Jennifer Roma Seberry (Wallis)

MSc, PhD, FIMA, FTICA, FACS, CMath, SMIEEE, MIACR, MACM

SHORT VITAE

Professor and Former Head, Department of Computer Science.
Director, Centre for Computer Security Research, University of Wollongong.

PERSONAL DETAILS

Born:                13 February, 1944, in Sydney, Australia
Citizenship:         Australian
Two sons born 13 October, 1966 and 28 October, 1969
Languages:           English (fluent), French (written).

EDUCATION

B.Sc. University of N.S.W., 1966
M.Sc. La Trobe University, 1969
Ph.D. La Trobe University, 1971 (Computational Mathematics)
B.Ec. Two years completed, University of Sydney

RECENT EXPERIENCE

Aug 1987 - Aug 1989 Professor and Head, Computer Science, University College, ADFA  
Aug 1987 - Dec 1991 Director Centre for Computer Security Research, ADFA  
Jan 1989 - Dec 1991 Director Centre for Communications Security Research, ADFA  
Aug 1989 - Dec 1991 Professor, Computer Science, University College, ADFA  
Sep 1991 - Jul 1992 Professor, Electrical Engineering, U of Nebraska - Lincoln  
Sep 1991 - Jul 1992 Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, U of Nebraska 
		    - Lincoln  
Sep 1991 - Jul 1992 Director, Center for Communication and Information 
		    Science, UNL  
Jul 1992 - 	    Professor, Computer Science, University of Wollongong  
Jul 1992 - 	    Director, Centre for Computer Security Research, University
		    of Wollongong  
Jan 1994 - Dec 1996 Head, Department of  Computer Science, U of Wollongong

Has attended and spoken at numerous conferences here and abroad: given research seminars in many Australian, Asian, North American and European cities; chaired conference sessions in Canada, USA, Hungary, France, India, Switzerland.

OTHER SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES

Referee for promotions and appointments to Reader and Full Professor (many times) Australia, Canada, Norway, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, UK, USA. PhD Examiner Australia, Canada, India, Israel, Norway, USA. Grant Reviewer DEET, ARC and NSERC (approximately $4-5 million per year), NSF, NSA, FWF (Austria), Norway and Hong Kong.
Reviewer for Zentralblatt and Mathematical Reviews. Editor Ars Combinatoria, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, Australasian Journal of Combinatorics, Aequationes Mathematicae, Journal of Universal Computer Science. Honorary Editor of Special Issues of Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society, Discrete Mathematics.
Referee for many international Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics journals.

LEARNED SOCIETIES

Fellow of the Australian Computer Society,
Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and Its Application.
Founding Fellow of the Institute of Combinatorics and Its Application.
Member of the Combinatorial Mathematics Society of Australasia,
Senior Member of the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers,
Member of the Association for Computing Machinery.

OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION

While Professor of Computer Science at University College, Professor Seberry set up a Cryptography and Computer Security Group which was the nucleus for the Centre for Computer Security Research incorporating the Center for Communications Security Research.
Dr Seberry started reading in Cryptology and Data Security in about 1981 and has taught classes in the area each year since.
She has supervised 15 Honours theses in the area (10 of whom obtained First Class Honours). She has had ten successful PhD students and three sucessful Research MSc working on such topics as : "Security of Statistical Databases", "Active Intruder Detection: Some Aspects of Computer Security and User Authentification", "Analysis of the DES and the Design of the LOKI Encryption Scheme", "Applications of Cryptography for the Security of Database and Distributed Database Systems", "Speech Signal Analysis and Investigations in Cryptography" and "Constructing Orthogonal Matrices and some Cryptographic Techniques", University of NSW.
While she Directed the Center for Computer and Communications Security Research at ADFA it built a secure WAN for the University of NSW campus using the LOKI encryption algorithms and secure protocols developed within her group.
Another Centre member received a prize for a paper he wrote on ``Smart Cards".
Dr Seberry has co-authored six books and has two, { it Cryptography: An Introduction to Computer Security} with Josef Pieprzyk, and The Cryptographic Significance of the Knapsack Problem with Luke O'Connor published by Prentice Hall and Aegean Park Press respectively in 1988.
Especially interested in Authentication and Computer Security, Dr Seberry and her colleagues have received considerable media attention for their ATERB financed research into ``anti-hacking systems" or { it User Unique Identification}. One member of the Centre receiving the ``Young Australian of the Year Award for NSW" for his work on this project.
Professor Seberry has been a member of the committee to award the prestigious Australia Prize in 1994 for Remote Sensing and in 1996 for Telecommunications. She has been a member of the National Electronic Authentication Council of the NOIE in 2000-2001.
Dr Seberry has consulted for Telecom, Neology, the Commonwealth Bank, Hilti AG, Datamatic, Freehill, Hollingdale and Page of Sydney, Greenwoods and Freehills of Sydney, Bartier, Perry and Purcell of Sydney, Bowdens of Brisbane, Griffith Hack of Melbourne, the National Australia Bank, The State Bank of NSW, the State Bank of South Australia, The Privacy Commission of Australia, Integrated Research Pty Ltd, Microtel Inc, Transcrypt International Inc, Universal Systems Inc, Industrial Controls Inc, Austraclear, DataTech, XCP, and GET Systems.