the IBM Academy of Technology, of which he was Vice President in 2000 and 2001. At the same time he was in charge of University Relations for the IBM Zurich Research Lab. From 2001 to 2003 was member of the Research Council of the Swiss National Foundation. Also since 2001 he is member of the Advisory Board of the Informatics & Communication Dept of the EPF Lausanne. In 2002 he left management to return to technical work in the area of Grid and Web Services security. In 2003 he became a Senior Technical Staff Member. From 2004 to 2007 he helped lead the Research Division’s Asset Transformation, aimed at leveraging Research technologies in IBM service offerings. Since 2007 he is back in management, overseeing projects in the area of cryptography. He holds a number of patents and wrote over 50 papers in the areas of IT security and distributed systems as well as a book on Operating Systems. He received a Harkness Fellowship in 1972, and a number of IBM Invention and Outstanding Technical Contribution Awards since then. He is a member of the ACM and of the IEEE Computer Society.
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Last updated 19 Jun 2008