Jennifer Roma Seberry (Wallis)

MSc, PhD, FACS, SMIEEE, FIMA, FTICA, CMath, FIACR, CSci, MACM,

COMPLETE 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. Ralph, 13 October, 1966 and Luke, 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

EXPERIENCE

Jan 1963 - Feb 1964 Computer Programmer, ICL Computers P/L.
Jan 1965 - Aug 1966 Secondary school teacher of mathematics and science to 
                    form 1 to 6 at Loreto College Kirribilli and North Ryde 
		    High School, N.S.W.
Feb 1967 - Jan 1968 Senior Tutor, Melbourne University
Feb 1968 - Jan 1970 Senior Tutor, La Trobe University
Feb 1970 - Jul 1970 Lecturer, Canberra College of Advanced Education
Jul 1970 - Aug 1973 Lecturer, University of Newcastle
Aug 1972 - Dec 1972 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Statistics, University 
		    of Waterloo (on leave from The University of Newcastle)
Jan 1973 - May 1973 Visiting Fellow, Department of Computer Science, University 
		    of Manitoba (on leave from The University of Newcastle)
Sep 1973 - Dec 1973 Visiting Associate Professor, Queen's University
Jan 1974 - May 1974 Visiting Associate Professor, SUNY at Buffalo
May 1974 - Aug 1976 Research Fellow/Senior Research Fellow, Mathematics, IAS, ANU.
Aug 1976 - Aug 1984 Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader, Applied Mathematics, U of Sydney 
Sep 1979	    Professional Associate, Dept. of Computer Science, University of 
                    Manitoba (for one month)
Sep 1980 - Dec 1980 Research Associate, Dept. of Computer Science, Concordia University 
		    (on leave from The University of Sydney)
Jan 1981 - Apr 1981 Visiting Fellow, Department of Statistics, University of 
		    Indore, India  (on leave from The University of Sydney)
Dec 1983 - Feb 1984 Visiting Professor, Mehta Research Institute, Allahabad, 
		    India  (on leave from The University of Sydney)
Aug 1984 - Jul 1987 Reader, Computer Science, The University of Sydney
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 1987 - Dec 1988 Visiting Professor, Computer Science, University of Sydney
Jan 1989 - Dec 1991 Honorary Associate, Computer Science, University of Sydney
Aug 1989 - Dec 1991 Professor, Computer Science, University College, ADFA
Jan 1989 - Mar 1989 Visiting Professor, Institute for Comparative Studies 
		    of Culture, Tokyo Joshi Daigaku, Tokyo (on leave from UNSW)
Mar 1989 - Mar 1989 Advanced Systems Institute Fellow, British Columbia, The University 
		    of Victoria, Victoria, Canada (on leave from UNSW)
Apr 1989 - Jun 1989 SERC Visiting Fellowship(GR/E 83870), based at Royal Holloway 
		    and  Bedford New College, Egham, Surrey (on leave from UNSW)
Sep 1991 - Jul 1992 Professor, Electrical Engineering, University 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
Aug 1992 - 	    Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Nebraska 
Jan 1994 - 1996	    Head, Department of  Computer Science, University of Wollongong

PROFESSIONAL ADMINISTRATION

  • Co-convener at First Australian Conference on Combinatorial Mathematics (Newcastle, 1972).
  • Chairman of Australian Academy of Science subcommittee which organised The First Australian International Conference on Combinatorial Theory (held in Canberra, August, 1977).
  • Director, AUSCRYPT'90, Sydney, January, 1990.
  • Director, Seventeenth Australasian Conference on Combinatorial Mathematics and Computing, Canberra, 1991.
  • Program Chair, AUSCRYPT'92, Gold Coast, November, 1992.
  • Program Committee, R.C.Bose Memorial Conference, Colorado Springs, USA
  • Program Committee, EUROCRYPT'93, Lofthus, Norway, 1993.
  • Program Committee, EUROCRYPT'92, Balatonfured, Hungary, May, 1992.
  • General Chair, ASIACRYPT'94, Wollongong, November, 1994.
  • Program Committee, CRYPTO'94, Santa Barbara, August, 1994.
  • Session Chair, SAC'94, Kingston, Ontario, May, 1994.
  • Chair, Honors Committee, International Association for Cryptologic Research, 1996-8.
  • General Chair, Third International Conference on Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing, Wollongong, December, 1996.
  • Program Committee, Cryptology and Information Security, Taipei, ROC, December, 1996.
  • General Chair, ACISP'96, Wollongong, November, 1996.
  • General Chair, ACISP'99, Wollongong, November, 1999.
  • General Chair, ISW'00, Wollongong, December, 1999.
  • Program Committee, INDOCRYPT'00, Kolkata, December, 2000.
  • Program Committee, INDOCRYPT'01, Chennai, December, 2001.
  • Program Co-Chair, ACISP'02, Melbourne, July, 2002.
  • Program Committee and Invited Speaker, Statistical Designs and Related Combinatorics, in honour of Professor Stratis Kounias, Athens, July, 2003.
  • Invited and Tutorial Speaker, Stream Ciphers and Forensic Computing , INDOCRYPT'03, New Delhi, December, 2003.
  • Program Committee, Statistical Applications, Hyderabad, 2004.
  • Program Committee, GlobeCom, San Francisco, December, 2003.
  • Program Committee, Vehicular Technology Conference Spring 2004
  • Program Committee, ACISP'04, Sydney, July, 2004.
  • Program Committee, ERACOM'04, Gold Coast, July, 2004.
  • Program Committee, ACISP'05, Brisbane, July, 2005.
  • Program Committee, ACISP'06, Melbourne, July, 2006.
  • Program Committee, INDOCRYPT'06, Kolkata, December, 2006.
  • Program Committee, ACISP'07, Townsville, July, 2007.
  • Guest Editor, Special Issue on Cryptography in Networks,International Journal of Networks and Security (IJSN)
  • Session Chair, ACNS'06, Singapore, June, 2006.
  • Session Chair, INDOCRYPT'06, Kolkata, December, 2006.
  • Program Committee, IAS07, Third International Security Symposium on Information Assurance and Security, Manchester, UK, 29-31 August, 2007.

    INVITED AND KEYNOTE LECTURES

    OTHER SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES

  • Referee for

    OTHER UNIVERSITY EXPERIENCE

    1976-     SAUT Executive.
    1979-     Elected member of the Academic Board, University of Sydney.
    1981-87   Elected Member, Academic Board, University of Sydney.
    1981-84   Member, Part-time Ph.D. Committee.
    1983-85   Member of Committee to Determine First Year Courses in Economics.
    1983-87   Member of many subcommittees of the Academic Board, University of 
              Sydney, to appoint professorial and lecturing staff in the Science
               and Engineering Faculties.
    1984-     Member of Subcommittee of University of Sydney Senate to organize 
              the celebration of the Centenary of the First Woman Graduate.
    1984-87   Supplementary Member Promotion Committee, University of Sydney
    1987-89   Member of many subcommittees of the to appoint professorial and 
              lecturing staff in the Science and Engineering Faculties, UNSW.
    1987-89   Promotion Committee, University of New South Wales
    1989-96   Faculty of Information Engineering Visiting Committee, Queensland 
              University of Technology
    1993 	  Informatics Faculty Representative, Equal Opportunity/Affirmative 
              Action Ctte, UoW
    1993      Executive Member, Graduate Faculty, University of Wollongong
    1993-5    Informatics Faculty Representative, Academic Senate, University of
               Wollongong
    1993-5    Elected Member, Academic Board, University of Wollongong.
    1994-5    Promotion Committee, Queensland University of Technology
    1994-6    Advisory Board, Centre for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical 
              Computer Science, University of Auckland
    1995-8    Promotions Ctte, University of Wollongong
    1995      Academic Senate Ctte on Postgraduate Supervision
    1995      Academic Senate Ctte on Stress in the Workplace
    1996-7    Marketing for University of W'gong in Indonesia
    1996-7    Promotion and Reclassification for General Staff Ctte
    2001-     Marketing for University of W'gong in India
    

    LEARNED SOCIETIES

    RESEARCH GRANTS

    l971 		ARGC 	$600 	Combinatorial algorithms 
    1982/84 	ACRB $12,500 	Higher dimensional matrices in cryptography
    				    and error correction coding
    1985  		ARGS $10,300 	Efficiency in encoding ...linguistic
    1985		 SCC  $3,435 	Computer Security
    1985/86		ACRB  $8,000 	DES algorithm  Non-Classified Security
    1986 	       ATERB  $9,000 	User unique keyboard authentication
    1987 		AGRS $10,300 	Coding to analyse RNA (A G Bromley)
    1987   	       ATERB  $9,000 	User unique keyboard authentication
    1988/90	       ATERB $20,000 	Intelligent Keyboard and operating system security
    1989/91 	 ARC$123,000 	Cryptographic Algorithms (J P Pieprzyk)
    1991-93 	 ARC$122,000 	Verification of Cryptographic Protocols (R.Safavi-Naini)
    1989-91      Telecom$455,000 	Centre for Communications Security Research,
    			          UC,UNSW,ADFA
    1991 		ATERB  $4000 	The Cryptographic Application of Bent Functions
    1991 		ATERB  $2000 	Security Extensions to the File Transfer Protocol 
    				( L Brown    J Pieprzyk)
    1992-94 	  ARC$207,000   Hashing Algorithms (1993 $70,600) (J P Pieprzyk)
    1992-94 	  ARC$280,000   Computer Security and Designs (A P Street)
    1993-4 	  U of W'gong $96,000 	Computer Security: Technical and Social 
    				Issues  Program Grant  
    1993-95 	  ARC$130,000 	Design of a Public Key Cryptosystem Secure
    				against chosen Ciphertext attacks (Y Zheng)
    1995-97 	  ARC$175,000 	Designs for Computer Security  (A P Street)
    1993      U of W'gong $21,000 	Computer Security Program Server  
    				Infrastructure A
    1993  Inst. Comb. and  $2,500   Hadamard Centenary Conference and Applications
    1994        Small ARC  $6,900 	T-seq constructed using cyclotomy
    1994 		ATERB   $3000 	Public Key Authentication Server (T. Hardjono)
    1994 		ATERB   $3000 	Cryptographic Applications of Bent Functions  
    				(X-M Zhang)
    1994 		ATERB   $8000 	Network Security (Y Zheng)
    1994 		ATERB   $3000 	Protocol Verification (R Safavi-Naini)
    1997-99 	  ARC$169,000 	Secure S-box Design for Computer Security 
    1995-6    U of W'gong $81,000   Centre for Computer Security Research -  
    				Program Grant  
    1997 	     Gauntlet  		Security Laboratory Research 
    1997 	    Omniguard 		 Security Laboratory Research 
    1995-6 	      Gemplus  $5,000 	Smart Card Software and Hardware 
    1997-99  	 ARC $176,000 	S-box Design for cryptographically Secure 
    				Algorithms (A P Street)
    1996-7 	  U of W'gong $69,000   Centre for Computer Security Research -  
    				Program Grant  
    1998-2000  Large ARC $165,000   Secure Strong S-boxes
    1998      U of W'gong $26,134   Centre for Computer Security Research -
                                    Program Grant
    1998             RIBG $20,000   Research Infrastructure
    1999-2001  Large ARC $150,000   Sequences for Secure and Reliable Comms 
    1999-2001  SPIRT/APAI $79,000   Elliptic Curves for Secure Communications
    

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