Jennifer Seberry

Jennifer Seberry is an Australian cryptographer, mathematician and computer scientist, born in Sydney in 1944. She took her degrees at the University of New South Wales and La Trobe University, where she was the first higher-degree graduate in mathematics, and began her career in combinatorial mathematics. In 1980 she introduced cryptology teaching at the University of Sydney, the first such course at any Australian university. After moving to the University of Wollongong in 1992 she founded its Centre for Computer Security Research, one of the earliest of its kind in Australia, and directed it until she retired in 2015. With Lawrie Brown and Josef Pieprzyk she designed the LOKI block cipher family, and with Yuliang Zheng and Pieprzyk she co-invented the HAVAL hash function. Her mathematical work on Hadamard matrices and orthogonal designs connects to cryptographic design and to CDMA telecommunications. She supervised 31 doctoral students and holds the title of Emeritus Professor at Wollongong.