Jennifer Roma Seberry (Wallis)
MSc, PhD, FIMA, FTICA, FACS, CMath, FIACR, SMIEEE, MACM
SHORT VITAE
Professor and Former Head, Department of Computer Science.
Foundation Professor and formerly 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
D.Sc. (Hons causa), La Trobe University, 2017
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 - Dec 2002 Director, Centre for Computer Security Research, University
of Wollongong
Jan 1994 - Dec 1996 Head, Department of Computer Science, U of Wollongong
Dec 2002 - Foundation Professor, Centre for Computer and Information Security Research, University 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 International Association for Cryptologic Research,
- 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 Australasian,
- Senior Member of the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers,
- Member of the Association for Computing Machinery.
- Member of the Association for Women in Mathematics.
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. She was the first person in Australia to teach security to
Australian university students.
- She has supervised 16 Honours theses in the area (10 of whom obtained First
Class Honours). She has had twenty seven successful PhD students and three
successful 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".
One of her students was awarded best student paper for her work on "Relative Compromise of Statistical Databases".
- Dr Seberry has co-authored ten books and has three on security, Cryptography: An
Introduction to Computer Security} with Josef Pieprzyk,
Fundamentals of Computer Security, with
J. Pieprzyk, T. Hardjono and J. Seberry,
and The
Cryptographic Significance of the Knapsack Problem with Luke O'Connor
published by Prentice Hall, Springer-Verlag and Aegean Park Press respectively in 1988.
She has published over 400 papers.
- 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 { " User Unique Identification"}. One member of the Centre
receiving the ``Young Australian of the Year Award for NSW" for his
work on this project.
- She collaborated in the submission for international reviews,
with the LOKI7 clock cipher, the HAVAL public key and hash function and the PY stream ciphers family.
- Dr Seberry, in 1976, obtained the first ever asymptotic existence
results for Hadamard matrices. She has now followed with asymptotic results for skew-Hadamard, symmetric Hadamard matrices, amicable Hadamard matrices
and some orthogonal designs.
- 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.
- Her basic research into amicable orthogonal designs was foundational for MIMO codes for mobile phones. Her work on CDMA codes is used in current multi-antennae communications.
- 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.