Tyrone Grandison leads the Data Disclosure Management team in the Computer Science department at the IBM Almaden Research Center. The group is focused on fundamental science that is relevant and applicable to industry verticals. The team has pioneered research in Data Mining, Data Privacy (such as the Hippocratic Database technology), RFID Data Management, and Privacy-Preserving Mobile Data Management. The team is also exploring novel concepts in content management and storage systems. Dr. Grandison received his M.S. from the University of the West Indies in Mona and his Ph.D. from Imperial College in London, England.

Karin Murthy is a post-doctoral researcher in the Intelligent Information Systems Research Group at the IBM Almaden Research Center. She received her Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Munich in Germany and has published several papers on databases and data mining. Her current research interests include the querying and mining of RFID data.

Ralf Rantzau is a software engineer at the IBM Silicon Valley Laboratory and is a member of the product development team for IBM's WebSphere RFID Information Center. Before that, he was a post-doctoral researcher in the Intelligent Information Systems Research Group at the IBM Almaden Research Center. Dr. Rantzau received his M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Stuttgart, Germany. His interests include databases, data mining, and security.