Charles Hallam Brenner is an American mathematician who is the originator of forensic mathematics.
His father Joel Lee Brenner was a professor of mathematics and his mother Frances Hallam Brenner was a city councilor and briefly mayor of Palo Alto, California.
[4] More recently, Brenner specializes in the use of mathematics in DNA analysis.
Brenner’s Symbolic Kinship Program,[7] which can for example assess the identification evidence based on DNA profiles from an anonymous body and an arbitrary set of presumed relatives, has been widely used in mass victim identification projects, including identifying about 1/3 of the identified World Trade Center bodies.
[8][9] Brenner played a key role in the resolution of the Larry Hillblom inheritance case, resulting in four Amerasian children each receiving $50 million.